Pennsylvania extends nursing home coronavirus response program
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HARRISBURG - Wolf administration officials said Thursday that Pennsylvania will extend a key feature of its response to coronavirus outbreaks in nursing homes, albeit on a scaled-down model after federal funding ran out in December.
The Regional Congregate Care Assistance Teams now will run through May, costing $6 million a month to support services such as testing, staffing and rapid response services for outbreaks, administration officials said. Some of that money is state aid that the Wolf administration expects to get reimbursed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The program — succeeding last year’s Regional Response Health Collaborative — had been scheduled to lapse at the end of February after the Wolf administration ran it for two months on a smaller scale.