The Virginia Health Care Foundation (VHCF) has awarded grants, totaling more than $1.9 million to 23 organizations throughout Virginia.

Richmond, Virginia, June 29, 2022

The Virginia Health Care Foundation (VHCF) has awarded grants, totaling more than $1.9 million to 23 organizations throughout Virginia. These grants will increase access to behavioral health, medical and dental services for uninsured and medically underserved Virginians, and help eligible uninsured Virginians obtain state-sponsored health insurance.

Grantees and projects awarded as follows:

Behavioral Health Care

  • YWCA of Richmond – $74,400 to hire a pre-licensed Master of Social Work graduate to provide pediatric behavioral health services and receive the supervision needed to become licensed.
  • Tri-Area Community Health – $70,366 to support the salary of a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner to provide behavioral health medication management in Franklin County.
  • The Women’s Center – $66,875 to fund two mental health clinicians to provide behavioral health services to adolescents and their families in Northern Virginia.
  • New Horizons Healthcare – $51,656 to support the salary and benefits of an MSW graduate to provide integrated behavioral health services to children and families and to receive the supervision needed to become licensed.
  • ARROW Project – $50,000 to support the salary of the Licensed Clinical Psychologist to expand access to psychological assessments and behavioral health care in the Staunton, Augusta, and Waynesboro area.
  • Southwest Virginia Community Health Systems – $49,388 to fund an MSW graduate to expand access to tele-behavioral health care and receive the supervision needed to become licensed.

Primary Medical Care

  • Daily Planet Health Services – $135,000 to fund a two full-time Advanced Practice Providers (a Nurse Practitioner and a Physician’s Assistant) to meet the high demand for primary care.
  • Blue Ridge Medical Center – $112,500 to hire a full-time Family Nurse Practitioner to provide primary care in Appomattox.

Dental Care

  • Mission Dental Appalachian Highlands Community Dental Center – $100,000 to fund the purchase of dental equipment to outfit 6 new dental operatories.
  • Community Action Network – $99,000 to fund a dentist in collaboration with the Free Clinic of Central Virginia to increase access to dental care in Lynchburg.
  • Arlington Free Clinic – $74,178 to support the salary and benefits of a dentist and dental hygienist at AFC’s on-site clinic.
  • Eastern Shore Rural Health System – $33,750 to support the salary and benefits of a dentist to treat patients at the Franktown Community Health Center in Northampton County.

  Medicaid/FAMIS Outreach & Enrollment

  • Neighborhood Health – $223,347 to fund three full-time Project Connect Outreach Workers who will help enroll eligible residents of the cities of Alexandria, Arlington and southern Fairfax county in Virginia’s Medicaid/FAMIS health insurance programs.
  • Inova Partnership for Healthier Communities – $206,639 to fund four full-time and three part-time Project Connect Outreach Workers who will help enroll eligible residents of Fairfax and Prince William counties, and the City of Alexandria, in Virginia’s Medicaid/FAMIS health insurance programs.
  • Norfolk Department of Public Health – $158,128 to fund two Project Connect Outreach Workers who will help enroll eligible Virginians from the Hampton Roads area in the Medicaid/FAMIS health insurance programs.
  • Cumberland Plateau Health District – $128,079 to fund two Project Connect Outreach Workers who will help enroll eligible Southwest Virginians in the Medicaid/FAMIS health insurance programs.
  • Richmond-Henrico Health District – $64,099 to fund a Project Connect Outreach Worker who will help enroll eligible residents of the City of Richmond and Henrico County in the Medicaid/FAMIS health insurance programs.

Last Updated on August 17, 2022