Columbus (OH) Dispatch (7/16, Narciso) reports congressional lawmakers have “appropriated $2.6 trillion in CARES Act Provider Relief Funds to help the country deal with COVID-19 hardships.” Nearly “half, $1.2 trillion, has gone to individuals, businesses, health care providers and state and local governments, according to an analysis by the Government Accountability Office ending May 31, 2020.” Data show “nursing homes have received about one-third of 1% of that funding.
Assisted-living facilities – nothing.” However, “Ohio Department of Health figures show long-term care facilities, which include assisted-living, have suffered more than two-thirds of the state’s COVID-19 deaths.” The article says an HHS spokesman “disputed the GAO data and.