WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United Health Foundation today announced several new initiatives to support the essential role of community health centers in providing comprehensive health care to millions of economically challenged Americans in urban and rural areas. The new grants will help facilitate the best use of the $2 billion in federal funding granted to community health centers under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and the transparent reporting of its impact on community health center patients.

United Health Foundation also announced today additional grant commitments of $4 million to its Community Health Centers of Excellence in four cities: New Orleans (Daughters of Charity Health Center – St. Cecilia); Miami (Jefferson Reaves, Sr. Health Center in Overtown); New York City (the South Bronx Health Center for Children & Families – through the Children’s Health Fund); and Washington, D.C. (Unity Health Care’s Congress Heights/Anacostia center). The grants bring the Foundation’s total commitment to these centers to $23 million since 2003.