Delegation announces $115.4 million for rural hospitals and health care providers

WASHINGTON D.C. — U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) announced with Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) that New Hampshire rural hospitals and health care providers will receive $115.4 million in a third installment of federal grants established under the bipartisan Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act that was passed by Congress and signed into law. In total, the law includes $100 billion for health care providers. The first $30 billion was disbursed to providers throughout the country earlier this month and included $164.5 million for those in the Granite State. In a second allotment announced earlier this week, New Hampshire providers received nearly $16 million, and an additional $10.8 billion from that tranche of funding will be soon be made available for providers in New Hampshire and across the country.

By standing firm in negotiations on the COVID-19 response legislation signed into law last week, Senator Shaheen and the delegation helped secure an additional $75 billion in funding for health care providers that are providing frontline treatment to COVID-19 patients.