{"id":622185,"date":"2026-09-12T06:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/622185\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T06:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:40:19","slug":"happi-health-becomes-federally-qualified-health-center-after-102-million-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/622185\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPI Health becomes federally qualified health center after $102 million award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waff.com\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WAFF<\/a>) &#8211; HAPPI Health is now officially a federally qualified health center after receiving a New Access Points award, a designation aimed at expanding access to health care in Huntsville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">U.S. Rep. Dale Strong and Health Resources and Services Administrator Tom Engels visited HAPPI Health on Thursday to highlight the federal investment. HAPPI Health is one of just 158 health centers nationwide selected for the award. The more than $102 million federal investment will expand access to primary care for nearly a million people nationwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Engels said the federally qualified status reflects the quality of care HAPPI Health already provides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cGetting that elevated status of being a federally qualified health center is very important because there\u2019s a lot of things that come with it. It also means that they\u2019re recognizing the great care they\u2019re providing those patients and the great care we\u2019re going to continue to provide to those patients. That\u2019s why we\u2019re so proud to partner with our federal partners, our state and local partners, but most importantly, the providers right here. Because they take care of patients,\u201d Engels said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">HAPPI Health says the funding will allow the organization to reach more medically underserved patients across the Huntsville area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@waff48news\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@waff48news\">Click Here to Subscribe on YouTube:<\/a> Watch the latest WAFF 48 news, sports &amp; weather videos on our YouTube channel!<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WAFF. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) &#8211; HAPPI Health is now officially a federally qualified health center after receiving a New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[264157,264155,264156,103,397,396,264159,61,60,264158],"class_list":["post-622185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-dale-strong-happi-health-visit","tag-happi-health-huntsville-federally-qualified","tag-happi-health-new-access-points-award","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-huntsville-health-center-federal-funding","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tom-engels-happi-health-funding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}