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CONSIDERATION OF A GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $500,000 TO THE HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION (HRSA), ON BEHALF OF GRACEMED HEALTH CLINIC, TO BUILD A NEW SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CENTER AT JARDINE MIDDLE SCHOOL, LOCATED IN WICHITA, KANSAS, FOR THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Presented by: Claudia Blackburn, Health Director, Sedgwick County Health Department.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve the application for the grant, and if awarded, authorize acceptance of the grant and the establishment of budget authority as provided in the Financial Considerations section of this Request.
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Grant Renewal: No
Never Applied: No
Applied; not awarded: No
Grant Summary and Timeline: The Health Department has partnered with GraceMed Health Clinic, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), to ensure the provision of quality health care for underserved children in Wichita since 1998. In 2010, the Health Department agreed to act as a sponsoring organization for GraceMed to receive a two-year HRSA School-based Health Care Capital (SBHCC) grant to partially fund the architectural, site preparation and construction costs to build a new 4,500 square foot school-based health center at Cloud Elementary School. The Cloud Clinic, which replaced the Evergreen Health Clinic located adjacent to Cloud, is currently in design stages. The architect is scheduled to present the final drawings to USD 259 School Board at their next scheduled meeting. Once approved, USD 259 will solicit bids from general contractors to begin construction by November 2012, with a planned completion date of June 2013.
GraceMed respectfully requests the Health Department, again, act as the sponsoring organization for a new SBHCC grant from HRSA to build a new school-based clinic at Jardine Middle School, 3550 Ross Parkway, Wichita, KS, 67210. The target population for the new clinic includes 27,047 people living in eight census tracts adjacent to the clinic.
Of these residents:
ยท 6,377 (or 23.5%) live at or ...
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