{"id":192782,"date":"2026-05-15T00:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192782\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T00:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:03:08","slug":"pennsylvania-senator-calls-on-fema-to-release-600-million-owed-to-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192782\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania senator calls on FEMA to release $600 million owed to hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tREPORTING IN WASHINGTON. I\u2019M AMY LU. NEW TONIGHT. PENNSYLVANIA SENATOR DAVE MCCORMICK IS CALLING ON FEMA TO RELEASE NEARLY $600 MILLION HE SAYS ARE OWED TO PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS. IN A NEW LETTER TO HOMELAND SECURITY, MCCORMICK SAID HOSPITALS EXPANDED CARE, PROTECTED WORKERS AND KEPT SERVICES RUNNING DURING THE PANDEMIC BASED ON A FEDERAL PROMISE OF REPAYMENT. BUT THAT MONEY NEVER CAME, HE SAID. THE UNPAID FUNDS H\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania senator calls on FEMA to release $600 million owed to hospitals<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769026991_958_wgal.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"WGAL logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 7:42 PM EDT May 14, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tU.S. Sen. Dave McCormick is calling on FEMA to release nearly $600 million he says is owed to Pennsylvania hospitals and health systems.  In a letter to the Department of Homeland Security, McCormick said hospitals expanded care, protected workers, and kept services running during the pandemic based on a federal promise of repayment, but that money never came.  He said the unpaid funds have created financial strain, forcing some providers to take on debt and delay upgrades.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick is calling on FEMA to release nearly $600 million he says is owed to Pennsylvania hospitals and health systems.  <\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the Department of Homeland Security, McCormick said hospitals expanded care, protected workers, and kept services running during the pandemic based on a federal promise of repayment, but that money never came.  <\/p>\n<p>He said the unpaid funds have created financial strain, forcing some providers to take on debt and delay upgrades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"REPORTING IN WASHINGTON. I\u2019M AMY LU. NEW TONIGHT. PENNSYLVANIA SENATOR DAVE MCCORMICK IS CALLING ON FEMA TO RELEASE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15065,4814,23070,4613,85824,40910,69258,23090,6111,8423,55016,85822,50254,28,30,29,5796,85823,85825,895,29763,11580],"class_list":["post-192782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-care","tag-department","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-dhs","tag-federal-promise","tag-fema","tag-health-system","tag-homeland-security","tag-hospital","tag-letter","tag-mccormick","tag-owed-to-hospitals","tag-pandemic","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-senator","tag-release-600-million","tag-repayment","tag-service","tag-u-s-sen-dave-mccormick","tag-worker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}