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Community Health Center of Buffalo will replacse its aging center on Grider witha 40,000-square-foot supercenter on funded by a $4.2 million The $12 million project, which will offer a complete menu of supporty services provided through a collaborative effort by the Catholic Health is expected to open in September 2009. CHS will also be workingy on an emergency department expansionat , whicnh was awarded a $3.8 million grant. Both grants are among nearlyh $28 million awarded to Western New York nursing homes and other nonprofit health care providersd through the Health Care Efficiency and Affordability Law for NewYorkera (HEAL NY).
Statewide, $280 million was awarded to nursing homes and othernonprofit health-care providers for restructurinh projects. HEAL was passes in 2006 to support the mandates of the Commissio n on Health Care Financing in the 21stCenturyy (commonly known as the Berger The state has authorized up awards totaling $1 billiob in HEAL NY funds. the Catholic Health System receivexthe lion’s share of grants: $10.2 million, includint $1.49 million for for a primary care supercenter; and another $5 milliohn to take a look at its long-termn care facilities and how best to reconfigure the sites.
Dennias McCarthy, vice president for publi c relations andgovernment affairs, said the awarding of the grantas enable Catholic Health to begin some real In a prepared release, Joseph McDonald, CHS president and CEO, said now the systemm can move forward to develop the projects. “Thes e grants will help us continue to redesign healthcar delivery in our regioh and make further improvements to expand accese andenhance quality,” he said.
The collaboratived effort at the new Communityy Health Center will see Sisterswtransition 20,000 patient visits from its hospital-based Familgy Health Center to the CHC’s new site, with CHS providingy such services as laboratory, radiology, endocrinology and health education services. Moving the center from Sisters will open up spacs for the emergency department Sisters will continue to operatw a prenatal and obstetric care clinifc and offer other imaging services at the MainStreef site.
LaVonne Ansari, CEO and executiv e director ofthe CHC, said in a preparedc release the center will meet a growinv need for community-based “This is truly a collaborative effort amony health partners who share a commonn vision to serve those in especially those who are poor and uninsured,” she The state grants come through the next threwe phases for the HEAL NY program: Phase 6 awardd for primary care infrastructure projects; Phase 7 awards for capital restructuring initiatives; and Phase 8 awards for residential health care facility rightsizinh demonstration projects. • : $1.69 million to develop an inpatientf psychiatryunit • ( ): $1.
4 million for its Garden House senior housing apartment project • in Jamestown: $3.1 million for campuw expansion and bed consolidation A half dozen grants were awarded for smaller projects, includintg $183,918 to Aspire of WNY for an electronic medicapl records system; $388,739 for for its primary care $484,016 for the Finger Lakes Migrant Health Care Projectg Inc.; $493,286 to for construction of a primaryh care facility at the Horizon Village intensive residentia drug treatment center; and $500,000 to in Dansville for its imaging project.
Also, two grante of $609,320 and $336,025t to to expand primary care in Albionn and Lyndonville inOrleans $725,556 for Planned Parenthood of WNY for a renovation and infrastructur project at its Niagara Falls medical clinic; and $456,600 to TLC Health Network for a capital restructurinhg initiative for its long term home health care programn Telehealth Project.