Government
HHS awards health center grants
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted April 25, 2005
The Dept. of Health and Human Services has approved the opening of 105 new community health centers. In 2002, President Bush launched an initiative to double the capacity of the health centers between 2002 and 2006. He set a goal of 1,200 centers serving 16 million patients annually.
At the beginning of this year, the president announced a new goal of putting a health center in every poor county.
Seventeen of the recently announced health centers will be awarded their grants in May. The other 88 will receive their awards in December.
Since 2002, including these new grants, HHS has funded more than 700 new or expanded health centers.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2005/04/25/gvbf0425.htm.
