Grantee Name
Sunset Park Health Council, Inc. (Lutheran Family Health Centers)
Funding Area
Special Projects Fund
Publication Date
July 2013
Grant Amount
$200,000
Grant Date:
December 1, 2009 – November 30, 2010
For more than 40 years, Lutheran Family Health Centers (LFHC) has provided comprehensive primary and dental care to ethnically diverse, medically underserved neighborhoods around New York City.
When budget cuts forced the City to eliminate its oral health program (OHP) in 2008, LFHC stepped in to mitigate the potentially catastrophic effect of the move. In operation since 1903, OHP was serving approximately 17,000 of the City’s most vulnerable children at the time of its closure.
In 2009, NYHealth awarded LFHC a grant to offset acquisition and startup costs for 12 of the 46 OHP dental clinics based in City public schools, and to make necessary investments in equipment, infrastructure, and health information technology.