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Ten community health-center systems in Florida — including four in South Florida — were awarded a total of $5 million in Affordable Care Act funds Tuesday to build new health-center sites to increase access for about 46,000 Floridians. Across the state, six other groups in Tampa, Saint Petersburg, Lake Worth, Avon Park, Dade City and Palatka also received awards to create new health centers, joining more than 550 centers that have opened in the four years since the passage of the ACA. Blake Hall, executive vice president of Community Health of South Florida (CHI), said the money his organization received will go into building a health center in West Kendall. The two-story facility will be completed by the end of the summer at 13540 SW 135th Ave. and feature primary care, gynecological, family medicine, pediatric, dental and behavioral health services. (Herrera, 5/5)

The federal government has announced $1 million in grants to support two new community health centers in Washington state. The money will support Family Health Centers in Okanogan County and the North Olympic Healthcare Network in Port Angeles, Washington. (5/5)

A Charlotte free clinic has won a federal grant that makes it the city’s second federally qualified health center. The announcement came Tuesday during a visit by Sylvia Burwell, the U.S. secretary of health and human services, to Charlotte Community Health Clinic, the 15-year-old free clinic now located in north Mecklenburg County. (Garloch, 5/5)