KIRKSVILLE, MO --  

Senator Claire McCaskill is awarding over $17 million to 20 healthcare centers in Missouri. Northeast Missouri Health Council will receive over $800,000.
    
According to Chief Executive Officer Andy Grimm, they will use the money to build additional capacity to serve more patients. He says they will build additional space and it capacity at the new Crown Drive Health Campus
    
The new space will be used to house enough hardware to implement electronic medical records to nine medical clinics and one dental clinic. The grant money is provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's Capital Improvement Program. Funds will help with construction, repair and renovation, as well as the purchase of new equipment.

Listed are the Missouri healthcare center recipients:
• Advocates for a Healthy Community, Springfield ($979,610)
• Big Springs Medical Association DBA Missouri Highland Health Care, Ellington ($786,935)
• Community Health Center of Central Missouri, Jefferson City ($369,595)
• Crider Health Center, Inc., Wentzville ($391,540)
• Cross Trails Medical Center, Cape Girardeau ($623,240)
• Family Care Health Centers, St. Louis ($941,705)
• Family Health Center of Boone County, Columbia ($631,990)
• Grace Hill Neighborhood Health Centers, Inc., St. Louis ($1,686,610)
• Great Mines Health Center, Potosi ($433,680)
• Katy Trail Community Health, Sedalia ($425,805)
• Model Cities Health Corp of Kansas City, Kansas City ($1,497,365)
• Myrtle Hilliard Davis Comprehensive Health Centers, Inc., St. Louis ($1,329,575)
• Northeast Missouri Health Council, Inc., Kirksville ($804,120)
• Northwest Health Services, Inc., St. Joseph ($1,250,090)
• Ozark Tri-County Health Care Consortium DBA Access Family Care, Neosho ($635,140)
• Peoples Community Health Center, St. Louis ($1,543,145)
• Richland Medical Center, Inc., Richland ($578,440)
• Rural Alliance for Better Family Health, West Plains ($483,870)
• Samuel U. Rodgers Community Health Center, Kansas City ($879,440)
• Southeast Missouri Health Network, Inc., New Madrid ($871,285)