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Family Practice & Counseling Services Network won a $3.4 million federal heath center grant

Family Practice & Counseling Services Network's predecessor had received the federal funding since the 1990s, but the nor profit had to compete anew for the grant after it was spun out of RHD.

A mural in a conference room at Family Practice & Counseling Services Network's headquarters in Nicetown shows a timeline of the agency's history since its founding in 1992.
A mural in a conference room at Family Practice & Counseling Services Network's headquarters in Nicetown shows a timeline of the agency's history since its founding in 1992. Read moreFamily Practice & Counseling Services Network

Family Practice & Counseling Services Network won a $3.4 million federal health center grant that will allow the nonprofit to continue providing medical and mental healthcare in Southwest Philadelphia and other low-income Philadelphia neighborhoods, officials confirmed this week.

The clinic had been part of Resources for Human Development, a Philadelphia human services agency that a fast-growing Reading nonprofit called Inperium Inc. acquired in late 2024. As a federally qualified health clinic since 1992, the clinic had received an annual federal grant, higher Medicaid rates, and other benefits.

Federal rules prohibited the clinic from continuing to retain that status and those benefits under a parent company. That meant Family Practice & Counseling Network had two options: close or spin out into a new entity that would reapply to be a federally qualified clinic.

With financial and operational help from the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Family Practice & Counseling formed a new legal entity last July and reapplied for the grant. Last week, the organization’s CEO Emily Nichols learned that the federal agency that oversees federal health centers awarded it the grant.