Maryland Lawmakers Announces Nearly $30M In Emergency Funding To Support Covid-19 Response

WASHINGTON (WJZ) — Maryland Lawmakers announced much than $29 cardinal successful exigency national backing to reimburse MedStar Health and Montgomery County Emergency Management for costs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Maryland’s hospitals, wellness providers, archetypal responders, and aesculapian professionals person enactment their information astatine hazard to assistance others during an unprecedented crisis,” the lawmakers said. “This national backing volition reimburse indispensable purchases they’ve made during this situation to assistance decision COVID-19, specified arsenic idiosyncratic protective equipment, aesculapian attraction and transportation, disinfectants, and investigating supplies to support those connected the beforehand lines safe. We invited this national enactment for our communities and, arsenic we proceed to combat this pandemic, Team Maryland volition support moving to unafraid further resources to enactment Maryland’s archetypal responders and healthcare heroes and put successful our nationalist wellness infrastructure.”

The grant totals to $29,512,215 and serves arsenic a full national cost-share reimbursement. The wealth comes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. It includes:

• $25,158,045 for MedStar Health
• $4,354,170 for Montgomery County Emergency Management

CBS Baltimore Staff