“Welsh Mountain received $1.6M federal grant for project”

Bonnie Wanamaker, of Lebanon, smiles at Zoe Johnstone D.M.D. with Welsh Mountain Health Centers, at the ribbon cutting ceremony for th Welsh Mountain Health Centers Lebanon Ridge Oral Heath center on South 9th Street in the City of Lebanon on September 4, 2014. When the health center opened in May 2014, Wanamaker was one of the first patients. Before she had to drive over a hour to New Holland in Lancaster County to a Welsh Mountain Health Center. Jeremy Long — Lebanon Daily News

by Chris Sholly | Lebanon Daily News

“Lebanon Ridge Oral Health celebrated its official grand opening in downtown Lebanon, with local and state health-care dignitaries as well as sponsors and residents Thursday afternoon.

“The community dental clinic has been a long time coming. Discussions for the clinic began about three years ago. In 2012, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services approved a $1.68 million grant for Welsh Mountain Health Centers to open the clinic in Lebanon. The community contributed $170,000 match for the project. The state also approved a $200,000 grant for the project.

“‘It’s an exciting day,’ Georgette Dukes McAllister, Welsh Mountain CEO, said at the open house Thursday. ‘We’re are grateful to the community partners that have got us to this point.’”

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