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 $5,748,561 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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