Wednesday, April 2, 2025
4/2/2025
Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction - CRNA seeks funds to produce engineering and architectural plans for a Level V trauma center and urgent care expansion to an existing Primary Care Clinic facility. Currently, no trauma care services are offered, which means accidents and illnesses require patients travel a minimum of 3 hours’ drive away. The closest trauma/ emergency care available is in Valdez, 144 miles to the south or in the Mat-Su, 149 miles to the west. In FY22 CRNA contracted with Baker Tilly US, LLP, a consulting firm to help with the planning and design of a potential facility expansion for urgent/trauma care. This process of data collection and analyzation showed that the Copper River Region needs an expansion to urgent care facility space to handle lower-acuity, community-acquired, infectious disease-related symptoms, and an additional Level V trauma center specializing in treatment, stabilization, and transfer of more emergent patients by medevac. The combined Urgent Care and Trauma Facility will be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, will be more accessible than primary care, and will treat a wide range of illnesses and injuries. The facility will also contribute to the emergency preparedness and resilience of the region in the face of pandemic level disasters. Funds for Engineering and Architecture will be used to finalize construction documents which will include drawings for civil, structural, mechanical, electrical and landscape engineering. Copper River Native Association’s Engineering & Architecture ER Expansion project will jumpstart CRNA’s plans for securing construction funding in FY25 and FY26.
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).