[July 15, 2011] Harkin Announces More Than $42,000 in Funding for Cedar Rapids School-Based Health Center Tweet Jul 15, 2011 (Congressional Documents and Publications/ContentWorks via COMTEX) -- Washington D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) announced today that the Cedar Rapids School District will receive a construction grant of $42,600. The funding will be used to expand the Metro Care Connection - Cedar Rapids Community School District School-Based Health Centers and Services, which often serves families that lack regular access to health care services. The funding comes from the new health reform law, the Affordable Care Act. Harkin is Chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee that funds health initiatives and played a major role in shaping and passing the Affordable Care Act as Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. "School-based health centers improve the health and well-being of children and with this funding today, the Cedar Rapids program will be able to expand and provide even more services to local students," said Harkin. "Particularly in this area, which continues to recover from the flooding of 2008, this funding speaks to the mission of the new health reform law: to expand access to quality, affordable health care. I congratulate the school district on this award." Metro Care Connection serves a large number of schools within the district, with the largest program located at Taylor Elementary, in the heart of the area that was flooded in 2008. Taylor Elementary continues to work with students whose homes were destroyed by the flood. Read this original document at: http://harkin.senate.gov/press/release.cfm?i=333514 [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]