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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(1) The Department of Health shall:
(a) Promulgate rules and regulations to govern the administration of the program;
(b) Make every effort to expend the funds appropriated to the program established in sections 41-14-1 through 41-14-11 by October 30, 2020;
(c) Require recipients of funds under this program to certify that there is a need to add intensive care units, isolation rooms or negative pressure rooms at the facility receiving funds;
(d) Require recipients of funds under this program to certify that the facility adding intensive care units, isolation rooms or negative pressure rooms can adequately staff such units or rooms; and
(e) Certify to the Department of Finance and Administration that each expenditure of the funds appropriated to the Department of Health under sections 41-14-1 through 41-14-11 is in compliance with the guidelines, guidance, rules, regulations and/or other criteria, as may be amended from time to time, of the United States Department of the Treasury regarding the use of monies from the Coronavirus Relief Fund established by the CARES Act.
(2) No individual hospital shall receive more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the funds appropriated to this program.
(3) The Department of Health may retain up to Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) of the funds appropriated to the program established in sections 41-14-1 through 41-14-11 to pay reasonable expenses incurred in the administration of the program.
(4) Out of the funds appropriated to this program, the Department of Health shall expend twenty percent (20%) or more of such funds for hospitals in Mississippi that are either designated as a Level III Trauma Center or a Level IV Trauma Center.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Mississippi Code Title 41. Public Health § 41-14-5 - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ms/title-41-public-health/ms-code-sect-41-14-5/
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