Castro Announces $2M for Improving Healthcare in San Antonio
WASHINGTON—Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and First Vice Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, announced $2,000,000 of federal funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) towards the Center for Health Care Services (CHCS), the local mental health authority for San Antonio and Bexar County. This grant is intended to help CHCS expand their availability of integrated physical and behavioral health care in the San Antonio community.
“At a time when the Administration is threating the availability of healthcare services for American citizens, I welcome this federal funding to the Center for Health Care Services (CHCS) in San Antonio to expand the availability of integrated physical and behavioral health care in our community. Now is a time when we need increased healthcare services more than ever, and I am glad to see CHCS plans to use this funding to install Care Coordination teams that will tend to patients throughout their care process. CHCS has already improved lives of San Antonians with their great work, and this grant will contribute to their efforts that better our city and our state.”
Background: Across the two-year funding period, CHCS plans to use this funding to provide coordinated care for 3,000 low-income adults and children with behavioral and physical health conditions related to mental illness, substance abuse, emotional disturbance, or chronic physical health illnesses. Funding will begin September 30, 2018.
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