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Healthy Connections, Inc 2009 Annual Report
Executive Director’s Corner
2009 proved to be a year of growth, opportunities and challenges. Unexpected, but welcome, financial resources became available through American Recovery and Reinvestment Act “stimulus” funding and state line item funding. All together, over one million dollars will be received to assist our efforts in providing quality health care for the uninsured.
Of course, each new funding source requires a whole new set of reporting requirements and additional clinical measures. In anticipation of this additional workload, Healthy Connections, Inc. has recruited several new providers and support staff. Although we can now serve more people, overcrowding is even more of an issue than in the past.
Fortunately, all the effort devoted to researching funding opportunities and responding to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s seemingly never-ending need for additional data and details has finally yielded tangible dividends. Despite Mother Nature’s best efforts to wash away the site with torrential rains and a tornado, work is now well underway with an anticipated completion date for our new facility of July 2010.
With this new facility, and the superior staff that comprises Healthy Connections, Inc. at every location, HCI is poised to play an even greater role in making our communities places where children “grow up with HOPE.”
2009 In a Glimpse
With the Federal government taking a proactive role in assuring health care access to Americans during this past year’s economic downturn, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) benefited many Health Centers including Healthy Connections Inc. (HCI). Through ARRA Increased Demand for Services Grant, HCI received $158,012 while receiving an additional $398,365 through ARRA Capital Improvement Grant. Adding this is Arkansas’ newly passed Tobacco funding which also benefits HCI. This State Line Item funding contributed $535,747 to provide services for uninsured patients and add additional staff to manage the increase in newly uninsured patients seeking services at Healthy Connections, Inc.
To read the entire Healthy Connections, Inc. 2009 Annual Report, you can view the PDF here.
:: February, 2010 ::
