BANGOR — U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine) recently announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded a total of $409,863 to Pines Health Services in Aroostook County.
“Rural health care providers, like Pines Health Services, are absolutely critical to the communities they support,” King said. “This grant funding will help support Pines as it provides vital health care services to the people of Aroostook County.”
Pines Health Services is a nonprofit, community-based medical practice that serves various communities in Aroostook County. The organization delivers primary and specialty care services at itsa five locations in Caribou, Presque Isle, Van Buren, Washburn and Fort Fairfield.
King has repeatedly emphasized the importance of rural health services, like those provided at Pines’ five facilities, in Aroostook County and throughout Maine communities.
This grant funding comes through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), a sub-agency of HHS 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 grant for Pines Health Services is under the HRSA’s Health Center Cluster program.
