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One-Stop Shop for Mind and Body
| Topics |
Dental health
Health services
Mental health
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| States served |
Michigan
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| Description |
Baldwin Family Health Care (BFHC), a federally qualified rural health center, is combining health care and human services into a new 21,000-square-foot building designed to simplify access to care in this Newaygo County community. It opened in March, 2006.
As the community’s needs outgrew its current 3,100-square-foot health center in Grant, the BFHC board of directors moved to improve the situation by applying for a low-interest, $4 million loan through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Community Facilities Direct Loan Program. The terms of the loan are 4.25 percent for 30 years.
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| Services offered |
The new facility has many amenities that the old one did not, including a private mental health counseling area, a diagnostic laboratory, a complete X-ray facility, a dental center with nine exam rooms, a full-service pharmacy with prescription discount programs for low-income and elderly patients who do not have prescription drug coverage, and space for individual and group health education sessions. Programs will include Alzheimer’s education and referral, teen parent services, immunizations, well-child care, behavioral health and comprehensive diabetes education. |
| Results |
Staffing in Grant will grow from 16 to 42, which will include additional medical providers, dentists, a pharmacist and support staff. |
| Source |
Rural Monitor Newsletter, Winter 2006
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| Contact person |
Ann Featherstone
Phone: (231) 745-4624 ext 504
E-mail: afeatherstone@familyhealthcare.org |
| Date added |
June 7, 2007 |
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