Florida Democrats Want HHS, CMS to Quickly Send Funds to Help Hospitals Deal With CoronavirusFlorida Daily / Kevin Derby / April 12, 2020Democrats in the Florida delegation in the U.S. House are calling on the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Department and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to quickly send funds to hospitals across the Sunshine State as the… Read more »
Frederica Wilson Announces Almost $7.8 Million in HHS Grants to Help Healthcare Centers Deal With CoronavirusFlorida Daily / Kevin Derby / April 10, 2020U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson announced that almost $7.8 million in U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Department funds were headed to her South Florida district to help residents deal with the coronavirus pandemic. The funds are part of… Read more »
Frederica Wilson, Florida Democrats on Capitol Hill Call on DHS to Stop Haiti Deportations Due to CoronavirusFlorida Daily/ Kevin Derby / April 8, 2020Insisting that Haiti does not have the healthcare resources to battle coronavirus, nine Democrats representing Florida in the U.S. House called on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reverse plans to deport Haitians who were… Read more »
Congresswoman Frederica Wilson asks Gov. DeSantis for vote-by-mail Miami Times / Staff Report / April 8, 2020Congresswoman Frederica Wilson sent a letter on Thursday, April 2 to Gov. Ron DeSantis asking him to mail absentee ballots and balloting materials to all registered voters in Florida and provide pre-paid postage and self-sealing return envelopes. The nation's voters are slated to… Read more »
ICE Urged To Take Action To Limit Spread of COVID-19 Among Employees & Detainees In South FloridaSouth Florida Caribean News / April 8, 2020MIAMI – Today (April 8), U.S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (FL-26), member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, led her colleagues on a letter to Deputy Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Matthew Albence to express… Read more »
Details Scarce About Coronavirus Cases at Florida Nursing Homes NBCMiami / Phil Praza / April 8, 2020More than 400 confirmed cases of COVID-19 are in Florida's long-term care facilities such as nursing homes, according to Wednesday's update from the state's Health Department, but despite many calls to release details about what facilities have cases, the state has limited its data to… Read more »
South Florida community health centers get millions for coronavirus responseSun Sentinel / Cindy Krischer Goodman / April 8, 2020FoundCare of West Palm Beach opened as the first drive-thru testing site in South Florida. In the weeks that followed, the federally funded community health center has tested hundreds of people for the virus and filtered thousands of phone calls from people… Read more »
A Haitian man, exposed to the coronavirus, was taken off ICE deportation flight at last minuteMiami Herald / Monique O. Madan and Jacqueline Charles / April 7, 2020A Haitian national who had been exposed to COVID-19 respiratory disease while in federal immigration custody was not among a group of detainees deported back to Haiti by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tuesday. … Read more »
Perdue urged to approve D-SNAPFlorida Politics / April 7, 2020Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson, joined by all of the delegation Democrats, is seeking enhanced assistance for their constituents impacted by COVID-19. The members wrote to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, urging him to approve the State of Florida's request to implement the Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance… Read more »
Wilson urges DeSantis to Help Ensure Florida Nursing Homes Follow CDC GuidelinesSouth Florida Caribbean News / April 7, 2020MIAMI – Congresswoman Frederica Wilson led a letter to Governor Ron DeSantis and Florida Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Mary Mayhew calling on them to take steps to safeguard the well-being of Florida's nursing home residents. Florida, which… Read more »
