Saint Joseph's Mercy Care Services, Inc.

Saint Joseph's Mercy Care Services, Inc. (doing business as Saint Josephs Mercy Care Services Inc.), a tax-exempt nonprofit federally qualified health center based in Atlanta, Georgia, is a federal grant recipient providing integrated primary care, behavioral health, dental, and vision services to homeless and economically disadvantaged populations as a prime grantee (79% of recent awards) and as a sub-recipient under state and local grant pass-throughs (21%).

The organization serves as the only healthcare-for-the-homeless designated health center in Atlanta, operating across Fulton and DeKalb counties and providing services to more than 17,000 homeless and economically disenfranchised individuals and families annually. The capability portfolio centers on integrated primary care delivery, behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment, HIV/AIDS services (prevention, education, testing, and early intervention), dental and vision care, case management, peer support, street medicine, and homelessness prevention and housing services. Mercy Care's patient population reflects extreme vulnerability: 54 percent experience homelessness, 53 percent are uninsured, and 80 percent of those with recorded income live at or below 100 percent of the federal poverty level; 48 percent identify as Black or African American and 41 percent as Hispanic or Latino/a.

Federal grant work concentrates within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which accounts for the majority of recent awards across three principal sub-agencies. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) funds 19 awards across infrastructure support, behavioral health expansion, bridge access, COVID-19 vaccination, and navigator cooperative agreements supporting enrollment in the federally facilitated health insurance exchange. The Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development funds 9 awards under the Continuum of Care (CoC) Program (CFDA 14.267), with the most recent award dated September 1, 2025, providing $383,581 to support permanent housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, supportive services, and homelessness prevention across five program components. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) funds 5 awards, including a Minority AIDS Initiative grant (awarded September 30, 2023, completing September 29, 2028) targeting substance use disorder treatment and HIV care for racial and ethnic minorities, and a Project Launch award (awarded September 30, 2023, completing September 29, 2028) providing behavioral health screening and treatment for children birth through age 8 in two clinics serving primarily Hispanic immigrant and Black populations. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funds 4 awards. In its sub-recipient role, Mercy Care receives pass-through funding from Georgia State University Research Foundation (for community health worker support on the Community Resource Hub, awarded May 26, 2026, and December 12, 2024), the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (Project for Assisting and Transitioning from Homeless, awarded multiple times including September 27, 2024), the Georgia Department of Public Health (breast and cervical cancer screening and case management, awarded June 30, 2025, and June 30, 2024), the County of Fulton (HIV health services for residents with AIDS, awarded March 25, 2025, and June 28, 2023), and Partners For H.o.m.e., Inc. (intensive supportive housing and case management for chronically homeless high utilizers, awarded April 15, 2025, and December 7, 2023).

Activity has averaged roughly two to six awards per year over the past five years, with four awards completing ultimate delivery within the next twenty-four months, exposing recompete opportunity across CoC, behavioral health expansion, and early childhood mental health programs.