A recent Wolf administration news release offered an update on the work of the state’s Regional Response Health Collaboratives.

Created in July to help long-term-care facilities address their struggles responding to the COVID-19 emergency, the state has six RRHCs led by 11 Pennsylvania health systems.  The RRHCs were created to provide clinical, operational, technical, and educational support to long-term-care facilities at a time when COVID-19-related deaths in such facilities accounted for more than 60 percent of all COVID-19 deaths state-wide.  With financial backing from the federal CARES Act, the RRHCs support nearly 2000 long-term-care facilities of different types at which more than 127,000 Pennsylvanians currently reside.

The RRHC program is scheduled to end on December 1.  State officials have asked the Trump administration for additional funding so the program can continue.

Learn more about the RRHCs, how they work, and what they do in this state news release.