DCPCA NEWS - CAPITAL GRANTS TO DC HEALTH CENTERS

Six CHCs Receive Small Capital Grants Totaling $452,000
DC Primary Care Association, May 6, 2009

DCPCA announced the award of small capital grants to six community health centers in DC.  In making its selections, DCPCA worked with its advisor, the NY-based Primary Care Development Corporation.  The awardees, wards, grant totals, and project descriptions are as follows: Bread for the City (Ward 2) was awarded $35,000 to purchase new vehicles; Community of Hope (Ward 1) will receive $27,000 to upgrade its technological infrastructure and begin to prepare for implementation of electronic health records; Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care (Ward 4) was awarded $100,000 to upgrade its Internet technology infrastructure; Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington (Ward 2) will receive $85,000 to replace and add medical equipment and renovate and improve patient and staff areas; SOME (So Others Might Eat) (Ward 5) was awarded $55,000 to replace miscellaneous clinical equipment furniture and undehttp://dcpca.org/index.php/News-Press-Releases/rtake miscellaneous facility upgrades (e.g., roof repair, painting, carpet replacement, floor tile repair, and cleaning); and Whitman-Walker Clinic (wards 2 & 8) will receive $150,000 to renovate its waiting and check-in areas in the Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center and the Max Robinson Center. For more info on these grants, contact \n Robin Halsband , DCPCA’s director of Capital Projects, at (202) 638-0252 (extension 204).

This article originally appeared in DCPCA News on May 6, 2009.