Grassley: $250,000 to the River Hills Community Health Center

            WASHINGTON- Senator Chuck Grassley today announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a grant of $250,000 to the River Hills Community Health Center in Ottumwa.

 

            “Community health centers are important because they provide primary and preventative health care services to medically under-served areas,” Grassley said. “It’s great to see Ottumwa residents benefit from the services River Hills Community Health Center can provide.”

 

            Grassley co-sponsored The Health Centers Renewal Act of 2007 which reauthorized the health centers program for another five years and strengthened and expanded health centers in order to care for nearly 30 million patients. Many Iowa communities have benefitted from the federal investment of health centers, and other communities are looking to start new centers.