AtlantiCare will receive $1 million as a result of the most recent federal spending bill, New Jersey’s senators said Friday.

Speaking outside University Hospital’s Emergency Department, U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, both D-N.J., highlighted nearly $12 million in federal funding for New Jersey hospitals and federally qualified health centers. The money was part of a $1.5 trillion federal spending bill signed into law Tuesday by President Joe Biden. Read More from Press of Atlantic City.