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For immediate release May 1, 2012 Contact Michael Briggs (202) 224-5141 First Site in Addison County Funded BURLINGTON, Vt., May 1 Vermont s first community health centerfacility in Addison County will be built and an Essex County sitewill be refurbished with $2.2 million in new Affordable Care Actgrants that the Vermont congressional delegation announced today. The Community Health Centers of the Rutland Region was awarded $1.3million to construct an office in Shoreham, Vt. The new AddisonCounty facility is to be built on a site where a 2010 fire, sparkedby lightning, destroyed the 200-year-old building that housed theoffice of the community s only physician. The satellite officewill be the first Federally Qualified Health Center site in therural county of 37,000 residents. Northern Counties Health Care, based in St.
Johnsbury, Vt., willreceive $874,668 in the latest round of grants under the AffordableCare Act. The funds are to expand and modernize a building inIsland Pond, Vt., to increase medical and dental space. With these two new grants, we continue to expand primary healthand dental care in the state of Vermont through the communityhealth center program, which now provides care to more than 110,000Vermonters. Our goal is to make sure that everyone in Vermont hasaccess to high-quality primary care regardless of income and we remaking real progress toward that goal, said U.S.
Sen. BernieSanders (I-Vt.). A Sanders provision in the 2010 health care law authorized $11billion to build, expand, and operate more community health centersnationwide. An additional $1.5 billion was allotted to increase thenumber of primary care providers in underserved areas.
The fundingfor these critical primary-care centers was designed to double to40 million the number of patients served by health centersregardless of their ability to pay. U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said, I know how essentialcommunity health centers are to Vermont s health careinfrastructure.
Rural areas, like much of Vermont, depend on thesevital community-based resources to ensure the availability oflocal, dependable health services, and I am pleased that thesegrants will strengthen our health care network to serveVermonters. U.S. Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) said, Community health services areintegral to ensuring all Vermonters have access to affordable,quality health care.
Increasing the availability of primary careservices in rural communities is good for Vermont and saves moneythrough investments in preventative care. Vermont leads the nationin providing quality health care to all its citizens regardless ofincome. These grants will ensure we continue this leading role. In Vermont, there are now eight federally qualified health centers.Each has satellite sites creating a total of 41 locations treatingmore than 110,000 patients, a greater percentage of the totalpopulation than any other state.
A nearly-completed $11.3 millionproject will double the size of the Community Health Centers ofBurlington, the state s largest. That expansion was designed toallow the center to treat another 3,500 patients, a 25 percentincrease. Another $10 million in federal funds was previouslyawarded to other Vermont health centers to hire more staff andrenovate facilities. Nationwide, the health care law already has supported 190construction and renovation projects at health centers andsupported the creation of 67 new health center sites across thecountry. During the next two years, the law will support more than485 new health center construction and renovation projects andcreate at least 245 new community health center sites.
Open to everyone, the centers care for patients covered byMedicaid, Medicare and private insurance, as well as those who haveno insurance. Payments are on a sliding scale, so people with lowor moderate incomes can afford the services. I am Jacket writer, reports some information about adhesive stair treads , tumbled travertine pavers.
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