Friday, April 4, 2025
4/4/2025
Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction - Address: 1500 E. Anaheim Street, Long Beach, CA 90813 Project Director Name: Elisa Nicholas, MD, MSPH, CEO Contact Phone Numbers: Office (562) 264-3551 Fax (562) 216-6197 Email Address: enicholas@tccfamilyhealth.org Website Address: www.tccfamilyhealth.org Funds Requested: $575,000 The Children’s Clinic, “Serving Children & Their Families”, dba TCC Family Health (TCC) Community Project Funding / Congressionally Directed Spending project is to purchase and install Medical and Dental Equipment and Furnishings at our new Health and Wellness Center, TCC Family Health and Wellness, located in the Cambodia Town Neighborhood at 1500 E. Anaheim Street, Long Beach, CA 90813. This project will bring comprehensive health and wellness services to all ages through TCC’s trauma-informed and healing approach to a critically underserved community, while partnering to provide needed housing and supportive services. The site will also offer dental services, acupuncture, home visitation for parents with children 0-5 years of age, social services, telehealth services and care management services with an emphasis on those with chronic health conditions, such as diabetes, depression, obesity, and asthma. The health and wellness center will occupy 18,000 square feet of ground floor space including 15 medical exam rooms, 3 dental chairs, and a wellness center surrounding a 4,000 sq. ft. open courtyard. Also, recognizing the severe lack of affordable housing in the area, TCC partnered with BRIDGE Housing who will provide 88 units of co-located affordable and senior supportive housing above the health and wellness center. The target population for this new site reflects Long Beach’s diversity as a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-generational community including 60% Latinx/Hispanic; 15% Cambodian/Khmer; 12% Black; 7% White and 6% Asian. Additionally, 70% of residents within a one-mile radius of this site are low-income (below 200% Federal Poverty Level) and many are medically underserved with only 25% use a community health center. Three in five residents have a high rent burden, spending more than 30% of their income on housing, and people experiencing homelessness are on the rise. Today, more than one-half (57.9%) of Cambodian speakers in the area report that they do not Speak English “very well,” as do 42.9% of Spanish speakers. This area includes neighborhoods where more than 40% of residents live below the Federal poverty line. The core area within one mile of the site includes the most concentrated pocket of poverty in all of Los Angeles County - Service Planning Area (SPA) 8. TCC currently serves 7,000 patients in this area. Residents of this area struggle with historical trauma, social disintegration and racial discrimination, barriers that make self-sufficiency extremely difficult without concrete and supportive community agencies. This funding will ensure TCC has the resources to design, equip and furnish the new health and wellness space reflecting the communities and cultures we serve by funding a portion of the following moveable equipment: • Medical Equipment for 15 Exam Rooms: including exam room tables and other medical equipment and furnishings • Dental Equipment and furnishings for 3 Dental Chairs Operatory • Furniture and Furnishings for offices, lobbies and meeting spaces including Pacific Asian Counseling Services (PACS) offices, three conference rooms, children’s activity room, doctor offices, behavioral health offices and meeting room spaces • Health and Wellness Center Lobby Furniture This site will serve 9,000 patients per year during 28,800 medical visits and 9,600 social service and educational interactions per year. This funding will ensure TCC has the resources to design the new health and wellness center in a welcoming and trauma-informed manner reflecting the communities and cultures we serve and ultimately expand the quality of care this community needs and deserves for years to come.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).