Schumer secures $3.4 million for Jones Memorial Hospital

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer has announced that he successfully included legislation that renews and extends two hospital programs for 5 years. Schumer said the recently passed budget deal includes the extension of the Low-Volume Hospital (LVH) and Medicare-Dependent Hospital (MDH) Programs, both of which are essential to the health of rural hospitals across Upstate New York. Schumer said both programs are vital for the hospitals in rural New York, which are often under serious financial pressure due to a lower volume of patients and a higher percentage of Medicare beneficiaries than their urban and suburban counterparts. Both programs expired last year but were major components of the recently announced budget deal, which included a five-year extension of both programs and includes revisions that could increase payments to some New York hospitals in the Low Volume Hospital program and add additional hospitals to the program.