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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #68 |
| Community Health Center |
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| Requester: |
Yolette Bonnet |
Organization: |
FoundCare |
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| Project Title: |
Community Health Center |
Date Submitted |
12/18/2007 5:57:06 PM |
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| Sponsors: |
Aronberg |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| 2.8 million Florida residents live without health insurance according to the 2004 Florida Health Insurance Study. Rising healthcare costs for the uninsured cost Florida $15 billion per year. The establishment of Palm Beach County�s first non-profit, non-governmental, federally qualified Community Health Center will help combat these staggering statistics by providing access to high quality medical, dental and pharmacy services to Palm Beach County�s 226,000 uninsured residents. |
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| Recipient: |
FoundCare |
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Contact: |
Yolette Bonnet |
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2330 South Congress Avenue |
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Contact Phone: |
(561) 472-3022 |
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West Palm Beach 33406 |
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Contact email: |
ybonnet@foundcare.org |
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| Counties: |
Palm Beach |
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| Gov't Entity: |
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Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): |
Yes |
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| Project Description: |
| Construction is currently underway on Palm Beach County�s first non-profit, non-governmental, federally qualified Community Health Center. This full service medical care facility will provide healthcare to medically underserved children and families. The Center will increase access to medical care in the federally designated medically underserved areas (MUA) of West Palm Beach, Lake Worth, Lantana and Palm Springs. The Community Health Center will be located in a 29,000 square-foot building at 2330 South Congress Avenue in Palm Springs. An experienced non-profit consumer directed health care organization, Florida Community Health Centers, Inc., will operate the Center according to federal guidelines. Four full-time primary care physicians, two pediatricians, four registered nurses, a pharmacist and two dentists will staff the center along with medical assistants and support personnel. The Community Health Center will increase access to medical care by providing extended office hours, including evening and weekend hours. |
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| Is this a project related to a federal or state declared disaster? |
No |
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| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
| Currently 226,000 men, women and children live without health insurance in Palm Beach County. The Community Health Center will provide medical, dental and pharmacy services to the County�s uninsured reducing the reported 17% of residents who are not accessing care by 8%. |
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$600,000 |
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| Total cost of the project: |
$8,500,000 |
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| Request has been made to fund: |
Construction |
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| What type of match exists for this project? |
Local, Private |
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Cash Amount |
$1,770,000 |
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| Was this project previously funded by the state? |
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No |
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| Is future-year funding likely to be requested? |
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No |
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| Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request? |
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No |
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| Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget? |
No |
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| Is there a documented need for this project? |
Yes |
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Documentation: |
Palm Beach County Health Assessment, A Profile of Uninsured Floridians, Analysis of Primary Care Cap |
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| Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)? |
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Yes |
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Hearing Body: |
Legislative Delegation, County Commission, Village of Palm Springs |
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| Is this a water project as described in Section 403.885, Laws of Florida? |
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No |
