Neighborhood Health Center Inc.

Neighborhood Health Center Inc., a nonprofit rural health center based in Richmond, Indiana, is a federal grant recipient delivering primary care and mobile health services to medically underserved populations in rural Indiana counties, operating as a prime recipient on Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and Department of Agriculture grants (73% of recent awards) and as a sub-recipient on state health department and regional workforce grants.

Neighborhood Health Center Inc. operates three clinical sites — Richmond (Wayne County), Liberty (Union County), and Connersville (Fayette County) — and has deployed a USDA-funded mobile health unit to serve homeless and other vulnerable populations across the service area. The organization's federal grant work centers on primary care expansion, rural health outreach, quality improvement for at-risk patients, telehealth service delivery, and pandemic response. The patient population faces concentrated social determinants of health burden: 45 percent experience financial insecurity, 23 percent face food insecurity, and 23 percent lack reliable transportation. The service area encompasses regions with poverty rates ranging from 11.3 percent to 17.8 percent across the three counties, and Wayne County ranks among the unhealthiest counties in Indiana and nationwide.

HRSA's Bureau of Primary Health Care dominates the funding footprint, accounting for five awards including a $650,000 Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224) New Access Point project grant awarded August 1, 2026, running through July 31, 2027, to expand primary healthcare access and support outreach efforts. The organization also holds a four-year Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement grant from HRSA's Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (awarded August 1, 2022, through July 31, 2026) to expand care coordination for at-risk chronic disease patients, and a Rural Health Care Services Outreach Grant Program award from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (awarded August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2029) to operate the mobile health unit in partnership with Reid Health, McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital, Union County Health Department, Gleaners Food Bank, and the Union County Library. Earlier HRSA grants supported COVID-19 vaccination expansion (awarded December 1, 2022) and the FY 2023 Bridge Access Program (awarded September 1, 2023). The Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service awarded an American Rescue Plan economic development grant for rural health care facilities (January 10, 2022). In the sub-recipient role, Neighborhood Health Center Inc. participates in Indiana Family and Social Services' RHTP I12 GROW grant for integrated community access and workforce pipeline initiatives (awarded September 17, 2026) and the Indiana Department of Health's National Cardiovascular Health Program (sub-awards dated June 30, 2026, and September 4, 2025).

Combined federal awards total $5.9 million obligated across eleven prime and sub grants since 2020. Five distinct customer agencies fund the footprint: HRSA leads with five awards, followed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (two awards), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (one award), and the Rural Utilities Service (one award). Activity has grown from one award in 2021 to three awards in 2026, with one award (the Bridge Access Program) reaching completion within the next twenty-four months. The organization's federal grant strategy reflects rural primary care delivery and social determinant interventions targeting geographically and economically isolated populations in eastern Indiana counties.