Tuesday, April 29, 2025
4/29/2025
Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction - Ironbound Community Health Center Inc. EIN: 85-0829120 UEI: RR9MNBG52Q89 d/b/a Hope & Esperanza Community Health Center Michelle Lolo, CEO Phone: 973-433-9773 788 Mt. Prospect Ave, Floor 2 mlolo@hechealth.com www.hechealth.com Newark, NJ 07104 Congressionally Directed Spending Construction Project Funding Request: $550,000 Ironbound Community Health Center, d/b/a Hope & Esperanza Community Health Center (ICHC) is a community 501(c)(3) non-profit organization operating a non-profit community health center at 788 Mount Prospect Avenue, Floor 2, Newark, NJ 07104 since March 2021. ICHC provides comprehensive, culturally appropriate primary and preventive medical and behavioral health services to the vulnerable low-income and uninsured population of the Newark service area, which are primarily of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, and/or Black/African American race. Greater than 75% of the low-income population has not received appropriate healthcare in our Newark service area, and ICHC is working to meet their healthcare needs and expand their access to healthcare and increase services to our community. We offer one-stop shopping for our predominantly low-income, vulnerable, medically underserved patient population of all races and ethnicities, and provide services to all regardless of their ability to pay. We provide healthcare to patients of all life cycles (babies to adults), and provide prenatal, child, adolescent, adult and elderly care. ICHC offers a sliding fee discount to patients based on their household income and size to help make access to healthcare affordable and accessible. ICHC is working towards Ambulatory Care Facility (ACF) licensure with the New Jersey Department of Health. The site requires minor renovation of a bathroom, air conditioning work to introduce fresh air into the facility, and sprinkler system renovation to meet the ACFL requirements. The renovations will improve our facility environment and safety standards, and help to maximize the efficient use of our 6,054 square foot site. Approximately $289,200 of the $550,000 of this requested Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) appropriation will be used to contract for completion of the alterations and renovations as part of a Modernization project. The remaining $260,800 will be used to purchase moveable Equipment to complete the furnishing and equipping of our exam rooms (8 of the 12 rooms require equipment, 4 are already equipped), and to purchase advanced diagnostic and treatment equipment for use in the healthcare of our patients, as well as some office and IT needed equipment for operations. The equipment will give greater access and flexibility in care for our patients through increasing our useable exam rooms from 4 to 12, and give our providers more tools for patient diagnosis and treatment, as well as improved telehealth and patient education capabilities. The Modernization and the Equipment to be funded by this Congressionally Directed Spending will directly impact and improve the Newark low-income and uninsured, vulnerable population, and provide them with greater access to healthcare and behavioral health services, and increase more advanced diagnostic care availability in the office setting, helping to reduce non-appropriate use of hospital emergency departments and improve the patient’s health care management and their health outcomes. ICHC recognizes that the diagnostic medical equipment and increased capacity and a state-of-the-art facility play an important role in providing essential healthcare to our patients, especially during this COVID19 pandemic, and beyond it to provide the best care to patients in the most appropriate setting, our clinic. ICHC understands that improving access to healthcare improves the overall health and quality of life of our target low-income, underserved population.
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