Through the fourth quarter of 2020, one business in Arizona City received $12 in health-related relief from the CARES Act issued by the Department of Health and Human Services.
According to numbers reported through the fourth quarter of 2020, businesses in Arizona received $1.5 billion in health-related relief from the CARES Act issued by the Department of Health and Human Services. The largest recipient of funding in the state was Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix with a total of $80.6 million. The state s average loan amount was $194,289.
Of the money distributed, $30 billion went out automatically to health providers based on previous year medicare payments. If the money wasn t returned within 90 days the provider is then automatically entered into the repayment terms that are issued by HHS. With the money going out automatically and the rules constantly changing, some of the businesses that received the money weren t eligible to receive it once the final rules were sent
Christina Duran/Tucson Weekly
On a recent Friday night,
Paul Madero walked into downtown s Fox Tucson Theatre mobile vaccination site following almost a month in the hospital thanks to a mountain bike accident. Madero s daughter, April Madero, had already gotten her family vaccinated, but was unable to get her father an appointment. April saw the Fox Theater offered vaccinations without an appointment and brought her father.
Madero, 65, did not have much hesitation as his daughter made the appointment for him. She s the one that made the appointment, so I figured it was safe, said Madero.
On recent Friday nights, as some people were heading home from their jobs and others were headed out for a night at now-open bars and clubs, the Fox opened its doors, not for a show, but to provide no-appointment walk-in Moderna vaccinations.
The team behind the vaccination clinic University of Arizona College of Nursing faculty and students with first-hand experience of the human cost of COVID-19 ran a vaccination clinic last weekend. Led by Kristie Hoch, UA clinical assistant professor and program administrator of the Nurse Anesthesia Specialty, volunteer Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) and student registered nurse anesthetists (SRNAs) administered vaccines to people at the drive-thru. For about 150 years, CRNAs have been preparing patients for anesthesia before surgical procedures, said Hoch. “We ensure patients are safe and comfortable during their anesthesia and this piece for us is part of ensuring our community is safe,” said Hoch, referring to vaccinations as part of that work.
By Mollie Jamison, Rylee Kirk, Izzy Koyama, Maya Leachman and Isaac Stone Simonelli/Special for Cronkite News
April 28, 2021
Veteran travel nurse David Ryan, who’s originally from New England, sits in his camper outside Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix after an unusually difficult 12-hour shift. “The only existence of us being there is to help them with the problems. So you don’t want to be the problems.” (Photo by Isaac Stone Simonelli/Special for Cronkite News)
While working on the road, David Ryan showers, cooks and sleeps in his camper. He tries to remain upbeat about his job, despite the toll it takes. “I’m very proud of being a travel nurse. I’m proud of coming in and being the help.” (Photo by Isaac Stone Simonelli/Special for Cronkite News)
Through the fourth quarter of 2020, one business in Wellton received $7,713 in health-related relief from the CARES act issued by the Department of Health and Human Services.
According to numbers reported through the fourth quarter of 2020, businesses in Arizona received $1.5 billion in health-related relief from the CARES act issued by the Department of Health and Human Services. The largest recipient of funding in the state was Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix with a total of $80.6 million. The state s average loan amount was $194,289.
Of the money distributed, $30 billion went out automatically to health providers based on previous year medicare payments. If the money wasn t returned within 90 days the provider is then automatically entered into the repayment terms that are issued by HHS. With the money going out automatically and the rules constantly changing, some of the businesses that received the money weren t eligible to receive it once the final rules were sent ou