WASHINGTON – 
UPMC Chautauqua is getting $10.37 million in federal funding in an effort to address patient healthcare, regardless of insurance, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Late last week the state’s two Senators in Washington – Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand – announced that Upstate New York’s ‘safety net’ hospitals, which provide healthcare to patients in need regardless of insurance, will receive a total of $290,730,000 in health system funding allocated by Health and Human Services. The federal assistance comes as healthcare providers across the state face financial difficulty due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.
Schumer and Gillibrand explained that while hospitals in Upstate New York were extremely busy as the frontline defense against the virus, many health systems saw a significant decrease in earnings as revenue-creating services, such as elective surgeries, were put on hold to help combat the pandemic.
As part of the funding allocation, Brooks-TLC Hospital in Dunkirk will also receive $5,000,000.
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