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Senate adopts $2.5 million amendment for community health center support
Summary
The Massachusetts Senate adopted amendment 49 to a supplemental budget, allocating $2.5 million to the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers to support community-based clinics facing closures, staffing losses and federal funding threats.
Senator Liz Miranda, the senator from Suffolk, urged the Senate to adopt amendment 49, which directs $2,500,000 of a $35,000,000 supplemental budget to the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers; the Senate agreed and adopted the amendment by voice vote.
Miranda told colleagues the funds would help community health centers respond to “emerging challenges” and an evolving health-care landscape. She said neighborhoods in the Second Suffolk District are seeing pharmacy closures and “health care deserts,” and warned that cuts at the…
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