Maryland Health Enterprise Zones.

The DHMH Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities urges Marylanders to become involved.  READ message below and visit the website shown at the end of the message.

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The Maryland Community Health Resources Commission (CHRC) and Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) are excited to provide an update on the state's continued work to eliminate racial and ethnic health and health care disparities under the Maryland Health Improvement and Disparities Reduction Act of 2012.

 

The new Health Enterprise Zones (HEZ) program, spearheaded by Lt. Governor Anthony G. Brown and passed by the General Assembly earlier this year, will direct health resources to areas in the state that are most in need.  Funds will be available to community nonprofit and government agencies to implement innovative health care programs, along with tax incentives for health care providers to practice in the HEZ.  The state will devote $4 million in fiscal 2013 to two-to-four geographic areas in Maryland that will be established through a competitive application process.

 

Public forums on the application process will be held this summer and applications will be accepted and reviewed this fall. The first HEZs are expected to be designated by the end of the year.

 

The Maryland Health Resources Commission and the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene are working together to launch this new program.  Please visit http://dhmh.maryland.gov/healthenterprisezones for more information or email Hez@dhmh.state.md.us with your questions.