{"id":1061368,"date":"2021-09-28T12:34:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T17:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1061368"},"modified":"2021-09-29T12:34:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T17:34:03","slug":"county-to-invest-4-5-million-for-retention-of-medical-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1061368","title":{"rendered":"County to invest $4.5 million for retention of medical workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/smithcounty-seal-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1061376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/smithcounty-seal-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/smithcounty-seal-2-175x175.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/smithcounty-seal-2.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>TYLER &#8212; The Smith County Commissioners Court Tuesday approved allocating $4.52 million \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 10 percent &#8212; of its American Rescue Plan Act funding to local hospitals and emergency rooms to be used to retain local medical personnel directly working with COVID-19 patients at medical facilities located in Smith County.  The Smith County ARPA funds will not be used to pay for traveling or contract nurses, according to a news release. $2 million each is designated to UT Health East Texas and Christus Trinity Mother Frances Health System to continue their efforts to retain staff and fight COVID-19 at the point of care, Smith County Judge Nathaniel Moran said. The court also approved $100,000 in funding for each of the three freestanding emergency rooms in Smith County. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smith-county.com\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/664\/97\">here<\/a> for lots more on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The Smith County Commissioners Court Tuesday approved allocating $4.52 million \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 10 percent &#8212; of its American Rescue Plan Act funding to local hospitals and emergency rooms to be used to retain local medical personnel directly working with COVID-19 patients at medical facilities located in Smith County. The Smith County ARPA funds will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1061368\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">County to invest $4.5 million for retention of medical workers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1061379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/smithcounty-seal-2-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"County to invest $4.5 million for retention of medical workers","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 15:43:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/smithcounty-seal-2-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"County to invest $4.5 million for retention of medical workers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1061368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061377,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061368\/revisions\/1061377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1061379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1061368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1061368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1061368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}