Iowa health center receives $2 million in stimulus funding
A provider of health care in Iowa is one of 85 health centers in the community the country to receive a monetary impulse largest Recovery and Reinvestment Act, President Barack Obama announced Wednesday. “… Funding for the design, engineering and medical home demonstration project not only save more money and create more jobs, giving more people peace of mind that health care there for them and their families when they need it. Ultimately, what health reform really is,” said Obama. Primary Health Care, Inc., Des Moines is scheduled to receive more than $ 2. 6 million. The non-profit organization with medical and dental clinics in Des Moines, as well as a pharmacy in Community Services, HIV services and expansion project. It also operates a medical and dental clinic in Marshalltown. Although the clinics provide services to patients who have insurance, that specifically cater to those who are uninsured or underinsured. According to its website, seeks Primary Health Care, Inc. to find and successfully treat health condition before they become serious enough to require hospitalization or emergency treatment. “It has also developed several specialized programs. The Outreach program is targeted specifically to people who often fall between the cracks in the existing health system. Health Care for the homeless is a federally funded program that serves individual families, street children and homeless children in a non-traditional environment at the clinic. A federal program called Improving mental health and provide care for homeless substance abuse clients. The organization has also developed a four-point program for child and maternal health is a combination of government and programs funded by the federal government to serve pregnant women, recently extended families and newborns to 6 years. their families in the Transition Program, funded by U.S. Housing and Urban Development, have been foster care or prenatal through 15 years of a child, and make social workers to link the homeless to health care and mental health and life insurance affordable and environments . The clinics participating in the Outreach Program is available in six different locations in Des Moines, place them in areas of society which is experiencing the greatest need. To be eligible, the health center had to be federally qualified health center in the community. stipends of $ 508. 5 environment is provided through the Investment Fund Program to meet the urgent needs of the health-center facility. In addition, as much as 88 million U.S. dollars available to help health center controlled networks to improve efficiency and clinical quality in health centers, provide administrative, financial, technical and clinical support services. The new Recovery Act funds are the latest in a series of grants to Community Health Centers that provide primary and preventive nationally at more than 7500 locations to deliver services across the country patients regardless of ability to pay. Nationwide health centers serving more than 17 million patients , about 40 percent of those without health insurance.
by Neil on January 8th, 2010 Tags: Act President, Barack Obama, center, Demonstration Project, Dental Clinics, funding, Health, Health Care For The Homeless, Health Condition, Health Reform, Hiv Services, Home Demonstration, Homeless Children, Housing And Urban Development, Improving Mental Health, Iowa, Iowa Health, Maternal Health, million, Outreach Program, Primary Health Care, receives, stimulus, Substance Abuse Clients, System Health, Traditional Environment, Transition Program
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