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New Health Center to Care for Underserved Residents

(BizWeekly) -- The Horizon Foundation has announced that a new health center will open in Columbia to serve uninsured and underinsured Howard County residents, as well as others, lacking access to readily available and affordable primary health care, including Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries.

During the coming months, the Health Alliance, a free clinic providing services for county residents who lack access to health care, will be assessing how it can integrate its services within the new center.

The new health center represents a partnership between Horizon, Chase Brexton Health Services and the Maryland Community Health System. As a Federally Qualified Health Care Center, it is eligible to receive federal support to provide basic health care for county residents.

It will be located in the Knoll North Building in Oakland Mills, site of the former Columbia Medical Plan. Horizon President and CEO Richard Krieg said that the foundation's planning team had worked for two years to develop and implement the new facility. "The last hurdle was reached last month when the federal government approved the health center," he added.