I may be ahead of you but could we get a copy of the presentation sent to us? Thank you.

can the loan and grant programs for the ARPA money be used to cover the cost of staff salaries?

We will include the slides/ a summary in the first COVID-19 alert of this week. If you'd like it before then, feel free to drop your email in the chat!

Feel free to chat in your questions for Brendan, or your ideas for how Ohio should spend its ARPA funds.

o $ Loan and grant programs for nonprofits: example to advocate for would be programs to help nonprofit SNF fill the gap in Medicaid reimbursement as well as to help cover the cost of bed tax in nursing homes for empty beds given the SNF census

Is there an initial application process or printed criteria of what is considered eligible for reimbursement to nursing homes and assisted living facilities?

For the coverage of COVID-19 costs category in ARPA, there is a list of eligible cost categories. It is not exhaustive- will include in slides I send to Susan. Re: application processes, those would take place at the state/local level if those government create a cost coverage program.

Worth noting that the S/L rules includes in footnotes that state uses of the CARES $ last year is generally considered as eligible uses for this pot of money too.

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Coverage of agency nurses that were needed to properly staff the facility