PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Rhode Island Foundation has awarded more than $250,000 in grants to five health-care organizations to expand and improve primary care services.
The philanthropic organization awarded grants to the Comprehensive Community Action Program, Planned Parenthood of Southern New England, The Providence Center, Rhode Island Hospital and the Rhode Island Parent Information Network.
Foundation President and CEO Neil Steinberg says the grants help make health care more accessible and affordable to Rhode Islanders.
The grants are made available through the RIGHA Foundation Fund, which was created when Harvard Pilgrim Health Care acquired the former Rhode Island Group Health Association.
Harvard Pilgrim Health and the RIGHA Foundation transferred its $1.6 million endowment to the foundation in 2010. The foundation says Harvard Pilgrim Health continues to make annual payments to the fund.
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