Tuesday, February 4, 2025
2/4/2025
Expanded Hours (HRSA-25-084) Family Health Center of Southern Oklahoma, Inc. 610 E. 24th St. Tishomingo, OK 73460-3245 Tina Davis, Chief Executive Officer 580-371-2343 (phone) Email address: tdavis@fhcso.org Web site: www.fhcso.org U.S. Congressional Districts: Oklahoma-002 Funding Request: $500,000/year for two years Family Health Center of Southern Oklahoma, Inc. (FHCSO) has served the Oklahoma counties of Atoka, Coal, Johnston, and Marshall since 2004. FHCSO operates four permanent clinic sites and according to the 2023 Uniform Data System report served 9,734 patients. Services provided include primary and preventive medical care, dental, mental health services, and pharmacy services. All counties in FHCSO’s service areas are rural according to the HRSA Rural Grants Eligibility Analyzer. Consequently, access to health care services is limited outside of traditional hours and the community is in need expanded hours access for health center services. Through this proposal, FHCSO will increase the hours of clinic operation at its Tishomingo and Atoka clinic locations, including extended hours on Friday until 6:00 p.m., Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and Sundays from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. FHCSO’s clinics are not currently open during these times, and these would be expanded hours of operation for each of these clinic sites. Through this Expanded Hours project, FHCSO will expand access to primary medical care services during non-traditional clinic hours. Staffing to achieve these expanded hours will be through directly-employed providers and support staff including: 1.0 FTE Nurse Practitioner (0.5 FTE at each clinic location), 1.0 FTE Nurse to support the provider staff (0.5 FTE at each clinic location), 1.0 FTE Patient Support Staff (0.5 FTE at each clinic location), and 1.0 FTE Office Manager to support both clinics during after-hours. Each clinic site will provide 20 additional hours of access/week.
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