The North Country Family Health Center has received a $1 million award from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services to expand on its main facility at 238 Arsenal St. Congress extended the Sanders provision previous year with bipartisan support. It will also provide more individuals and families with access to health care by allowing UGL to add additional health care providers.
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Health centers will use this funding to increase their patient capacity and to provide additional comprehensive primary and preventive health services to medically under-served populations in California.
In 2006, fewer than 10 percent of Vermont residents received their health care at Federally Qualified Health Centers.
“The department said in a news release Wednesday that the funding is for facility renovation, construction or expansion”.
The Battenkill Valley Health Center, in Arlington, has been awarded $1,000,000 in funding, U.S. Sen.
The project will reduce congestion, improve patient flow, enhance provider productivity, allow for more hours of service, improve the exchange of information between patients and their health care team and eliminate space issues.
Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers has been awarded a $1 million federal grant to expand its operations. That’s the Thunder Bay Community Health Service in Hillman, which will receive one million dollars from this grant.
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“Access to good health care – from treatment to nutrition education – is essential to help residents of Flint recover from possible health impacts of lead exposure”, Lurie wrote in a press release. Today, almost 1,400 health centers operate about 9,800 service delivery sites in every US state, D.C., Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Pacific Basin.
