{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://castor.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=364272", "U.S. Rep. Castor announces $4.4M in outreach & enrollment assistance for community health centers in Florida", "2013-12-11", "2013", "2013-12", "Democrat", "House", "FL", "Kathy Castor", "C001066", "castor.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "To help expand the capacity of community health centers serving our communities, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor announced that 46 centers in Florida will receive $4.4 million in federal grant awards.\r\n\u201cThese outreach grants will create employment in Tampa Bay and assist our community health centers in their effort to enroll uninsured Americans in the new health insurance coverage options made available by the Affordable Care Act,\u201d Rep. Castor said.\u00a0 \r\n\u201cThis grant will allow us to hire extra people and we should see significant increases in enrollment,\u201d said Charlie Bottoms, CEO of Tampa Family Health Centers, Inc., which will receive $240,908 from the grant. Community Health Centers of Pinellas, Inc. will receive $177,974; Pinellas County will receive $35,458; and Suncoast Community Health Centers, Inc. (in Ruskin) will receive $148,480. A complete list of all of Florida\u2019s grantees is available here:\u00a0 www.hrsa.gov/about/news/2013tables/outreachandenrollment/ \r\n\u201cDespite Florida Republican legislators blocking the implementation of the Affordable Care Act at nearly every turn, these grants will allow health centers to meet the immediate needs of their enrollment efforts, including expanding the hours of existing outreach and enrollment assistance workers, and hiring new or temporary outreach and enrollment assistance workers.\u201d\u00a0 \r\nThese grants build upon the Affordable Care Act\u2019s $8.1 million invested earlier this year into Florida\u2019s health centers. \r\n\u201cWith nearly 4 million Floridians who are uninsured and millions more who stand to benefit from the patient protections of the Affordable Care Act, community health centers are undertaking a large role in not only assisting with enrollment but also educating neighbors interested in learning about their health care rights,\u201d Rep. Castor said. \u201cOur neighbors turn to these community health centers as a trusted and familiar resource to provide face-to-face assistance with health care options.\u201d\u00a0 \r\nFlorida has 48 health centers with 410 sites that served 1.1 million patients last year. \r\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://castor.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=364272"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5306239947676659, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}