Hudson Receives 2022 Distinguished Community Health Center Advocate Award
WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a local community health center today, U.S. Representative Richard Hudson (R-NC) was presented with the 2022 Distinguished Community Health Center Advocate Award by the National Association of Community Health Centers for his leadership of the MOBILE Health Care Act and continued support of health centers. Rep. Hudson's bipartisan legislation recently passed the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate and will allow community health centers to expand access to care in rural and underserved areas.
"Community health centers are critical for ensuring the health and wellbeing of folks across our region. I am proud that my bipartisan MOBILE Health Care Act was approved by Congress and will soon help centers like the one I toured today provide affordable, quality health care by allowing them to use New Access Point grants for establishing mobile health units," said Rep. Hudson. "Thank you to the National and North Carolina Community Health Center Associations for their support and I look forward to building on this legislation to help provide a healthier, happier future for all Americans."
The MOBILE Health Care Act was approved by the House last month and will soon travel to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law. For North Carolina’s 43 total community health centers and the nearly 750,000 patients they serve across 400 clinical locations, this bill will help them to expand their services to meet patients’ current and future needs.
H.R. 5141 was supported by the North Carolina Community Health Center Association, Cabarrus Rowan Community Health Centers, Inc., and Community Free Clinic in Concord. This is in addition to the National Association of Community Health Centers, National Rural Health Association, American Dental Association, and National Health Care for the Homeless Council.
Rep. Hudson is an active member of House Republicans' Healthy Future Task Force and sits on the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee. For more information on the MOBILE Health Care Act, click here.