Fiscal Year 2025 Expanded Hours. - Promise Healthcare is proposing to expand the hours of operation at four of its primary care clinics through additional evening and weekend hours. Promise will expand the existing hours of operation to be open an additional 34.25 hours each week. The proposed additional hours of operation are based on the need of the target population for expanded evening and weekend hours to be able to access primary medical, behavioral health, substance use disorder services, and oral health services. Funding will support 11.5 new hours each week at the Rantoul School Based Health Center that adds expanded evening and new Saturday hours for medical and behavioral health services; 12.75 hours per week at the Frances Nelson Health Center with additional evening and Saturday hours for medical, behavioral health, SUD/OUD, and dental services; 7 hours per week added at the Neil Street Health Center for medical and behavioral health; and 3 hours added in the evenings at the Urbana School Health Center for medical and behavioral health services. The Champaign County 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment found access to care was the top concern impacting local residents’ well-being and that 18% of local residents did not have access to medical care when needed, 20% to dental care when needed and 23% to counseling when needed. Promise is a Federally Qualified Health Center that serves a target low-income, minority, and un/under-insured population who resides throughout Champaign County, Illinois. For over 54 years, Promise has been the primary safety-net health care provider in Champaign County delivering integrated health care services to approximately 10,000 low-income, un/underinsured, homeless and vulnerable individuals with almost 45,000 encounters annually. Promise serves a diverse patient population where more than 86% of patients identify as a racial or ethnic minority. Health center patients identify as Hispanic/Latino (35.3%), Black (31.1%), Asian/Pacific Islander (4.2%), and non-Hispanic White (13.6%). Additionally, almost one in six patients served are experiencing homelessness (14.8%) and almost one out of five patients do not have health insurance (18.7%).
