Congressionally Directed Spending for Construction Projects - Health Center: Greater Seacoast Community Health Project Address: 311 Route 108, Somersworth, NH 03878 Project Description: Greater Seacoast Community Health’s (Greater Seacoast) mission is to deliver innovative, compassionate, integrated health services and support that are accessible to all in our community, regardless of ability to pay. Greater Seacoast includes two federally qualified health centers with locations in Portsmouth and Somersworth, NH, a mobile healthcare program for unhoused families, a Family Resource Center of Quality, and the Strafford County Public Health Network. Our services include primary care, pediatrics, dental care, prenatal care, behavioral health counseling, substance use disorder treatment, mobile health services, Women, Infants, and Children program, social work services, a pharmacy, parenting classes, playgroups, and home visiting. We serve approximately 15,000 people living in eastern Rockingham County, Strafford County, New Hampshire, and York County, Maine. Services are open to everyone and aim to be respectful, inclusive, recovery-friendly, LGBTQ-affirming, and trauma-informed. Our project involves continuing capital projects made possible with American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) capital project funding. ARPA funding created more primary care and behavioral health space to enhance workflow and address growth. These projects reduced staff meeting and storage space, which were constrained before the ARPA-funded project. The current project will help address these ongoing space constraints at the health center and support employee safety and engagement. Specifically, our proposed CPF/CDS project will modify and renovate approximately 1,200 square feet within the existing health center. No square footage outside the health center’s current footprint will be added. Our planned activities include altering space to create staff meeting space, call center space, storage space for clinical and program supplies, reconfiguring a second-floor reception area, and moving and adding controlled access doors to enhance security.
