A community health center that serves south-central Missouri is among those sharing in about $3 million in funding to Missouri from the federal government.
Among the recipients is Ava-based Douglas County Public Health Services Group Inc., which does business as Missouri Ozarks Community Health. It is Federally Qualified Health Center established in 1996. It has clinics at Cabool and Houston in Texas County.
The funding comes from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration, which announced $240 million nationwide to launch and expand mental health and substance use disorder services.
“With today’s announcement to establish and expand behavioral healthcare in hundreds of community health centers, we are further demonstrating our commitment not only to health coverage but to access to care,” HRSA Administrator Carole Johnson said in the release. “Mental health and substance use disorder treatment are essential elements of primary care, and there should be no wrong door for families to get the behavioral health care they need.”
