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Extra pay For Kansas nurses approved by pandemic response panel

By NPR / Associated Press  
   September 13, 2021

Kansas hospitals will receive $50 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds for extra pay for nurses to keep them on the job but will be required to report monthly on how many nurses they’ve lost and why under a plan approved by a state task force.

Kansas law required a bipartisan pandemic response task force to spell out how the $50 million would be spent, and the task force added the reporting requirement.

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