Government Funding

The bills would offer new grants for health centers and clinics to hire staff and stay open longer, create a loan repayment program for health-care providers focused on areas with severe shortages, and increase Medicare payments to rural hospitals.

Mayor Harris’ team has to sell the Shelby County Commission on a funding plan, and it’s going to be a hard sell. Part of the plan includes the possibility of increasing the wheel tax, which was originally created as a “temporary” tax to generate revenue. But everyone who owns a car in Memphis and Shelby County has been paying the wheel tax since 1987.

The preliminary request for the State of Minnesota to support the university's health system, UMN Health, aims to acquire flagship healthcare facilities — the University Medical Center East and West Bank facilities, Masonic Children's Hospital and its clinics and surgery center — and operate those facilities.

It allocates $144.3 billion in discretionary funding to the agency, up from $127.3 billion in 2023.

The $6.8 trillion dollar proposed budget also includes $32 million allocated to train nurse faculty and $28 million for innovative approaches to “recruit, support and train” the next generation of health care providers.

Some of the funding will be used to renovate Rome Memorial Hospital's surgical services.

People with intellectual and developmental disabilities are traditionally excluded from clinical trials under the assumption they can't provide informed consent.

The move would significantly alter the university's relationship with Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services amid its proposed merger with Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health.

The bill passed overwhelmingly, though some members made it clear that the $80 million is nothing more than a “Band-Aid.”

More than a fourth of the funding -- $119 million -- is earmarked for the Department of Health Care Services for 98 organizations to help with Medi-Cal's delivery system.