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Challenges Face Minnesota's Hospitals, Healthcare Workers
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April 2, 2020
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1:33:33Now PlayingThe newly-formed Senate COVID-19 Response Working Group held its inaugural teleconference meeting Thursday, April 2, to learn more about the needs of hospitals and long-term care facilities in grappling with the coronavirus pandemic. Testifiers spoke of the funding challenges for hospitals, particularly in rural parts of the state, the lack of personal protective equipment for health care staff and the need for a temporary change to allow doctors and nurses from other states to practice in Minnesota as the crisis grows.
The panel’s lead, Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka, concluded the meeting by vowing to address those concerns as well as whether worker’s compensation should be expanded to cover front-line workers who contract the disease and further guidance on the handling of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities.
The eleven-member panel, comprised of six Republican members and five DFL members, will convene again Friday, April 3, at 11:00 a.m. to learn more about the economic impacts of the pandemic on businesses throughout the state.
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