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    January XX, 2021

    Honorable Charles E. Schumer Honorable Mitch McConnell


    Majority Leader Minority Leader
    United States Senate United States Senate

    Honorable Nancy Pelosi Honorable Kevin McCarthy


    Speaker of the House Minority Leader
    U.S. House of Representatives U.S. House of Representatives

    Dear Congressional Leaders:

    We appreciate your leadership in this time of unprecedented national crisis and thank you for your
    actions to strengthen America’s health care infrastructure with desperately needed financial support.
    As you know, our hospitals canceled hundreds-of-thousands of elective surgeries and non-emergent
    patient tests last spring at the government’s request to help assure adequate hospital capacity. As the
    coronavirus rages across the country with record case counts being eclipsed nearly every day, our
    hospitals are facing new and increased challenges that put significant stress on our resources. In many
    parts of the country there is a severe and growing shortage of nurses and other caregivers requiring
    additional funding to address.

    The expanded accelerated and advanced payment policy for Medicare providers, as authorized in
    Section 3719 of the CARES Act, has been a helpful financial tool allowing us to maintain essential
    medical services for all patients. However, because of mounting expenses caused by the dramatic and
    growing spread of the coronavirus, we write to you today to respectfully request that Congress
    convert to federal grants all the accelerated and advanced Medicare loans made to hospitals and
    other providers. We ask you to make this policy change as soon as possible. Unless these loans are
    converted to grants, hospitals will likely face an insurmountable financial crisis as COVID-19 ravages
    the nation. It is not an overstatement to say that some will be forced to close, thus pushing the capacity
    of those that remain to even greater strains. In rural communities, the threat of closure is real – and the
    downstream effect to communities would be catastrophic, well beyond the scope of the pandemic.
    Those that do not close could be forced to significantly reduce health care services over the next
    several months.

    While the $178 billion provider relief fund has been helpful, it is inadequate to compensate for our
    mounting losses.

    As you know, these Medicare loans have very stringent accountability requirements and assure that
    funds are used only for COVID-19 losses and expenses. These loan programs also provide Congress
    and the public with complete transparency. Funds not used for COVID-19 losses and expenses would
    be returned to the federal treasury.

    Thank you for consideration of this request. We stand ready to work with you in every way to support
    our men and women on the frontline caring for those with the coronavirus. These heroes need to know
    that the nation will provide whatever it takes to assure they will have the resources to continue the
    battle.

    Sincerely,

    1
    Health Systems Enloe Medical Center
    California
    Advent Health
    Florida FMOL Health System
    Louisiana, Mississippi
    Adventist Healthcare
    California Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health
    System
    Advocate Aurora Health Louisiana
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    Garnet Health, (formerly Greater
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    Kentucky New York

    AtlantiCare Health System Gonzales Healthcare Systems


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    CentraCare Kettering Health Network


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    Loma Linda University Health
    Effingham Health System California
    Georgia
    Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare
    Emory Healthcare Tennessee
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    Mon Health System
    West Virginia
    2
    Mountain Health Network
    West Virginia Rush Health Systems
    Alabama, Mississippi
    Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center
    Alabama Salem Health
    Oregon
    Northeastern Health System Sequoyah
    Oklahoma
    Samaritan Health Services
    Oceans Healthcare Oregon
    Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas
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    4
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    Oregon Arkansas
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    5
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    Colorado Mississippi

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    Connecticut South Dakota

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    Idaho Illinois

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    Alabama New York

    Hill Hospital of Sumter County Neshoba County General Hospital


    Alabama Mississippi

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    Michigan Missouri

    Northern Maine Medical Center


    Hobbs Hospital (FKA Lea Regional Medical Maine
    Center)
    New Mexico Okanogan County Public Hospital District #3,
    dba Mid Valley Hospital
    Illinois Valley Community Hospital Washington
    Illinois
    Okeene Municipal Hospital
    Jackson County Hospital District Oklahoma
    Florida
    Olympia Medical Center
    Kaleida Health California
    New York
    Olympic Medical Center
    Keefe Memorial Hospital Washington
    Colorado
    6
    Pomerene Hospital Contact:
    Ohio
    Lourdes Baez
    San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital Assistant VP, Government Relations
    California Baptist Health
    Kentucky
    Shepherd Center 502-253-4801
    Georgia
    Sarah Lechner
    St. Anthony Regional Hospital Senior Vice President, Chief of Government
    Iowa Affairs & Advocacy
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    Oklahoma Chief Advocacy and Government Relations
    Officer
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    Director, Government Affairs
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    New Mexico

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    Texas

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    Georgia

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    Texas

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    North Dakota

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