Two Centre County facilities are slated to benefit from a bipartisan bill allocating more than $200 million to Pennsylvania hospitals and inpatient behavioral health facilities for the recruitment and retention of health care workers, reports StateCollege.com.
Mount Nittany Medical Center will receive $740,000 and The Meadows Psychiatric Center will receive $521,000.
The bill distributes $100 million to licensed acute care hospitals, such as Mount Nittany, and children’s hospitals on a per-bed basis. The funding can only be used for recruitment programs and retention payments for direct care staff.
Hospital executives, administration, contracted staff and physicians would not be eligible for payments. Read more.
