Special to The American
Dr. Mary Wakefield, administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, recently visited Grace Hill Neighborhood Health Centers’ Water Tower Health Center to tour the facility and present a symbolic check to Alan O. Freeman, Grace Hill president and CEO, for $2,147,821.
On Oct. 8, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced an investment of $727 million in community health centers.
“The funds from the Affordable Care Act will help more people get care in communities in St. Louis and across Missouri,” said Dr. Wakefield.
“These community health centers will build new facilities and modernize their current sites in their continuing effort to provide high quality health care to more and more people in need.”
Grace Hill Neighborhood Health Centers is receiving these Capital Development program funding dollars to renovate facilities and provide much needed radiology services.
“This funding will strengthen our long-standing commitment to enabling healthy, productive lives in the communities we are privileged to serve,” said Freeman.
“We are exceptionally pleased and honored to be selected by the Department of Health and Human Services to receive this competitive grant award.”
