Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/community-health-care-centers-benefit-from-stimulus Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Two billion dollars in federal stimulus funds have been set aside for nearly 1,200 community health care centers around the country that treat mostly poor and uninsured patients. Betty Ann Bowser reports on how the influx of money has affected some of the centers. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JIM LEHRER: And finally tonight, another in our ongoing series tracking the federal stimulus money. Tonight, a boost for community health centers.Correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports from a clinic in northeastern Ohio for our Health Unit, a partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.BETTY ANN BOWSER, NewsHour correspondent: Just a few months ago, this busy community health center in Lorain, Ohio, was on the verge of financial collapse.STEPHANIE WIERSMA, Lorain County Health and Dentistry: I think it's fair to say Lorain County Health and Dentistry was at death's doorstep six months ago. BETTY ANN BOWSER: Stephanie Wiersma is the center's president. STEPHANIE WIERSMA: We had to literally monitor every dollar coming in and going out to be sure that we could survive another month. BETTY ANN BOWSER: That was before it became one of the nearly 1,200 similar centers across the country to get a piece of the $2 billion in the stimulus package targeted for community health centers.Community health centers were created in the 1960s as part of President Johnson's war on poverty. They're a safety net for the poor and uninsured, nonprofit centers that provide health care to anyone who needs it, regardless of ability to pay.DAN HAWKINS, National Association of Community Health Centers: About 40 percent of the 18 million people served by health centers nationally are totally uninsured.