King announces grants for health centers

U.S. Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded a total of $5,748,561 in grant funding to support health centers across Maine. Among the recipients are Sebasticook Family Doctors, which will receive a little more than $263,000, and the Katahdin Valley Health Center, which will receive $1,258,247.

“Access to high-quality, affordable care can be difficult in rural states like Maine, which is why federal funding like this is so important,” Sen. King said. “This grant funding will support these rural health centers in their critical mission to make Maine’s communities healthier.”

Under the jurisdiction of HHS 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.