Health Department awarded nearly $300,000 grant to help uninsured find affordable health insurance

The Women's Center is among the Mobile County Health Department's
Family Oriented Primary Health Care Clinics located on Cox Street in Mobile.



Mobile, Alabama -- The Mobile County Health Department's Family Oriented Primary Health Care Clinics were awarded nearly 300,000 this week through a federal grant that will be used to hire new employees on educating those without health insurance on new options expected to become available as changes in health care laws take effect in coming months.

"We will use the outreach to and enrollment funding to hire several new staff members to perform enrollment and outreach services to thousands of uninsured residents of Mobile County," said Frank Mitchell, a burea director of primary care with the health agency.

The new outreach and enrollment staff are expected to assist thousands of uninsured health department patients as well as thousands of other uninsured residents throughout Mobile County into insurance marketplace options, as well as Medicaid and Children's Healthcare Insurance Programs. The agency's newly hired staff members will be strategically placed at health care centers in Mobile County serving the greatest number of uninsured patients, agency officials said.