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RHCC awarded $3.1 million grant for health services

March 4, 2016

PEMBROKE — Robeson Health Care Corporation has received a $3.1 million grant for primary and behavioral health care services.

“The federal funding RHCC was awarded helps to ensure our valued community families continue to receive high-quality, cost-effective, culturally-sensitive and medically-appropriate primary care and behavioral health care services,” said Carl I. Walters II, president and CEO of the corporation.

The $3,154,545 grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will help fund RHCC’s seven health care centers in Robeson, Scotland and Montgomery Counties from April 1 through March 31, 2017.

Walters says it is one of the larger grants the corporation has received.

RHCC serves as a medical home to more than 13,000 families who are served by 225 professionals. In addition to its seven health centers, it also operates six substance abuse facilities throughout North Carolina.

“This is great news for the well-being of individuals and families across North Carolina. This grant will help ensure that Robeson Health Care Corporation can continue providing top-notch patient care that meets the needs of our local communities,” U.S. Rep Richard Hudson said in a statement announcing the funding.

A federally-qualified health system, RHCC offers primary care, pediatric, internal medicine, pharmacy, migrant and seasonal farm worker, HIV, Healthy Start, prevention, outpatient substance abuse and behavioral services and is governed by a nine-member consumer board of directors.

“Our board of directors and administration sincerely appreciates Congressman Hudson’s and fellow legislative officials health center funding advocacy efforts as such efforts help ensure health systems such as ours continue to receive this funding,” Walters said. “And this funding is what we leverage to help keep our valued community families healthy and whole — one life, one family at a time.”