{"id":29925,"date":"2026-05-20T14:33:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=29925"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:33:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:33:36","slug":"sens-ossoff-rev-warnock-strengthening-coastal-georgia-seniors-access-to-health-care","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sens-ossoff-rev-warnock-strengthening-coastal-georgia-seniors-access-to-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Sens. Ossoff, Rev. Warnock Strengthening Coastal Georgia Seniors\u2019 Access to Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Savannah, Ga.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff and Reverend&nbsp;Raphael Warnock are delivering&nbsp;resources to&nbsp;help&nbsp;Coastal Georgia&nbsp;seniors&nbsp;get health care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sens. Ossoff and Rev. Warnock brought Republicans and Democrats together to&nbsp;help&nbsp;Hospice&nbsp;Savannah purchase&nbsp;vehicles to&nbsp;provide reliable daily transportation for seniors&nbsp;in Coastal Georgia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hospice&nbsp;Savannah will use the Federal&nbsp;funding to&nbsp;purchase&nbsp;three minivans and one transit mid-sized bus to help seniors in Coastal Georgia&nbsp;get to the doctor and get the care they need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sens. Ossoff and Rev. Warnock are delivering $295,000&nbsp;for the project through bipartisan government funding legislation that became law on February 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur seniors should not have to struggle to access health care.&nbsp;Senator&nbsp;Reverend Warnock&nbsp;and I brought&nbsp;Republicans and Democrats together to make sure seniors in Coastal Georgia&nbsp;can get to the doctor and get the care they need,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve long fought to strengthen health care for our seniors, and I am proud to have worked alongside Senator Ossoff to secure federal funding for these vital projects throughout Coastal Georgia,\u201d<strong>&nbsp;said Senator Warnock.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cReliable transportation is essential to ensuring seniors can access care, stay connected to their community, and maintain independence,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>said CEO Dr. Kathleen Benton of&nbsp;Hospice&nbsp;Savannah, Inc.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cThis funding strengthens our ability to launch Georgia\u2019s first PACE program and expand access to integrated, person-centered care for older adults in our region.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Savannah, Ga.&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff and Reverend&nbsp;Raphael Warnock are delivering&nbsp;resources to&nbsp;help&nbsp;Coastal Georgia&nbsp;seniors&nbsp;get health care. Sens. Ossoff and Rev. Warnock brought Republicans and Democrats together to&nbsp;help&nbsp;Hospice&nbsp;Savannah purchase&nbsp;vehicles to&nbsp;provide reliable daily transportation for seniors&nbsp;in Coastal Georgia.&nbsp; Hospice&nbsp;Savannah will use the Federal&nbsp;funding to&nbsp;purchase&nbsp;three minivans and one transit mid-sized bus to help seniors in Coastal Georgia&nbsp;get to the [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29925","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29926,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29925\/revisions\/29926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}