Becker’s Hospital Review recently reported on the CDC’s initiative to spend $2.1 billion from the American Rescue Plan to help increase the nation’s infection control and prevention efforts.
The funds, which mark the largest federal investment in this sector, will begin rolling out in October with $500 million slated for nursing homes and long term care facilities facing COVID-19 outbreaks and labor shortages. The remaining funds are scheduled to roll out over the next three years. Some of that funding will help support state and local health departments address the rise in healthcare-associated infections by expanding lab testing abilities, training front-line healthcare workers, and supporting other programs focused on preventing the spread of infectious diseases. Additionally, about $900 million will fund healthcare providers, academic institutions and nonprofit organizations to establish new infection and prevention control measures.
CDC Director, Rochelle Walensky, MD, stated that “this funding will dramatically improve the safety and quality of the healthcare delivered in the U.S. during the pandemic. Funding will provide significant resources to our public health departments and healthcare systems and opportunities to develop innovative strategies to protect every segment of the U.S. population, especially those disproportionately affected by the pandemic, at a time that they are hit hard.”
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