Saturday, May 24, 2025
5/24/2025
Ryan White Part C Outpatient EIS Program - Project Title: FY 2025 RWHAP Part C EIS Program Application Organization Name: County of Ingham, Health Department Address: 5303 South Cedar Street, Lansing, MI 48911 Project Director: Izabela Wackowski-Norris Contact Phone Numbers: (517) 887-4488 Email Address: iwackowski@ingham.org Web Site: www.chc.ingham.org Grant program funds requested: $349,622.00 The Ingham County Health Department (ICHD) operates a network of 330(e) Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) and Look-Alike Health Centers throughout the City of Lansing, Michigan. As a public entity and a FQHC, ICHD delivers highly effective, coordinated care available to the area’s most vulnerable populations through its Public Health Services and Community Health Centers. ICHD provides coordinated, comprehensive, culturally and linguistically competent services to patients regardless of their age, insurance status or ability to pay. Service area: The Ingham County Health Department service area is Ingham County, Michigan, including the urbanized region surrounding the City of Lansing. Need: Ingham County is home to only 2.92 percent of Michigan’s entire population, but has the second highest reported HIV prevalence rate in Michigan, outside of Detroit. With an estimated 11-25 percent of residents living with HIV/AIDS reporting unmet need for services, the greatest risk groups in Ingham County are Men who have sex with Men (MSM), and women from heterosexual contact with men. Ingham County is also home to one of seven refugee resettlement areas in Michigan. Between 400 and 700 refugees from over 40 countries are resettled in the Lansing area each year. Consequently, income and poverty rates within the service area reflect employment barriers encountered by this population. Approximately 17.6% of the Ingham County population, including 20% of children, reported living at or below poverty level over the previous 12 months in 2020. Target Population: ICHD will target low income individuals living with an HIV diagnosis within the service area of Ingham County, Michigan. ICHD will target its services to the populations at greatest risk and unmet need. Key services: Through this program ICHD proposes to use $349,622 of Part C funding in Year One to provide comprehensive HIV primary care on an outpatient basis to low income individuals living with HIV/AIDS for the entire service area of Ingham County, Michigan. Services provided through Part C funding when payments for such services from other sources/payers are otherwise unavailable include medical care, mental health services, oral health services, early intervention services and medical case management.
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