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Thursday, June 26, 2025

HHS provides $2 million to businesses in Centralia under CARES Act

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Through the fourth quarter of 2020, businesses in Centralia received $2 million in health-related relief from the CARES Act issued by the Department of Health and Human Services.

According to numbers reported through the fourth quarter of 2020, businesses in Illinois received $5.2 billion in health-related relief from the CARES Act issued by the Department of Health and Human Services. The largest recipient of funding in the state was Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation with a total of $316 million. The average loan size in the city was $62,621 while the state's average loan amount was $335,543.

Of the money distributed, $30 billion went out automatically to health providers based on previous year medicare payments. If the money wasn't returned within 90 days the provider is then automatically entered into the repayment terms that are issued by HHS. With the money going out automatically and the rules constantly changing, some of the businesses that received the money weren't eligible to receive it once the final rules were sent out.

According to the Department of Health and Human Services, this information represents the list of providers that received a payment from the General Distribution, High Impact Targeted Allocation, Safety Net Hospitals, Non-Medicare, Rural Targeted Allocation and/or the Skilled Nursing Facility Targeted Allocation of the Provider Relief Fund and who have attested to receiving one or more payments and agreed to the Terms and Conditions as of July 8, 2020.

All PPP loan recipients
RankBusinessDollar Amount Received
1Kaskaskia Workshop, Inc.$705,949
2Orthopaedic Center of Southern Illinois, Ltd.$425,090
3Penta Group, Inc.$271,443
4Community Resource Center$59,489
5Heritage Woods of Centralia, LLC$48,015
6Naeem a Khan School, M.D.$46,707
7BWDC Medical Equipment Company$44,640
8Sajjan K Nemani School, M.D.$43,842
9Ambulatory Surgery Center of Centralia, LLC$35,290
10Syed Shah$35,034
11Penta Nascent Corp$34,561
12Skin Care Center of Southern IL, LLC$29,663
13Thomas H. Nolen, P. C., D.P.M.$29,655
14Rajendra Shroff$28,584
15DR Shrestha School, M.D.$26,159
16Byrd Watson Drug Co$25,746
17Stephen T ANG School, M.D.$21,601
18James L Schutzenhofer LLC, M.D.$18,998
19Balavittal Varanasi$17,826
20Joel Barrientos$12,656
21Mark Murfin$10,860
22Maamoun Junidi$9,056
23Bernard Rerri$7,389
24Leslie Williams APN, LLC$4,224
25B C Stufflebam, LLC, M.D.$3,402
26County of Marion$2,855
27Robin L Johnson, OD$2,607
28Dermcare Healthcare Clinic, LLC$1,082
29Lyons Clinical Counseling & Associates, P.C.$777
30Berger Chiropractic Office, LLC$524
31Morton-Wuebbels Pharmacy, Inc.$115
32James B. Stiehl, PC, M.D.$21

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