The Flint Hills Community Health Center board of directors on Tuesday approved a grant application that, if approved, will bring just more than $77,000 to the clinic.
Lougene Marsh, executive director of Flint Hills Community Health Center, said this morning the Legislature appropriated $700,000 for safety-net clinics for clinic-improvement projects. The maximum amount a clinic can request is $100,000 and the money can be used for brick and mortar projects or technology projects. The Flint Hills Community Health Center is preparing to upgrade to electronic medical records. The health clinic will request the money to upgrade to equipment to handle those records. Marsh said it is a dollar-for-dollar matching grant.
“We actually came up with slightly more than a dollar for dollar match,” Marsh said.
Also during Wednesday’s meeting:
- The board approved the credentials of Paul McDonald, an internal medicine physician who will start with the clinic on Aug. 1 in primary care.
- Michael Mawdsley, medical director, put in a written report that the Shrine Bowl free medical screening clinic will be from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday. Mawdsley and Michael Yost, an orthopedist, will be volunteering their time to the clinic.
watson_87 (anonymous) says...
You know, I don't agree with them getting that money...I was 18 years old and at the time I was not doing well with finances at all so I went there to get checked out...The bill was supposed to be based on my income, but I only worked 20 hours a week at minimum wage at the time and my bill was 350 dollars...I could have went to the dr. for less than that. When I walked in there were no other white people but me. I am not racist whatsoever, I believe that because I was white and could speak english i got to foot the bills of others that couldn't. I will never go there again and advise others not to either..
July 23, 2008 at 2:01 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )