By Khalida Sarwari
Three Bay Area community health centers will receive $641,166 to help them expand their services, a local congresswoman announced.
The San Mateo County Health Services Agency will receive $180,182, South County Community Health Center in East Palo Alto will receive $236,533, and Santa Cruz County will receive $224,451, according to Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto.
“Our community health centers serve those who are in need and these grants will allow them to expand the critical services they provide to our community,” Eshoo said in a statement.
Eshoo said the funding, which will come from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, will benefit centers that provide medical care to thousands of people.
“With California’s unemployment rate at 10.5 percent and predictions that it will be above 12 percent next spring, it’s more important than ever to help the newly uninsured,” Eshoo said.