
{"id":6408,"date":"2009-07-09T10:09:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T18:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=6408"},"modified":"2009-07-09T10:09:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T18:09:43","slug":"piedmont-health-services-to-receive-15-million-in-stimulus-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/07\/09\/piedmont-health-services-to-receive-15-million-in-stimulus-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Piedmont Health Services to receive $1.5 million in stimulus money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Kirk Ross<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Carrboro-based Piedmont Health Services will receive $1,531,035 from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.<\/p>\n<p>The funds are part of $20 million in stimulus money for community health centers in North Carolina announced last week by the office of U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nPiedmont CEO Brian Toomey said the funds come at an important time, as demand for the clinics are increasing.<\/p>\n<p>Toomey said the demand started to jump even before the downturn in the economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Since the economy tanked,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153that demand has exploded.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Piedmont operates six clinics in Alamance, Chatham, Orange and Caswell counties. Like most community health centers, Piedmont\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clinics charge for services on a sliding scale.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to more patients seeking lower-cost health care, Toomey said there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been an increase due to the success of a pilot program between Piedmont and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p>The number of seniors using Piedmont has also increased, Toomey said. Patients on Medicare \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hitting the doughnut hole\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Medicare Part D are seeking ways to lower prescription drug prices. To take advantage of Piedmont\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lower pharmacy costs, he said many seniors are signing on as patients at the clinics.<\/p>\n<p>According to Toomey, the bulk of the stimulus money, about $1.1 million, will go to replace an aging facility in Prospect Hill, which is located near the Orange and Caswell county line.<\/p>\n<p>Another $150,000 is slated for equipment and expansion at the Carrboro clinic, including three additional examination rooms. Piedmont, which uses an electronic medial records system, will also purchase two back-up generators so that clinics can have access to records in case of long-term power outages. The stimulus grant will also pay for about $300,000 of upgrades and new equipment for the records system. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kirk Ross Staff Writer Carrboro-based Piedmont Health Services will receive $1,531,035 from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The funds are part of $20 million in stimulus money for community health centers in North Carolina announced last week by the office of U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6409,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions\/6409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}