HHS Awards $10 Million to Expand Health Center Services for Farmworkers, Homeless

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HHS Awards $10 Million

to Expand Health

Center Services for

Farmworkers, Homeless

Health

and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt today announced grants worth $10

million to help 29 health centers serve more migrant and seasonal farmworkers

and people who are homeless.

“Today’s

awards will expand access to health care for an additional 65,000 migrant

farmworkers and homeless Americans,” Secretary Leavitt said. “People

served by health centers that these grants support are among the most

vulnerable and medically needy in America.”

Health

centers deliver comprehensive primary and preventive care to patients

regardless of their ability to pay. Charges for health care services are set

according to income, and fees are not collected from the poorest patients. In

a typical year, about 40 percent of health center patients have no insurance

coverage.

The

grants support President Bush’s multi-year initiative to expand the health

center system and strengthen the Nation’s health care safety net.

Launched in 2002, the goal of the President’s initiative is to increase

access to health care by creating new health centers or expanding services at

existing sites in 1,200 communities. With these grants, HHS’ Health

Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will have funded about 900 new

or expanded health center sites under the initiative.

The

nation’s 3,800 health center sites are expected to serve an estimated

14.6 million patients in 2006. That number represents a sharp increase from

the 10.3 million patients who received care at health centers in 2001, the

year before the President’s initiative began. The health center

program’s annual budget has grown from $1.16 billion to $1.74 billion

over the five-year period.

The

awards are part of the Consolidated Health Center Program, administered by

HRSA, which supports operations at community health centers, migrant health

centers, health care for the homeless centers, and public housing primary

care centers.

The

list of grant recipients follows:

Expanded

Medical Capacity for Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers

and Homeless Persons, FY 2006

Organization

City

State

Amount

Quality of Life Health Services

Gadsden

Ala.

$425,800

Clinica Adelante

Surprise

Ariz.

261,433

Clinica Sierra Vista

Bakersfield

Calif.

416,667

Darin M. Camarena Health Centers,

Inc.

Madera

Calif.

358,000

Golden Valley Health Center

Merced

Calif.

341,667

United Health Centers of the San Joaquin Valley

Parlier

Calif.

545,560

Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System

San

Calif.

186,667

North County Health Project

San Marcos

Calif.

83,333

Vista Community Clinic

Vista

Calif.

360,000

Collier Health Services

Immokalee

Fla.

400,000

Community Health of South Dade,

Inc.

Miami

Fla.

204,645

Suncoast Community Health

Centers, Inc.

Ruskin

Fla.

265,601

Community Health Partnership of Illinois

Chicago

Ill.

109,700

Proteus Employment Opportunities

Des Moines

Iowa

1,462

Intercare Community Health

Network

Bangor

Mich.

365,137

Coastal Family Health

Center

Biloxi

Miss.

206,522

Community Health Partners

Livingston

Mont.

171,438

Community Health Care

Bridgeton

N.J.

657,333

Southern

Jersey

Family Health

Hammonton

N.J.

315,000

Goshen Medical Center

Faison

N.C.

831,657

Greene County Health Care

Snow Hill

N.C.

800,000

Virginia Memorial Health

Center

Cornelius

Ore.

450,000

Community Health Centers of Lane County

Eugene

Ore.

441,667

La Clinica del Carino

Hood

River

Ore.

215,925

La Clinica del Valle Family

Health

Medford

Ore.

483,333

Little River Medical

Center

Little River

S.C.

270,907

Beaufort-Jasper Comprehensive

Health Center, Inc.

Ridgeland

S.C.

269,259

Moses Lake Community

Health Center

Moses

Lake

Wash.

401,672

La Clinica De Los Campesinos,

Inc.

Wautoma

Wis.

139,227

Total

$9,979,610

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