Jefferson Comprehensive Health Center Inc.

Jefferson Comprehensive Health Center Inc. is a non-profit health center located in Fayette, Mississippi that provides primary care, preventive care, and other health services to rural communities. Through federal grants, the organization participates in initiatives to expand access to care, address health disparities, improve rural health networks, and enhance health center infrastructure in the Mississippi Delta region.

Past federal prime grant awards to Jefferson Comprehensive Health Center Inc. were from the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration and supported projects related to rural health care delivery, COVID-19 response, HIV prevention and testing, expanding clinical capacity, and health center construction and renovation. The organization has also received federal funds as a sub-recipient to provide nutritional services through the WIC program in coordination with the Mississippi State Department of Health and participate in an AIDS education and training initiative administered by Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Specific activities performed under these prime and sub awards include establishing integrated rural health networks, implementing community health worker training programs, expanding telehealth capabilities, conducting HIV testing/counseling, providing nutritional food vouchers to low-income women and children, delivering AIDS education programs, among other public health services targeted to high-need populations in the Mississippi Delta.