{"id":7093,"date":"2021-07-30T22:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-fighting-for-additional-funds-for-georgias-rural-hospitals\/"},"modified":"2021-09-14T20:21:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T20:21:26","slug":"sen-ossoff-fighting-for-additional-funds-for-georgias-rural-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-fighting-for-additional-funds-for-georgias-rural-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Fighting for Additional Funds for Georgia\u2019s Rural Hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff urged the Department of Health and Humans Services (HHS) to allocate COVID relief funding to rural clinics and hospitals in Georgia and across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a letter addressed to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, Sen. Ossoff called for swift action to provide additional support for Georgia\u2019s rural hospitals and clinics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI write today to urge the immediate provision of Provider Relief Funds to rural clinics and hospitals and other rural health care providers in Georgia and nationwide,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff wrote in his letter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff has made it clear that fighting to support Georgia\u2019s rural hospitals is one of his top priorities. He previously&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sens-ossoff-warnock-announce-over-143-million-for-georgias-35-community-health-centers\/\">secured<\/a>over $143 million for Georgia\u2019s community health centers across the state through the American Rescue Plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/21.07.29_Ossoff-Letter-to-HHS-re-PRF-signed.pdf\">Click here<\/a>&nbsp;to read Sen. Ossoff\u2019s letter.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C&nbsp;\u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff urged the Department of Health and Humans Services (HHS) to allocate COVID relief funding to rural clinics and hospitals in Georgia and across the country. In a letter addressed to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, Sen. Ossoff called for swift action to provide additional [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7093","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/7093","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\/31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/7093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7365,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/7093\/revisions\/7365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}