WASHINGTON, D.C. – 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 $5,338,167 in grant funding to support health centers across Maine.

“Access to high-quality, affordable health care is essential to the well-being of Mainers across the state and that’s why funding rural health centers is so important,” Senator King said. “These federal grants will continue to provide critical support for these facilities and help give people throughout rural Maine the care they deserve.”

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. 

These grants are part of an ongoing, multi-year funding process and help support the operations of the facilities.

The funding will be awarded as follows:

• Katahdin Valley Health Center, Patten, $3,090,429
• Maine Migrant Programs, Inc., Augusta, $1,100,148
• St. Croix Regional Family Health Center, Princeton, $1,147,590

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