Unity Health Care News
D.C. Title X Family Planning Program
The Title X Family Planning program was enacted in 1970 as Title X of the Public Health Service Act. Title X is the only federal grant program dedicated solely to providing individuals with comprehensive family planning and related preventive health services. The Title X program is designed to provide access to contraceptive services, supplies and information to all who want and need them. By law, priority is given to persons from low- income families (OPA/Office of Family Planning).
Unity Health Care Is Awarded $12 Million Through The Recovery Act
To Build & Renovate Community Health Centers In Wards 1 & 8
Washington, DC – December 9, 2009, Vincent A. Keane, President/CEO of Unity Health
Care, Incorporated (Unity) attended President Barack Obama’s televised press
conference held in the South Court Auditorium on the grounds of the White House. The
President announced $600 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
(Recovery Act) funding, which has been awarded to support major construction and
renovation projects at 85 community health centers nationwide. Unity was one of the
85 awardees, receiving $12 million through the Recovery Act. “Studies show that people
living near a health center are less likely to go to the emergency room and less likely to
have unmet critical medical needs. CHC are proven to reduce ethnic and racial
disparities in care. And the medical expenses of regular CHCs patients are nearly 25
percent lower than those folks who get their care elsewhere – 25 percent lower,”
President Obama stated.
Unity Health Care Opens its Newest Community Health Center at DC General
WASHINGTON, DC – On Thursday, October 1, 2009, Unity Health Care assumed the
management of the former Ambulatory Care Center on the grounds of DC General.
Adding to its network of community health centers, Unity Health Care at DC General will
provide primary health care and specialty services to the residents of the District of
Columbia.
Unity Health Care’s Foundation Speakers Bureau
For more information about the Unity Speakers Bureau
or to schedule members of the Speakers Bureau to attend your speaking
engagement – please contact:
Ana Zorrilla, Unity Health Care Foundation Marketing Assistant @ 202-715-7887, via email at
azorrilla@unityhealthcare.org, or fax the “Speaker Request Form”
to Ana Zorrilla at 202-544-2678
For more information about Unity Health Care, contact our Marketing Department at (202) 715-7886 or (202) 715-7887
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