Monday, May 5, 2025
5/5/2025
Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction - Organization Mailing Address: Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center, PO Box 6149, Aloha, OR, 97007 Project Address: Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center – Newberg Clinic, 2251 E Hancock St, Ste 103 in Newberg, OR, 97132 Project Director: Gil Munoz, Chief Executive Officer Contact Phone Number: 503-214-1600 Email Address: info@vgmhc.org Website: www.virginiagarcia.org Grant program funds requested: $2,124,000 Project Description: The project will expand and modernize the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center Newberg Clinic, increasing the clinic’s capacity to meet growing demand for integrated primary care services in Newberg, Oregon and surrounding communities. Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center is a Community Health Center and Migrant Health Center, and has a mission to provide high quality, comprehensive, and culturally appropriate primary health care to the communities of Washington and Yamhill counties with a special emphasis on migrant and seasonal farmworkers and others with barriers to receiving health care. Of the 2,900 patients served at the Newberg clinic before the expansion, 59% live at or below the poverty level, 57% receive Medicaid, and over 21% are uninsured. In addition to serving people living in the growing town of Newberg, the clinic draws patients from the growing suburban areas Portland to the east, and from rural communities reaching west toward the coast range. Across this wide-ranging patient population, over nine different languages are spoken, with 40% of patients speaking Spanish as their primary language. The clinic expansion will double capacity to provide dental and medical services through both in-person and virtual care, expand the pharmacy, and integrate these services under one roof. The project will add exam rooms, negative pressure exam rooms, dental operatories, rooms for patient consultations and telehealth, larger lab and phlebotomy spaces, separate medical and dental sterilization areas, and room for patient education classes. The larger space will accommodate expanded staff roles such as case managers, community health workers and behavioral health providers, and foster increased collaborative care management and training of residents and other learners. The expansion will also address sustainability and air quality challenges. These measures will help ensure the clinic can stay open despite power outages and hazardous outdoor air quality caused by increasingly common forest fires and extreme weather, and provide the clinic with high quality indoor air ventilation and filtration to protect patients and staff against airborne disease.
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