If you’re having trouble securing COVID-19 testing for your employees, you’re not alone. “With COVID-19 infection rates increasing throughout regions of the U.S. and new testing mandates being imposed at the state and federal level, hospice providers are experiencing difficulty accessing tests and covering costs for their frontline hospice workers,” the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization says in a release. NHPCO is asking Alex Azar for “$500 million in dedicated funding for test kits and rapid point-of-care testing machines,” according to a Sept. 14 letter from the trade group to the HHS Secretary. “This funding would be aimed at providing COVID-19 tests for hospice staff working in patients’ homes, nursing homes, facilities and assisted living facilities,” NHPCO CEO Edo Banach says in the letter.