Four Connecticut community health centers, including two in Hartford and East Hartford, have received $1 million each in federal grants from the Department of Health and Human Services.
The $4 million will be used for facility renovation, expansion or construction. The health centers will use this funding to increase their patient capacity and provide additional primary and preventive health services to medically underserved populations.
According to an HHS statement, the centers are:
- Charter Oak Health Center, Hartford;
- First Choice Health Center, East Hartford;
- Cornell Scott-Hill Health Corporation, New Haven; and,
- Fair Haven Community Health Clinic.
HHS said these awards will allow health centers to renovate or acquire new health center clinical space to help provide care to an estimated 18,776 new patients in Connecticut. This investment builds on the $2.4 million awarded to health centers in Connecticut for construction and/or renovation in Sept. 2015. This funding comes from the Affordable Care Act’s Community Health Center Fund, which was extended with bipartisan support in the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015.
