Agenda - 05-19-20; 6-b - Coronavirus Relief Funding Summary Report and Approval of County Plan

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13 House PCS 1043 Page 4 o $6M for Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine for community testing initiatives, community-based health care treatment, monitoring rural populations, educating health professionals on best practices, and supporting rural community primary care. o $20M to Wake Forest University Health Services to expand COVID-19 study to include syndromic surveillance and representative sample antibody testing for near-real-time virus data. o $20M to DHHS for local health departments, rural health providers, State Laboratory, and behavioral health and crises services for increasing nurses, community health workers, telehealth services, infection control support in nursing and adult care homes and diverting behavioral health emergencies. o $6M to DHHS to allocate equally among each of the six food banks in the State and encourages food banks to use North Carolina-based farmers and vendors. o $290k to DHHS, Division of Social Services, to provide funds for the LINKS program, a foster care support program for youth ages 13-21 years. o $25M to DHHS for State-County Special Assistance-licensed facilities to offset increased costs of serving residents during the COVID-19 emergency in the amount of $1325/resident as of 4/l/20. o $50M to DHHS for rural and underserved communities for health provider grants, Medicaid assistance for rural hardship grants,enhanced telehealth services,critical services transportation, health care security for uninsured, and related items. o $5M for NC Association of Free and Charitable Clinics for cost of eligible health services provided during the COVID-19 emergency. o $1.5M to DHHS to provide a grant to NC MedAssist to offset increased costs for prescription assistance for indigent or uninsured individuals for the COVID-19 emergency. o $5M to the NC Community Health Centers Association for cost of eligible health services provided during the COVID-19 emergency. o $25M to DHHS to expand public and private initiatives for COVID-19 testing, contact tracing, and trends tracking and analysis,provided the requirements in Section 4.10 of this act are met. o $20M to DHHS to provide funds to support behavior health and crisis services to respond to COVID-19. o $19M to DHHS to provide for food banks, support for residential settings incurring additional costs to mitigate COVID-19 positive cases, adjust and child protective services response, support for homeless and domestic violence shelters, child care response, NCCARE360, and technology changes to support emergency relief to beneficiaries. o $1.8M to Old North State Medical Society for rural and African American communities to address COVID-19 disparities. o $65M for a grant to NC Healthcare Foundation for grants to hospitals designated by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services as critical access hospitals or non-critical access rural hospitals to offset response care for COVID-19.