{"id":15720,"date":"2020-04-06T16:15:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T21:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=15720"},"modified":"2020-04-06T15:06:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T20:06:47","slug":"tennessee-governor-bill-lee-announces-10-million-in-small-rural-hospital-readiness-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/04\/06\/tennessee-governor-bill-lee-announces-10-million-in-small-rural-hospital-readiness-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Governor Bill Lee Announces $10 Million in Small, Rural Hospital Readiness Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-330575\" title=\"Tennessee State Government\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Tennessee-State-Government-2.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee State Government\" width=\"250\" height=\"74\">Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Today, Monday, April 6th, 2020, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced the State of Tennessee will allocate $10 million in Small and Rural Hospital Readiness Grants to support hospitals that are facing financial strain due to the ongoing response to Coronavirus (COVID-19).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_482711\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Coronavirus.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-482711\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-482711\" title=\"Coronavirus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Coronavirus-480x240.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus\" width=\"480\" height=\"240\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-482711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coronavirus<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmall and rural hospitals are critical to fighting COVID-19 and these grants will help complement federal aid dollars to ensure hospitals can continue delivering care through this crisis,\u201d said Governor Lee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese organizations not only provide care for existing needs but are also a key part of our efforts to build and maintain bed capacity during the expected surge of Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases,\u201d Governor Lee stated.<\/p>\n<p>The funds, capped at $500,000 per hospital, will be allocated from the state\u2019s FY20 COVID-19 response appropriation and distributed by the Tennessee Department of Finance &amp; Administration.<\/p>\n<p>For participating hospitals, the grants will serve as a bridge over the coming weeks while elective procedures are suspended and new federal funds are still processing. Applications are live today and can be accessed here: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/ecd\/rural-development\/small-and-rural-hospital-readiness-grant\" >https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/ecd\/rural-development\/small-and-rural-hospital-readiness-grant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the continually developing nature of the pandemic, the application will be held open for a month or until funds are expended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; Today, Monday, April 6th, 2020, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced the State of Tennessee will allocate $10 million in Small and Rural Hospital Readiness Grants to support hospitals that are facing financial strain due to the ongoing response to Coronavirus (COVID-19).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[12333,12675,12712,1089,549,284,261,9842,3350],"class_list":["post-15720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-bill-lee","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-grants","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-tn","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-finance-and-administration","tag-tennessee-governor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15721,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15720\/revisions\/15721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}