The package funded the Defense Department, Labor Department, Education Department and HHS through fiscal 2019. HHS received $90.5 billion in funding. Here are some of the provisions in the bill:
- $7.9 billion for the CDC
- $39 billion for the National Institutes of Health, a $2 billion increase over fiscal 2018
- $25 million for graduate medical education in states with projected primary care shortages
- $8 million for clinical training of sexual assault nurse examiners
- $23 million for State Maternal Health Innovation Grants to address gaps in maternity care and reduce maternal deaths
- $120 million for the Rural Communities Opioids Response
- $105 million for the National Health Service Corps to improve and expand substance use treatment programs
- $5 million for an initiative to address infectious diseases spreading as a result of the opioid epidemic
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