New Jersey Community Health Centers Receive $18 Million In Funding From Affordable Care Act

For Immediate Release:
May 1st, 2012

(NEW JERSEY) – Today, seven local community health centers in New Jersey were awarded $18 million in funding through the Affordable Care Act.

The money will be used to expand facilities and improve existing services, as well as address pressing facility and equipment needs. Some 17,450 new patients will also be served as a result of the shared federal grants.

The seven community health centers sharing the federal grants are:

•  Community Health Care (Bridgeton)
•  Henry J. Austin Health Center (Trenton)
•  Monmouth Family Health Center (Long Branch)
•  Newark City Health and Human Services (Newark)
•  Project H.O.P.E (Camden)
•  Southern Jersey Family (Hammonton)
•  Zufall Health Center (Dover)

“Community health centers fill an important need in our local cities and towns,” said Joshua Henne, New Jersey spokesman for Know Your Care. “This funding is critical to ensuring that these centers can continue providing the care and resources that help to keep New Jersey’s families and communities healthy. The Affordable Care Act has proved crucial to maintaining these health centers and bringing much-needed care to The Garden State.”

All across America, grants totaling more than $728 million will support 398 renovation and construction projects - creating jobs and boosting the ability of health centers ability to care for additional patients. These awards are part of a series of capital investments made available to community health centers under the Affordable Care Act - which provides $9.5 billion to expand services over five years and $1.5 billion to support major construction and renovation projects at community health centers.

Overall, since the beginning of 2009, employment at community health centers nationwide has increased 15%. Through the Affordable Care Act and the Recovery Act, community health centers are today serving nearly 3 million additional patients tand will serve an additional 1.3 million new patients in the next two years.For more information on the grants and grantees, please visit:

http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2012pres/05/20120501a.html

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The Affordable Care Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23rd, 2010. Over the past two years, it has been a tremendous help to millions of Americans as this real reform lowers costs and guarantees more choice for consumers. As additional provisions are implemented, ACA will continue to benefit millions more people.

Lautenberg, Menendez Announce More Than $1.9 Million to Improve Health Care, Promote Medical Research in New Jersey

Both U.S. Sens. from New Jeresy,  Frank Lautenburg and Bob Menedez, issued a joint press release today to announce that the Department of Health and Human services has awarded more than $1.9 million in federal funds to three New Jersey research institutions to provide health services to state residents and increase their medical research. The funds will help support support community health centers, new research on the human genome and breast cancer:

Newark, NJ – U.S. Sens. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) today announced the Department of Health and Human Services awarded more than $1.9 million in federal funds to three New Jersey research institutions to provide health services to state residents and increase their medical research. The funding will expand community health care centers at UMDNJ’s Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and fund new research on the human genome, sepsis and breast cancer.

“By funding this critical research, we are creating jobs and helping our residents avoid life-threatening diseases,” Sen. Lautenberg said. “These awards will go a long way to protecting the next generation and helping them build a healthy future.”

“Our state has always been a leader in innovation, which expands the job market and makes a difference in our lives,” said Senator Menendez. “These federal funds will not only advance the search for cures, they help produce the groundbreaking discoveries that benefit patients in need as well as our state’s economy.”

University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School

· $949,245 to fund health centers.
· $553,800 to study the shock, trauma, and origin of sepsis.

Rutgers
· $266,859 for continuation of research into the human genome through creating of chromatin structures.
· $168,521 to work on cancer detection and diagnosis research for breast cancer.