Employment Law Report

On May 22, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it has begun distributing additional relief funds to skilled nursing facilities hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Each facility with six or more certified beds will receive a fixed distribution of $50,000, plus a variable distribution of $2,500 per bed. Facilities must attest that they will only use these distributions for permissible purposes set forth in the Terms and Conditions accompanying the funds.