[StBernard] Landrieu Announces $104M for La. Primary Care Services

[Westley Annis]

Landrieu Announces $104M for La. Primary Care Services 

 

WASHINGTON - United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu today announced that
Louisiana will receive $104 million in primary health care grants, including
a first installment of $16.7 million for 25 New Orleans area organizations. 

"Primary care services are critical to keeping people healthy and ensuring
that disease is treated from the beginning, rather than waiting until
emergency care is necessary," Sen. Landrieu said. "This money will help
restore New Orleans primary care services that are even more vital as we
recover from the 2005 hurricanes, and will support the development of
medical homes, ensuring better care for people with the most need."

The $100 million in Primary Care and Access Stabilization Grants (PCASGs)
will be focused on restoring, stabilizing and expanding organizations in
Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes. Expanded services
will include medical and mental health care, substance abuse treatment, oral
health care and optometric health care. The City of New Orleans Health
Department will receive $4 million.

Louisiana will also receive $3.9 million in grants for Federally Qualified
Health Centers (FQHCs), which deliver preventive and primary care services
to low-income and medically underserved communities and charge patients
according to income. Four in 10 patients treated at these centers have no
insurance coverage and many more have inadequate coverage. The Health
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) administers New Access Point
grants to help establish new centers.

Louisiana has historically received few FQHC grants, and Sen. Landrieu has
for years been pushing for grant distribution based on an area's need. Sen.
Landrieu and other lawmakers' efforts to highlight inadequacies in the
distribution process led to this year's creation of High Poverty County New
Access Point Grants that focus on the need of a particularly geographic
area. Five Louisiana centers will receive these new grants as a result.

"It's about time these grants were distributed based on a region's need,
rather than how perfect a grant application looks," Sen. Landrieu said.

The following 25 Louisiana organizations will receive Primary Care and
Access Stabilization Grants:

Applicant Organization

Grant Amount

Common Ground Health Clinic

$282,294

Jefferson Parish Human Services Authority

$719,849

Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans

$290,763

Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans (MCLNO)

$719,849

NO/AIDS Task Force

$273,825

Leading Edge Services International, Inc. D/B/A Family Health Center

$331,695

Children's Hospital Medical Practice Corp

$719,849

Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans

$719,849

Sisters of Mercy Ministries dba Mercy Family Center

$493,308

St. Thomas Community Health Center

$719,849

Lower 9th Ward Health Clinic

$310,523

Covenant House

$239,950

New Orleans Musicians' Assistance Foundation

$289,351

Administrators of Tulane Educational Fund 

$719,849

LSU Healthcare Network Behavioral Science Center

$642,218

EXCELth, Inc.

$698,677

Jefferson Community Health Care Centers, Inc.

$719,849

LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans (School Based Health Center

$275,236

Odyssey House Louisiana, Inc.

$471,078

St. Charles Community Health Center - Kenner

$606,932

St. Bernard Health Center, Inc

$719,849

Plaquemines Medical Center

$437,555

New Orleans Adolescent Hospital and Community Services

$599,874

Metropolitan Human Services District

$719,849

City of New Orleans Health Department

$4,000,000

  

  

The following five Louisiana centers will receive High Poverty County New
Access Point Grants:

Organization

City

Amount

Parish served

Primary Care Providers for Healthy Feliciana

Clinton

$750,000

East Feliciana

St. Helena Community Health Center

Greensburg 

$525,000

Livingston

SW Louisiana Center for Health Services

Lake Charles

$487,500

Lafayette

Iberia Comprehensive CHC

New Iberia

$469,954

St. Martin

David Raines Community HC

Shreveport

$750,000

Bossier

 

The following three Louisiana organizations will receive High Poverty County
Planning Grants, giving them the ability to write proposals to become FQHCs:

Organization

City

Amount

Parish served

Louisiana Primary Care Association

Baton Rouge

$80,000

Sabine

Louisiana Primary Care Association

Baton Rouge 

$80,000

Union

South Cameron Memorial Hospital Foundation

Cameron

$80,500

Cameron

 

 Morehouse Community Medical Centers in Bastrop, La., will receive a
$700,560 New Access Point Grant.

 

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