Monday, April 28, 2025
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Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction - Project Name: Generator Project Requested award amount: $521,000.00 Applicant organization name: Greene County Hospital & Nursing Home Organization address: 509 Wilson Avenue, Eutaw, AL 35462 Organization facility type: Small Rural Hospital & Residential Care Center Organization designation: Greene County as well as the contiguous counties served are all Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) and Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs) per data.HRSA.gov Project Director: Marcia Pugh, DNP, MSN, MBA, HCM, RN Title: CEO/Administrator Project Director contact information: telephone-205-372-3388 ext. 101 email: marcia.pugh@gcheutaw.com Target service area: Greene, and the contiguous counties of Sumter, Hale, Marengo and Pickens, AL. All are in the rural Blackbelt area. Greene County Hospital and Nursing Home is the only healthcare facility of its type located in Greene County. It serves a population of 7,422 with 79.6% of that population listed as Black or African American. Twenty-five percent (25%) of the population is over 65 years of age and 22% of the population under 65 with disability. Background: Greene County Hospital & Nursing Home is located in an intensely weather ravaged area of Alabama. The county has been hit by three tornadoes in the past year with other storms that have ravaged the area. Greene County Hospital & Nursing Home is an integral part of the Greene County Hazard Mitigation Plan of the county’s emergency management. Problem: Greene County Hospital & Nursing Home is the only hospital in Greene County. Whenever there are storms or inclement weather that interrupts power in the area, the Hospital must be able to provide emergency care and the Nursing Home must be able to provide care to its elderly residents. The organization also is within 5 miles of Interstate 20/59 which extends 241 miles from North to lower Southwest Alabama. The Greene County Hospital is critical in meeting the needs of motor vehicle accident victims during all types of weather. The healthcare teams in both areas must be able to operate all emergency equipment and provide the necessary heliport lighting for air transport of patients. The present generators are twenty-five years old and are no longer dependable. They require constant maintenance and repairs to ensure proper functioning whenever there are power interruptions. Routinely, a maintenance staff person must be called out to assure they are properly working during inclement weather. Objective: Greene County Hospital & Nursing Home strives to have dependable and code efficient generators that will operate without issue during inclement weather. Strategy: To replace the code deficient generators in the Hospital and Nursing Home with code efficient generators that have a secondary fuel source. Significance: Receipt of the award of $521,000.00 will allow Greene County Hospital and Nursing Home the ability to provide continuous, quality care to the communities served during any type of weather and during power outages of any kind. It is significant that the organization have a reliable secondary power source for unforeseen situations and circumstances. The ability to give the communities served as well as those traveling through our state with continuous medical care as well as emergency care is critical.
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