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Dallas Community Health Center Recipient Of Affordable Care Act Funds

KERA | 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’s 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 will receive $275,000. 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 KERA News. She was also the primary backup host for KERA’s 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 “The Broken Hip”), as well as the Texas Veterans Commission’s Excellence in Media Awards in the radio category.

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