A community health clinic in Peoria is one of ten organizations in Illinois to get major funding from the federal government.
US Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin of Illinois announced that Heartland Community Health Clinic in Peoria is among the selected agencies to share more than $24.5 million dollars from the Department of Health and Human Services.
The other organizations include the Knox Community Health Center in Galesburg, Greater Elgin Family Care Center, Aunt Martha's Youth Service Center Inc., in Olympia Fields, and health departments in Lake, Cass and Will counties. Other recipients of the funding are two organizations in Chicago - Heartland International Health Center and Centro de Salud y Esperanza - and Chestnut Health Systems in Bloomington.
A release says the state's community health centers provide primary health care for about 1.3 million people.
