Nine North Carolina school-based health centers will be receiving more than $2.27 million in federal grants created by the Affordable Care Act for the School-Based Health Center Capital Program. Grants totaling $95 million were awarded Thursday to 278 school-based health center programs across the country to help clinics expand and provide more health care services.
North Carolina grantees:
| Alamance-Burlington School System, Burlington |
$137,990 |
| Bakersville Community Medical Clinic, Inc, Bakersville |
$126,017 |
| FirstHealth of the Carolinas, Pinehurst |
$499,988 |
| Lincoln Community Health Center, Inc, Durham |
$50,000 |
| Blue Ridge Community Health Servics, Hendersonville |
$160,000 |
| Mitchell County Board of Education, Bakersville |
$148,459 |
| Morehead Memorial Hospital, Eden |
$242,915 |
| West Caldwell Health Council, Inc, Collettsville |
$411,900 |
| Yancey County Schools, Burnsville |
$500,000 |
The grants are the first in a series of awards that will be made available to school-based health centers under the Affordable Care Act, which provided for a total of $200 million for 2010 through 2013 for the School-Based Health Center Capital Program. To learn more abour the program, visit www.hrsa.gov/ourstories/schoolhealthcenters.
