Rural health centers to receive $5.5M in federal funding
U.S. Sen. Angus King announced Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration has awarded $5.5 million in grant funding to support several rural health care centers in Maine.
The grant recipients are:
Bucksport Regional Health Center in Bucksport, which serves approximately 8,000 people, will receive $1,572,131.
Fish River Rural Health and its two associated locations in Eagle Lake and Fort Kent, which serve approximately 4,000 people, will receive a total of $1,325,184.
Katahdin Valley Health Center and its five associated locations in Ashland, Houlton, Island Falls, Millinocket, and Patten, which serve approximately 10,000 people, will receive a total of $2,612,742.
The grant funding provided to KVHC, BRHC, and FRRH are annual awards in a three-year cycle and are funded through the Affordable Care Act.
“In a rural state like Maine, access to local, high-quality health care can often be a challenge,” King said in a press release announcing the grants. “By supporting the operations of these health centers in Aroostook, Hancock and Penobscot counties, this funding is helping to make health care more accessible for people who may otherwise have a difficult time finding it.”
Under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Health Resources and Services Administration is tasked with improving access to health care by building healthy communities, strengthening the healthcare workforce, and achieving health equity. The agency’s programs target the economic and medically vulnerable as well as the geographically isolated.
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