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Underwood visits Mendota for Community Health Partnership project update · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Underwood visits Mendota for Community Health Partnership project update written
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  Speaker 1: by Matthias Werner. This article is being read by an
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  Speaker 1: automated voice brought to you by Everlett Representative. Lauren Underwood
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  Speaker 1: d Naperville was in Mendota on Wednesday, July eighth to
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  Speaker 1: promote the federal funding she secured for the Mendota Health Center.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier this year, Underwood announced that she had secured one million,
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  Speaker 1: fifteen thousand dollars in community project funding to help the
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  Speaker 1: Community Health Partnership of Illinois with the transformation of a
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  Speaker 1: new building. This health center has been a great resource
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  Speaker 1: in the community. Underwood d Naperville said, they are trusted,
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  Speaker 1: serve a real diverse clientele and have a statewide footprint
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  Speaker 1: that is really critical in this part of the district.
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  Speaker 1: Following a tour of the current and soon to be
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  Speaker 1: new facility, Underwood and her team delivered a strengthening rural
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  Speaker 1: health care for farmers and families in Mendota, checked to
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  Speaker 1: the Community Health Partnership's team. Community Health Partnership CEO Eli
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  Speaker 1: Sawyer said the funding is a huge help to the project,
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  Speaker 1: but is far from reaching the four dollars million plus
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  Speaker 1: price tag of the project. Community Health Partnership, currently located
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  Speaker 1: at ten zero nine Main Street, is looking to complete
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  Speaker 1: a move into a building at twelve zero one Main Street,
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  Speaker 1: the former location of a hardware store. The future site
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  Speaker 1: of the Mendota Health Center is a ten thousand, six
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty six square foot warehouse that will have
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  Speaker 1: expanded services for residents. We want this to be a
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  Speaker 1: one stop shop for the community to help with medical, dental,
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  Speaker 1: and behavioral health as well as social services, Sawyer said.
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  Speaker 1: So Sawyers emphasize that improved technology is a focus for
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  Speaker 1: the patient experience in the project's plans, with seamless Kiosk
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  Speaker 1: registrations and the implementation of epic and electronic medical records
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  Speaker 1: system designed to streamline continuity of care. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: be adding as much innovation as we can, and even
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  Speaker 1: if the funding doesn't allow for it today, it will
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  Speaker 1: be added in incremental stages, Sawyer said. A major funding
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  Speaker 1: milestone for the project comes on July fifteenth, when Community
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  Speaker 1: Health Partnership finds out if it will receive any additional
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  Speaker 1: grant funding from the State of Illinois. With a better
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  Speaker 1: understanding of the financial landscape, Sawyer said, the designs of
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  Speaker 1: what the new and improved Mendoda Health Center could include
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  Speaker 1: can become closer to reality. The nonprofit organization has received
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  Speaker 1: donations and benefits to support the project once it is
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  Speaker 1: further along. Since purchasing the twelve zero one Main Street
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  Speaker 1: building five years ago, Sawyer said her organization is working
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  Speaker 1: with Mendota City officials and Reimagine Mendota, as well as
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  Speaker 1: receiving input from community town halls about possible community embedded
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  Speaker 1: features for the center to have in addition to medical services.
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  Speaker 1: Among the current considerations are a community room, a homeless
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  Speaker 1: patient section, a collaborative food pantry, and a patient resource center.
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  Speaker 1: Another consideration for Sawyers and Community Health Partnership is whether
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  Speaker 1: to retain the current building. They currently lease the ten
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  Speaker 1: zero nine Main Street building, but could retain it or
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  Speaker 1: look to buy it for storage. For right now, this
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  Speaker 1: new location is going to be our only location, Sawyer said.
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  Speaker 1: If it happens that we find new funding later on,
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  Speaker 1: we could entertain the idea of buying the other one
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  Speaker 1: as well.