The center already has a list of three-month wait for new patients.
With the help of a $ 6 million from the federal center will add 40,000 square footfacility which will include 35 to 40 patient examination rooms. The proposed $ 8 million may be time finishedsome in 2012, said Dana Engle, the center of the CEO.
"I can assure you that the relatively unmet needs in Springfield to fill that patients facilitywith," he said. "There 's such a dramatic need in the community."
Federal health officials announced $ 727million grants yesterday to help the community healthcenters 143 countries.
Rocking Horse is one of three centers in Ohio to receive the federal health-reformmoney.
Family Healthcare Inc. in Perry County has received $ 2.6 million to build a health center a few milesfrom an existing site in New Lexington, said Julie King DiRossi Centers Ohio Association ofCommunity health.
And Lorain County Health and Dentistry has received $ 6.6 million to renovate and expand a health club to 5000 square feet.
These projects will help the centers serve a combined 22,000 new patients.
"People of the economic circumstances have changed, they 're no longer be assured," said RandyRunyon, president of the Ohio Association of Community Health Centres. "There are many peoplewho are very desperate at this point in time."
There are about 7,900 community health centers that serve nearly 19 million patients nationwide.About 40 percent of these patients are uninsured.
In Ohio, there are more than 160 health centers that provide care to 475,000 patients lastyear. Patients are charged on a sliding scale.
Federal health reform allocates $ 11 billion for community health centers within five years.
This is in addition to over 2 billion dollars given stimulus communityhealth centers last year to expand services or construction projects funds. centers in Ohio has received $ 60 million of that money.
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