$100M in ACA funding to support new health centers

The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced the availability of $100 million in Affordable Care Act funding to increase access to primary care through new community health centers.

The funding will support an estimated 150 new health center sites across the U.S. in 2015. This adds to the more than 550 new health center sites that the agency already has opened during the past three years, according to HHS.

Currently about 1,300 health centers operate in more than 9,200 service delivery sites—providing care to more than 21 million patients in the U.S., Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Pacific Basin.

“In communities across the country, Americans turn to their local community health center for vital healthcare services that help them lead healthy, productive lives. That’s why it’s so important that the Affordable Care Act is supporting the expansion of health centers,” said Burwell in a statement.

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