The San Marcos City Council made plans to redirect American Rescue Plan funds to aid CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital-San Marcos.
The council would take $500,000 from other programs that are set to be funded from the ARP to provide support and funding for clinical staffing costs in San Marcos.
“This (COVID-19) surge is also being felt in our hospitals and that’s the reason that this item is moving forward,” City Manager Bert Lumbreras said. “The surge is directly affecting CHRISTUS in a variety of ways in terms of their capacity, their staffing and certainly their financial constraints. With this surge, they have to resort to a number of ways to obviously address the needs and they have to respond. They’re like all of us. They want to do the very best they can in treating their patients and deal with the criticalness of the issue.”
