WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) today announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a total of $1,875,470 to Bucksport Regional Health Center.

"People across Maine rely on rural health care providers like Bucksport Regional Health Center for critical health services to help them stay healthy and happy," King said in a news release. "This funding will help the Bucksport facility continue in its decades-long mission to provide quality community care to the surrounding area."

Bucksport Regional Health Center is a community primary care facility that has served the Bucksport area since 1974. The facility provides primary and dental care services to people of all ages. King has repeatedly emphasized the importance of rural health services throughout Maine communities.

This grant funding comes through the Health Resources and Services Administration, a sub-agency of Department of Health and Human Services tasked with improving access to health care by building healthy communities, strengthening the healthcare workforce, and achieving health equity. The Health Resources and Services Administration's programs target the economic and medically vulnerable as well as the geographically isolated. The grant for Bucksport Regional Health Center is under the Administration's Health Center Cluster program.