Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday introduced $140 million in federal grants to Illinois Medicaid suppliers to lend a hand offset sudden prices associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Across the state, federally funded well being facilities “have been performing heroically on the frontlines of this pandemic since the very first patient showed up with COVID-19, and they haven’t stopped despite months and months of truly grueling work and difficult circumstances,” Pritzker mentioned all through a information convention on the Howard Brown Health Center in Englewood. The grant cash is from the coronavirus reduction invoice, the $2.2 trillion financial stimulus packaged signed into legislation previous this yr. Theresa Eagleson, director of the state Department of Healthcare and Family Services, mentioned just about