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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida has approved grants to be awarded this summer to nine nonprofit Florida organizations dedicated to expanding the health care safety net for people who may otherwise go without care or rely on costly emergency room visits.

Recipients, grant totals and program areas funded are:

• Bay Medical Center - St. Andrew's Clinic -- $96,000 -- medical supplies and medications to treat patients at St. Andrews Community Medical Center in Panama City.
• Broward Health -- $60,000 -- case management to help kinship families find a primary medical home and enroll in health insurance programs through the Kinship Cares Initiative.
• Camillus House, Inc. -- $98,700 -- walk-in clinic to treat acute illnesses, sexually transmitted diseases and skin infections, and screen for Tuberculosis and vision at Camillus House shelter in Miami.
• Children's Volunteer Health Network -- $99,360 -- restorative dental care to children in pre-K through 3rd grade from Santa Rosa Beach.
• Community Coalition on Homeless Corporation -- $100,000 -- full-time clinic coordinator and part-time dental assistant for a medical and dental clinic in Bradenton.
• Heart of Florida Health Center, Inc. -- $50,000 -- psychiatric evaluation, referral coordination, brief crisis intervention and community mental health prevention and education in Marion County.
• Good Samaritan Health Centers, Inc. -- $66,932 -- dental equipment, set-up supplies and part-time dental hygienist for The Wildflower Clinic in St. Augustine.
• Partners In Adolescent Lifestyle Support (PALS) -- $100,000 -- sc
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