Clinics will have flexibility to use these funds to address the particular healthcare access needs of each community, including improving primary care and substance abuse treatment.
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HHS announced almost half a billion dollars in Health Center Expanded Services awards, including approximately $350 million for 1184 health centers to increase access to services such as medical, oral, behavioral, pharmacy, and vision care.
The funding is provided by the the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Partners are in 6 communities across Northwestern Ohio, and they hope to have comprehensive services at all sites. The awards include approximately $350 million for 1,184 health centers to increase access to services such as medical, oral, behavioral, pharmacy, and vision care.
The government-backed health centers, which have expanded massively under the Affordable Care Act, have been put into a new political context this summer as Republicans in Congress try to defund Planned Parenthood.
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These awards will allow centers to hire more health providers, improve facilities, and enroll more Ohioans in health care coverage, he said. The other $150 million will go to facility renovation, expansion and construction to help increase patient and service capacity in 160 health care centers. “Republicans are arguing that the 1,300 community health centers nationwide could absorb the millions of women who could lose their doctors if Planned Parenthood loses its federal or state funding”.
