With the help of a $5 million federal grant, Jordan Valley Community Health Center is planning a sizable expansion of its 440 E. Tampa St. site.
The $8.1 million project comprises construction of a 30,300-square-foot facility on its campus, allowing for 46 exam rooms, three dental operators, two procedure rooms, provider offices, a pharmacy, a lab, X-ray services and seven intake/consult offices, according to a news release.
A groundbreaking ceremony likely will be held in late summer, said Brooks Miller, president and CEO of Jordan Valley Community Health Center.
With the expansion, the health center would add 13 new providers. Services at the facility would include an open access urgent care clinic staffed six days a week and 14 hours per day, with 10 medical and three dental exam rooms; a pain management clinic staffed by a full-time physician and two midlevel practitioners; and an adult medicine clinic, the release said.
The capital development grant funding is through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The additional funding will be financed either through loans or tax credits, said Miller said.
“With this building capacity grant, we’re improving access to care for our entire community," said Kevin Gipson, president of the Jordan Valley Community Health Center Board of Directors, in the release. "This grant and subsequent building project will allow Jordan Valley to keep pace with emerging community needs and help provide the traditionally underserved with a health care home."
The facility is expected to be completed in the fall of 2013. "Completion of the project will coincide with Jordan Valley’s 10-year anniversary, and in the past decade, we’ve experienced continuous, steady growth in the need for services in Springfield and surrounding communities," Gipson added.
After completing the new facility, the upper level of the health center's existing building would be remodeled to expand its pediatric and women's health services. The lower level would be renovated to accommodate 40 dental chairs, allowing the health center to consolidate its dental and oral surgery practices, the release said.
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