Cohen Announces $1.5 Million for Christ Community Health Services

[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced a new federal grant worth $1,575,000 for Christ Community Health Services to help train more primary care doctors and increase access to healthcare services in the Memphis area. This funding comes through the Health Resource and Services Administration’s (HRSA) $230 million nationwide Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education grant program, which was created as part of President Obama’s landmark healthcare reform law, the Affordable Care Act.

“Christ Community Health Services provides a vital service to the Memphis community,” said Congressman Cohen. “This Affordable Care Act funding will help Christ Community Health Services train more doctors and continue to provide the poor, the homeless, and the uninsured with the health care services they need.”

To help achieve the program’s goal of increasing the number of primary care residents and improving access to health care services, HRSA’s Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education initiative provides assistance and funding for medical education expenses for training residents in new or expanding community-based primary care residency programs. Seventy-five percent of Teaching Health Centers are in underserved communities.

Christ Community Health Services has focused on fulfilling the physical, spiritual and emotional needs of the poor, the uninsured and the homeless in Memphis since 1995. Through strategically placed health care centers and outreach programs, the group provides high-quality health care and other services to thousands of patients, caregivers, students and families each year.