Friday, April 4, 2025
4/4/2025
Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction - Project Name: Congressionally Directed Spending-AIDS Care Group Purpose: Capital Expansion Project to Support AIDS Care Group’s Center of Integrative Medicine in the City of Chester to Provide Opioid Use Disorder and Mental Health Services; Test and Treat for STDs, HIV, and Hepatitis C; and Serve as a Clinical Training Site for Widener University Doctoral Candidates in Psychology. Amount of Congressionally Directed Spending funds allocated: $1,000,000 Location of Project: 2304 Edgmont Avenue City of Chester, 19013 - Delaware County; PA-05 Summary of the Project: Facility expansion of former medical practice in the City of Chester to improve access and quality of care for local residents needing opioid use disorder care, medication assisted therapies, and mental health counseling. Abstract Narrative: Project funding is directed exclusively to capital expansion within a building currently owned by AIDS Care Group in the City of Chester. The capital expansion will triple the utilizable space through restoration and modernization; accommodate handicap accessibility, bring the building into conformity with local building codes, and allow for the expansion of clinical services to residents of Chester and surrounding communities within PA-05 who are in need of treatment for opioid use disorders. Funding through this project will allow AIDS Care Group to have the facility to expand medication assisted treatment, psychological services (both individual and group counseling), and medical treatment on site (screening, testing and treatment for STDs, Hepatitis C and HIV). To invest in the City of Chester, Delaware County, PA is to recognize accelerating needs for an underserved community desperately trying to extricate itself from multiple deteriorating public health markers and other social determinants of health. Among these markers are rising rates of STDs, hepatitis C, opioid use disorders, mental health disorders, and HIV/AIDS. AIDS Care Group has been a federally-funded medical provider agency with its principal offices in the City of Chester since January 1998. Over 3,500 patients have been served and currently there are over 1,000 receiving care for HIV/AIDS and another 550 patients who have received services for opioid use disorders, hepatitis C, or STD testing and treatments. Opportunities made available from Community Project Funding will help to serve as economic engines to convert dreams into reality to provide facilities that will be rapidly deployed to increase services, help train future clinicians, re-invest in workforce expansion, and work with underserved populations desperately in need of specialty services in the areas of STDs, hepatitis C, opioid use disorders, and mental health.
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