Dallas Community Health Center Recipient Of Affordable Care Act Funds

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Dallas Community Health Center Recipient Of Affordable Care Act Funds

四虎影院 | By Lauren Silverman

Published September 13, 2013 at 4:09 PM CDT

Martin Luther King, Jr. Family Clinic, in Dallas is one of 32 health centers across the country to receive an award made available in part by the Affordable Care Act. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced awards of approximately $67 million to the nation鈥檚 health centers, including $19 million made available by the Affordable Care Act, to establish new health service delivery sites.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Family Clinic . The other two Texas community health clinics on the list are located in Houston.

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Lauren Silverman

Lauren Silverman was the Health, Science & Technology reporter/blogger at 四虎影院. She was also the primary backup host for 四虎影院鈥檚 Think and the statewide newsmagazine Texas Standard. In 2016, Lauren was recognized as Texas Health Journalist of the Year by the Texas Medical Association. She was part of the Peabody Award-winning team that covered Ebola for NPR in 2014. She also hosted "Surviving Ebola," a special that won Best Long Documentary honors from the Public Radio News Directors Inc. (PRNDI). And she's won a number of regional awards, including an honorable mention for Edward R. Murrow award (for her project 鈥淭he Broken Hip鈥�), as well as the Texas Veterans Commission鈥檚 Excellence in Media Awards in the radio category.

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