CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Governor Albert Bryan has approved $20 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding to give Schneider Regional Medical Center on St. Thomas and Juan F. Luis Hospital on St. Croix.
The $10 million for each, hospital is to support staff recruitment and retention efforts and to upgrade their IT systems to more efficiently track patients and improve medical coding and billing systems, Governor Bryan said.
“… In addition to the $100 million we have put forth in the last two years, we’re making an extra push at both of our hospitals to make sure we’re attracting personnel permanently to our hospitals, and while we do that, that we have the level of funding able to retain the nurses, respiratory therapists and other professionals that we have currently.”
