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Hospitals say PPE and testing delays strain capacity; DHS outlines CARES payments to providers
Summary
Hospital and medical society representatives told the committee clinics and hospitals still face N95 and reagent shortages, long commercial-lab turnaround times and staffing strain; DHS described CARES Act allocations for direct-care workers, nursing homes, hospitals and housing/food assistance.
Representatives from the Arkansas Medical Society and the Arkansas Hospital Association told the Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee that shortages of N95s, gowns and testing reagents, plus multi-day turnaround times at commercial labs, are undermining contact tracing and stressing hospital staffing.
David Roten of the medical society said the organization has distributed PPE to private clinics but that N95 supply…
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