Fox News has learned Children's hospitals across the country are experiencing "catastrophic losses" after stepping up to help in theCOVID-19fight, and they are calling on the Department of Health and Human Services for urgent help.
The leaders of some 76 children's hospitals across the country wrote a letter Tuesday to HHS Secretary Alex Azar, suggesting that "failure to provide immediate relief to children’s hospitals will weaken our infrastructure and risk our current capability to care for all the nation’s children."
Hospitals backing the letter includes many of the largest children's care facilities in the nation, as well as those in our nation's capital.
Much like the general hospitals and health care centers across the country, children's hospitals also devoted space and resources to coronavirus patients, suspending nonessential treatments in some cases and generally assisting where possible.
Children's hospital presidents and CEOs nationwide said in the letter, "America’s children’s hospitals have experienced an over 40 percent decline in revenues and are currently incurring approximately $2 billion in losses per month."
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