King Announces Over $5.7 Million to Support Health Centers in Rural Maine

Press Release

U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine) today 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.

"Access to high-quality, affordable care can be difficult in rural states like Maine, which is why federal funding like this is so important," Senator 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 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.

The funding will be awarded as follows:

Bucksport Regional Health Center, Bucksport, $261,620

Dfd Russell Medical Center, Leeds, $253,396

Eastport Health Care, Inc., Eastport, $234,076

Fish River Rural Health, Eagle Lake, $248,576

Harrington Family Health Center, Harrington, $248,290

Health Access Network, Inc., Lincoln, $274,314

Healthreach Community Health Centers, Waterville, $309,716

Islands Community Medical Services, Inc., Vinalhaven, $242,688

Katahdin Valley Health Center, Patten, $1,258,247

Maine Migrant Programs, Inc., Augusta, $246,268

Penobscot Community Health Center, Inc., Bangor, $392,680

Pines Health Services, Caribou, $270,216

Portland Community Health Center, Portland, $254,006

Regional Medical Center at Lubec, Lubec, $246,502

Sacopee Valley Health Center, Parsonfield, $251,556

St. Croix Regional Family Health Center, Princeton, $244,596

Sebasticook Family Doctors, Newport, $263,318

York County Community Action Corporation, Sanford, $248,496

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