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Project Name: Health Center Program (H80)
Applicant Title: Centerville Clinics, INCORPORATED
Abstract Text: Applicant: Centerville Clinics, Inc., 1070 Old National Pike Road, Fredericktown, PA 15333; Project Director: Barry Niccolai, Executive Director; Phone: xxx-xxx-xxxx; Fax: xxx-xxx-xxxx; Email: xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx; URL: www.centervilleclinics.com; Congressional Districts: 14; Grant program funds requested: HRSA Bureau of Primary Health Care Health Center Program; Service Area Identification Number: 164 Fredericktown, Pa 15333 Background: Centerville Clinics was established in 1955 to address the lack of access to affordable, quality primary health care in our community. In 1976, Centerville was designated a Community Health Center (FQHC) to ensure that low-income and medically un/underinsured have access to quality medical, dental, and behavioral health care and diagnostic services regardless of ability to pay. Centerville Clinics is an integrated health care network providing access to specialty care, comprehensive diagnostic services and support services regardless of ability to pay. Centerville complies with Health Center Program requirements, of section 330 of the PHS. Population Groups to be served: We touch 1 in 10 residents of the service area, compared to the state FQHC average of 1 in 16. The service area is the rural counties of Washington, Greene, and Fayette in southwest Pennsylvania. Fayette and Greene are two of the least healthy and poorest counties in Pennsylvania. The population groups served include the rural, poor, low-income, uninsured and elderly. Nine MUAs/MUP are located within our service area. Three Communities (Donora, Charleroi, Bentleyville) have been designated “Health Equity Zones (HEZ)”. by the Pennsylvania Department of Health Regional Accountable Health Councils. These communities have been identified as having high levels of health disparities and inequities. Summary of the major health care needs and barriers to care to be addressed: Diabetes, Heart Disease, Substance Use Disorders, and Obesity are health disparities and the most significant causes of morbidity or mortality. Barriers (geographical and financial) to continued access to affordable, quality primary health care services are addressed through the convenient, accessible primary health care service and sliding fee discount program. Services Proposed: Centerville Clinics proposes to continue the as a FQHC, that directly provides continued access to all required primary health services available and accessible in the service area regardless of ability to pay. 40,782 unduplicated patients are projected to be served in calendar year 2024 (January 1 through December 31, 2024). Centerville’s multi-site, multi-service model offers low-income and medically un/underinsured patients access to primary and preventive medical, dental, and behavioral health care with an integrated network of specialty care, comprehensive diagnostic services and support services. Our thirteen (13) primary health care offices are strategically located to minimize the transportation barrier to health care and provide access to all required services. Services include: Primary medical, dental, and behavioral health care services, sliding fee discount program, specialty medical clinics, moderately complex (CLIA non-waived) lab tests, x-rays, digital mammograms, EKG, Exercise Blood Gases, Pulmonary Function Studies, Black Lung Clinic Program, Breast/Cervical Cancer Screening, community health fairs and flu clinics, 340b pharmacy with full-time pharmacist. Provider staff include: 14 primary care physicians, 4 dentists, 1 pharmacist, 17 mid-level providers, 5 psychiatrists and over 12 part-time medical specialists including psychology.