Federal funding for Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center Network on hold for two years

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WASHINGTON – Over $700,000 in federal funds for the Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center has been held up in Washington for over two years.  On Tuesday, US Senator Charles Schumer called on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to approve and release it.
The network, with facilities in Mount Vernon, Yonkers and Greenburgh, serves over 82,000 patients each year.
With 23,000 of them living below the poverty line, the center needs the federal funding to subsidize their services, and the senator said it has not received the money owed it for 2014, 2015 and 2016.
The Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center that, as a health provider and serves as a health safety net for those in need and Schumer would like the money owed it released as soon as possible. 




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