The Virginia Health Care Foundation has awarded $814,167 in grants to 13 nonprofit organizations throughout Virginia to  increase access to behavioral health, medical and dental care for uninsured and medically underserved Virginians.

Jul 16, 2025

Richmond, Virginia, July 15, 2025 – The Virginia Health Care Foundation (VHCF) has awarded $814,167 in grants to 13 nonprofit organizations throughout Virginia to  increase access to behavioral health, medical and dental care for uninsured and medically underserved Virginians.

“We’re honored to partner with organizations across the Commonwealth to continue to deliver needed health care to Virginia’s uninsured and medically underserved,” said Rachel Rees, VHCF’s CEO “From behavioral health services in Roanoke, to expanded dental care in Southwest Virginia, these investments will increase access to needed health care across Virginia. I’m grateful for the partnerships making this work possible, helping ensure all Virginians have access to the health care they need.”

New and continuing grants include:

Behavioral Health: These organizations are focused on increasing and maintaining access to behavioral health services in their communities through sustainable and innovative approaches:

  • Bacon Street Youth and Family Services: $53,100 to fund one full-time Resident in Counseling to expand availability of mental health services in the greater Williamsburg area.
  • Bradley Free Clinic: $56,250 to help support the salary of a full-time Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner who will expand behavioral health capacity and increased access for psychiatric medication management in Roanoke.
  • The Women’s Center: $77,000 to increase behavioral health capacity and establish a new pipeline for pre-licensed clinicians to achieve licensure.

Dental Safety Net: Each of these grants is expanding the availability of oral health care.

  • Appalachian Highlands Community Dental Center: $55,500 to fund equipment for one dental operatory to expand capacity to serve the underserved in Southwest Virginia.
  • Community Health Center of the New River Valley: $120,000 to fund equipment for two dental operatories at the newly constructed facility in Montgomery County
  • Connect Health + Wellness: $63,000 to support a part-time dental hygienist to meet the demand for cleanings and routine dental care in a dental care health professional shortage area.
  • Daily Planet: $120,000 capital investment to support the expansion of dental services.
  • Fauquier Free Clinic: $37,500 to help support the salaries of a full-time dentist and a part-time oral surgeon to meet increased demand for dental services.
  • Free Clinic of Powhatan: $29,036 to add another day of dental care in response to high local demand and the lack of local dental providers who accept Medicaid.
  • Healing Hands Health Center: $50,625 to help fund the salary of a full-time dental hygienist for residents of Bristol and Southwest Virginia.
  • New Horizons Healthcare: $56,250 to help support the salary of a dentist to help increase capacity and serve more patients at the dental clinic.
  • Northern Neck Middlesex Free Health Clinic: $39,656 for part of the salary of a full-time dental hygienist to increase capacity for delivering preventive care.

Medical: The following grants expand the availability of primary medical care services in their communities.

  • Neighborhood Health: $56,250 to help support the salary of a family medicine physician expanding primary care services and women’s health services in Alexandria.

The Virginia Health Care Foundation is a non-profit public/private partnership with a mission to increase access to primary health care for uninsured and medically underserved Virginians. The Foundation was initiated by the General Assembly and its Joint Commission on Health Care in 1992. Since its inception, it has funded 564 community-based initiatives throughout the Commonwealth and established multiple programs and partnerships. Combined, they have helped more than 900,000 uninsured and medically underserved Virginians obtain the health care they need.

For more information about VHCF visit http://www.vhcf.org. For information about its behavioral health initiatives visit https://www.vhcf.org/who-and-how-we-help/behavioral-health/ or call (804) 828-5804.

Last Updated on July 16, 2025