White House Awards Community Health Centers $500 Million for Improvements — $88 Million to Digitize Health Records
December 9, 2009 — Today President Obama announced
that the Administration was “awarding more than
$500 million to 85 community health centers in more
than 30 states and Puerto Rico.”
“We’re investing in places like Canyonlands Community Health Care in Arizona, that has one facility operating in a building originally constructed as a chicken coop and another in a cramped fire station. We’re investing in places like Avis Goodwin Community Health center in Dover, New Hampshire, that’s become so overcrowded the doctors are using bathrooms and closets as offices. We’re investing in Bucksport Regional Health Center in Maine, where doctors are double-booked and the waiting rooms are often standing room only. We’re giving places like these the funding they need to upgrade and expand their facilities so they can meet the skyrocketing demand for services that’s come with this economic downturn.”
Also, $88 million in funding will be made available “for centers to adopt new health information technology systems to manage their administrative and financial matters and transfer old paper files to electronic medical records.” Continue reading…
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