Suncoast Community Health Centers Inc.

Suncoast Community Health Centers Inc., doing business as Ruskin Health Center, is a non-profit health center that provides comprehensive primary and preventive health care services to underserved communities. Through various programs under the Department of Health and Human Services, primarily the Health Resources and Services Administration, Ruskin Health Center has received over $25 million in federal grant funding to support COVID-19 response efforts, capital improvements, infrastructure enhancements, and expanded delivery of community-based health care services.

Specifically, Ruskin Health Center has been awarded federal funding to increase community access to COVID-19 testing and vaccines, implement facility renovations and capacity building projects, establish new school-based health center sites, improve HIV prevention and treatment services, and expand overall scope of primary care available to vulnerable populations in Ruskin, Florida. Major federal grant programs supporting this work include the Health Center Program, Grants for Capital Development in Health Centers, COVID-19 public health emergency funding, and the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative. Additionally, as a subrecipient, Ruskin Health Center helps administer Title X family planning services and geriatrics workforce enhancement programs on behalf of state and university partners.