The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $1,200,000 Project Grant under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to the Centro De Salud Familiar DR. Julio Palmieri Ferri, Inc., a non-profit hospital organization in Arroyo, Puerto Rico. The grant funding will enable the organization to expand access to specialized mental health and substance use disorder services in the local community. Key strategies include implementing a referral system through the emergency department,...
The Morovis Community Health Center, Inc. (MCHC), a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) serving Puerto Rico, was awarded a $2,400,000 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224). The grant will fund a 2-year initiative to expand behavioral health services, including treatment for substance use disorder (SUD) and mental health disorders (MHD), in the medically...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $2,356,000 Project Grant to Migrant Health Center Western Region Inc. (MHC), a non-profit federally qualified health center in Puerto Rico, under the Community Health Centers program (CFDA 93.224). This 3-year award, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026, will support MHC's delivery of comprehensive primary and preventive healthcare services to underserved communities in...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a 2-year, $3,000,000 Project Grant to Migrant Health Center Western Region Inc. (MHC) under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224). The purpose of this grant is to increase access to behavioral health services, including mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, in the western regions of Puerto Rico. MHC, a non-profit 501(c)(3) federally qualified health center, will use the funding to hire a multidisciplinary...
The Municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico was awarded a $1,500,000 Project Grant by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to expand behavioral health services for the homeless population in San Juan. The grant will fund the following key services from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025: Increase the number of patients receiving mental health services, with a target of 910 patients served by 2025. Increase the number of patients...
The Centro De Servicios Primarios De Salud De Patillas, Inc. (CSPSP) was awarded a $1,800,000 Project Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to expand behavioral health services in Patillas, Puerto Rico over a two-year period. The funding will enable CSPSP, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), to significantly increase access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment for a projected 600 new patients, including...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Grants for New and Expanded Services under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.527), will fund a $3,000,000 project over a 2-year period from December 1, 2024 to November 30, 2026. The award recipient, Corporacion De Servicios Medicos Y Prevencion (doing business as Centro De Salud Hatillo), a minority-owned non-profit healthcare...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), through the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224), awarded a $1,200,000 Project Grant to Hospital General De Castaner Inc., doing business as Hospital Castaner, to expand mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) services and develop a medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) program. The initiative aims to increase access to these critical services for children, adolescents, adults, and older adults in Castaner and the surrounding...
The Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $1,200,000 Project Grant under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to Salud Integral En La Montana Inc. (SIM), a nonprofit federally qualified health center in Puerto Rico. The FY 2024 Behavioral Health Service Expansion grant will fund SIM's expansion of mental health services and the opening of a new substance abuse clinic to address the unmet needs of the underserved and vulnerable...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded Sanos Corp, a minority-owned non-profit hospital organization in Puerto Rico, a $2,356,000 Project Grant under the Community Health Centers program (CFDA 93.224). The funding supports Sanos Corp's delivery of comprehensive primary and preventive healthcare services to underserved communities in Caguas, Puerto Rico impacted by hurricanes and the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes providing medical, dental, behavioral health,...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $2,400,000 Project Grant under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) to the Community Health Foundation of Puerto Rico, Inc. (CHFPR) for their FY 2024 Behavioral Health Service Expansion program. The grant will enable CHFPR to expand mental health, substance use disorder (SUD), and medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services to 282,154 low-income residents across the municipalities of Bayamon, Catano, Dorado, Guaynabo, Toa Baja, and Vega Alta in northeastern Puerto Rico. Key services to be provided include increasing mental health clinical staff, adding two new MAT providers, and delivering integrated treatment through a fixed clinic site, Saturday clinics, and a mobile medical unit. This funding will allow CHFPR to partner with the Universidad Central del Caribe Fellowship in Addiction Medicine program to support their growing SUD/MAT services.