CARIBOU and PATTEN, Maine — U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine) announced July 7 that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded a total of $3,907,601 in federal funding to two Maine Health Centers. Pines Health Services in Caribou will receive $1,171,272, while Katahdin Valley Health Center in Patten will receive $2,736,329.
“People throughout our state rely on rural health providers for the essential health services that keep them happy and healthy,” King said. “This federal funding will support these facilities and help ensure access to top-quality care for the communities they serve.”
This grant funding is awarded through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency within HHS that is tasked with improving access to healthcare by building healthy communities, strengthening the healthcare workforce, and achieving health equity.
The HRSA’s programs target the economic and medically vulnerable as well as the geographically isolated. The grants are awarded under the HRSA’s Health Center Cluster program
