Public Health

These supports are providing the ongoing tools needed to address COVID-19 and investing in Rhode Island's healthcare system, including hospitals, nursing homes, and public health centers.

To alleviate the financial hardship of the pandemic, the State distributed grants to each nonprofit and for-profit hospital in accordance with a formula provided by the Rhode Island General Assembly.

These funds are supporting the Department of Health's COVID-19-related activities, including communications, quant/data and analytics, testing, and contact tracing.

These funds are supporting the Department of Health's COVID-19-related activities, including communications, quant/data and analytics, testing, and contact tracing.

The program is aimed at mitigating the effects of the public health emergency unwinding by auto-enrolling eligible individuals into a qualified health plan through HealthSource Rhode Island and effectuating that coverage on their behalf by paying the premium for the first two months.

The State provided a grant to the Free Clinic to improve statewide access and quality of primary care for uninsured adults and to increase access to dental care for uninsured adults.

The project provided grants in two phases to Rhode Island nursing facilities to support the operations and direct care workers at these facilities. The grant amount was based on the number of Medicaid bed days a facility had out of the total number of Medicaid bed days for all nursing facilities.

These funds are supporting the Department of Health's COVID-19-related activities, including communications, quant/data and analytics, testing, and contact tracing.

The funds are providing for storage of personal protective equipment and other supplies at two state-operated facilities. Costs include, but are not limited to, lease payments and wages for workers operating the warehouses.

The project provided a direct award to the Rhode Island Health Center Association to distribute grants to eight federally qualified health centers intended to restore and support community health center employment through worker retention incentives.

The State provided a grant to Open Door Health to acquire land to expand its physical capacity and therefore the number of people it serves.