Health center program - #LALCS33898- brief history: happi health is a non-profit 501 (C) 3 health center located in huntsville, alabama

The Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration awarded Happi Health $1.3 million under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) on August 1, 2026, to expand primary health care access and services in Huntsville, Alabama.

Happi Health, a 501(c)(3) community health center with look-alike designation, operates four existing sites and is establishing a new access point in high-needs ZIP code 35805 to serve low-income, uninsured, and underinsured populations at or below 200 percent of federal poverty level. In 2023, the organization served 10,021 unduplicated patients across 31,820 medical visits (31,442 in-person, 378 virtual) and 1,561 mental health visits (1,546 in-person, 15 virtual), with 65 percent of patients pediatric. The patient population includes 63 percent Medicaid-covered, 10.4 percent uninsured, and fewer than 1 percent with incomes exceeding 200 percent federal poverty level.

The award supports continued expansion of comprehensive primary care, pediatric, adult, family medicine, and behavioral health services on a sliding fee scale to address barriers to care including poverty and limited private practice availability. Performance runs through July 31, 2027, with all work located in Huntsville, Alabama. Happi Health receives this funding as a direct recipient with no sub-recipients identified.

The mission of happi health is to provide accessible quality health care to everyone. The original clinic opened as a private for-profit pediatric practice called happi, INC., in june 2010. Happi, INC. Grew rapidly, responding to patient need by adding a walk-in/urgent care clinic, adult/family medicine, and a behavioral health. The clinic leadership's commitment to providing accessible quality health care to the underserved huntsville community led to the creation of non-profit governing board that determined the health center program model of care would benefit the community. The non-profit happi health received look-alike designation in february 2020, six weeks before the covid-19 pandemic. Today, happi health is a thriving community health center. In 2023, IT served 10,021 unduplicated patients (an increase of 24% over 2022), providing 31,820 medical visits (31,442 in person, 378 virtual) and 1,561 mental health visits (1,546 in person, 15 virtual). The majority of happi health's patients continue to be pediatric patients (65%). The families are poor - fewer than 1 percent are known to have incomes greater than 200 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL); 63 percent are covered by medicaid; 10.4 percent are uninsured. Happi's new access point (NAP) grant submission includes its four look-alike sites and adds a new huntsville site in a high needs ZIP code (35805 with a UNS score 89.9 or 18/20 NAP). Community served/health care needs/barriers to care: the target population is low-income (living at or below 200 percent federal poverty level-FPL), uninsured and underinsured, including people on medicaid and medicare because few private practices are accepting new patients due to poor reimbursement rates. Barriers to care include poverty (30 percent of the population live