Saturday, April 19, 2025
4/19/2025
Congressionally Directed Spending for Construction Projects - Centerville Clinics, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC),is requesting your support for an appropriation of $1,053,000.00 to renovate a building recently acquired to provide comprehensive medical services to the residents of Donora, Pennsylvania. The Regional Accountable Health Council (RAHC) identified Donora as a Health Equity Zone. Donora was identified as 1 of 3 zip code areas in Washington County that have the highest health disparities, income, and other barriers to good health outcomes. Centerville Clinics is the only full time primary medical care provider in the Donora Area. Centerville opened an office in Donora in November of 2019 to address the need for primary medical care services. The current facility is substandard and in deplorable condition. The Donora community, many of which are low income and un/underinsured, deserve a modern, well equipped medical home. Currently 95% of our current patients treated in our Donora office are covered under Medicare, Medicaid or are uninsured. Centerville’s Donora office is a 20 x 100-foot storefront building that is not handicapped accessible and is in poor condition. An architectural and engineering study determined that this location cannot be brought into compliance with current building codes, handicap accessibility and medical standards. We find it next to impossible to recruit physicians due to the state of our current facility. Centerville Clinic recently purchased a 10,080 square foot office space in Donora. This building requires renovations so that a portion of the building (4,063 square feet) can be repurposed as a primary medical care office. This new medical clinic would provide the space needed for 2 medical providers, lab services, and behavioral health services that the current facility cannot accommodate. Centerville acquired this location at a cost of $437,895.00 and are requesting a special appropriation of $1,053,000.00 to renovate the facility. Founded in 1955, Centerville Clinics, Inc. is a Federally Qualified Healthcare Center (FQHC) providing medical, dental and behavioral health services to 40,000 patients in Greene, Washington, and Fayette Counties. We are a 501c3 non-profit organization with a patient majority Board of Directors who strives to provide high quality, compassionate care to the underserved and the uninsured.
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