STATE OF MARYLAND
Community Health Resources Commission
45 Calvert Street, Annapolis, MD 21401, Room 336
Martin O’Malley, Governor – Anthony G. Brown, Lt. Governor
John A. Hurson, Chairman – Mark Luckner, Executive Director
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mark Luckner
Executive Director, CHRC
(410) 260-7046 office/ (410) 299-2170 cell
MARYLAND COMMUNITY HEALTH RESOURCES COMMISSION TO ANNOUNCE STATE DENTAL AWARD TO CHOPTANK COMMUNITY HEALH SYSTEM
Denton, MD (August 12, 2010) –The Maryland Community Health Resources Commission (CHRC) will join a number of state and local leaders to announce a dental grant to Choptank Community Health System, a federally qualified health center that serves a number of jurisdictions on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
The two-year dental grant will enable Choptank to provide dental services to an estimated 3,500 residents of the Upper Shore, and this is the third grant that Choptank has received from the Commission over the last three years.
The dental award to Choptank is one of 14 grants issued this year by the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission, and these 14 grants are projected to serve more than 76,000 low-income and uninsured Marylanders. In addition to these 14 grants, the CHRC has awarded 64 grants over the last four years, totaling $20.5 million, and these grants have provided health care to more than 55,000 Marylanders. Over the coming weeks and months, the CHRC will be working with DHMH and local health officers to help Maryland safety net providers, organizations like Choptank Community Health System, implement health reform.
Who: The Honorable Addie Eckardt, Maryland House of Delegates
The Honorable Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio, Maryland of Delegates
The Honorable Richard Sossi, Maryland House of Delegates
Doug Wilson, Commissioner, Maryland Community Health Resources Commission
Dr. Harry Goodman, Director, Office of Oral Health, Maryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene
Dr. Leland Spencer, Health Officer, Kent County
Mr. John Strube, Choptank Community Health System
When: August 12, 2010
11:00 a.m.
Where: Choptank Community Health System
301 Randolph Street
Denton, MD 21629
Tel (410) 479-4306
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