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 $4,973,954 to community health centers across Maine.

“Maine’s health centers are essential to advancing quality care and ensuring the continued health of our communities,” Senator King said. “This funding will support these facilities as they work to improve health services across Maine, and I commend the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on this significant investment.”

The funding will be awarded as follows:

• Healthreach Community Health Centers, Waterville, $250,000

• Health Access Network, Lincoln, $325,000

• Penobscot Community Health Center, Bangor, $325,000

• Portland Community Health Centers, Portland, $325,000

• DFD Russell Medical Center, Leeds, $1,077,793

• Eastport Healthcare, Eastport, $1,060,267

• Fish River Rural Health, Eagle Lake, $1,610,894

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 grant funding provided to these groups are annual awards in a three year cycle.

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