{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://case.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=747", "Case Announces $48 million In Federal Assistance For Additional Health Care Workers Brought To Hawaii To Assist With COVID-19", "2022-01-19", "2022", "2022-01", "Democrat", "House", "HI", "Ed Case", "C001055", "case.house.gov", "case", "https://case.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27&Page=23", "scraper", "(Washington, DC) \u2013 Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) today announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded $48 million to provide for surge medical staffing at local hospitals and clinics in fighting the current Omicron variant surge largely responsible for record COVID-19 cases throughout Hawai\u2018i.\n\n\u201cThis is great news for our severely overextended hospitals struggling with staffing shortages and health care workers closing in on two straight years of very difficult conditions as they continue to deal not just with record COVID cases but other often-deferred medical needs,\u201d said Case, a member of the House Appropriations Committee responsible for the funding of federal government agencies, departments and organizations.\n\nLast month, the state\u2019s Department of Health\u2014in consultation with health care facilities across Hawai\u2018i\u2014submitted a formal request to FEMA for 700 clinicians to return to Hawai\u2018i if COVID-19 threatened to overwhelm hospitals in the islands, as it now is. Since then, the state\u2019s request for surge medical staffing was updated to 955 clinicians to address the recent spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations because of Omicron.\n\nCase said the FEMA award will also assist the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (HIEMA) to fund emergency protective measures as a direct result of the pandemic.\n\n###\n\n(2)\n\n\u201cThis is great news for our severely overextended hospitals struggling with staffing shortages and health care workers closing in on two straight years of very difficult conditions as they continue to deal not just with record COVID cases but other often-deferred medical needs,\u201d said Case, a member of the House Appropriations Committee responsible for the funding of federal government agencies, departments and organizations.\n\nLast month, the state\u2019s Department of Health\u2014in consultation with health care facilities across Hawai\u2018i\u2014submitted a formal request to FEMA for 700 clinicians to return to Hawai\u2018i if COVID-19 threatened to overwhelm hospitals in the islands, as it now is. Since then, the state\u2019s request for surge medical staffing was updated to 955 clinicians to address the recent spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations because of Omicron.\n\nCase said the FEMA award will also assist the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (HIEMA) to fund emergency protective measures as a direct result of the pandemic.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:50:39Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://case.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=747"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7708482444286346, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}