Press Release Says, Alaska Health Clinics Receive $14 M from Recovery Act: Eastern Aleutian Tribes Gets $494,308

Posted: June 30th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: 2009, 2009

More than two dozen Alaska clinics supported in stimulus package

U.S. Senator Mark Begich today announced funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) for 26 health clinics across Alaska. Alaska will receive more than $14 million in capital improvement grants as part of an overall package of $851 million nationally to address immediate health center facility, equipment and service needs as well as create construction jobs across the country.

“The grants for these clinics will go a long way in improving the quality of health care across Alaska as well as create jobs in rural areas that desperately need a shot in the arm economically,” Sen. Begich said. “From the Aleutians to Kotzebue, significant investments will occur that will allow clinics to serve more patients and meet the ever-growing demand for quality health care.”

Overall the ARRA is providing a total of $2 billion in build or enhance health centers over a two-year period. The health centers in Alaska funded in the capital improvement grants announced today include:

Alaska Island Community Services (Wrangell) $450,562

Aleutian Pribilof Island Associations (Anchorage) $382,673

Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center $862,816

Bethel Family Clinic $416,333

Bristol Bay Area Health Corp. (Dillingham) $1,756,147

Bristol Bay Borough (Naknek) $417,909

Central Peninsula Health Centers, Inc. (Soldotna) $649,650

City of Galena $412, 857

Council of Athabascan Tribal Government (Ft. Yukon) $396,645

Cross Road Medical Center (Glennallen) $447,810

Eastern Aleutian Tribes, Inc. (Anchorage) $494,308

Iliuliuk Family & Health Services, Inc. (Unalaska) $597,434

Interior Community Health Center (Fairbanks) $680,909

Kodiak Island Health Care Foundation $433,571

Manillaq Association of Kotzebue $459,016

Mat-Su Health Services, Inc. (Wasilla) $435,577

Municipality of Skagway $401,119

Native Village of Eyak (Cordova) $424,697

Norton Sound Health Corp. (Nome) $632,165

Seldovia Village Tribe $466,958

Southcentral Foundation (Anchorage) $400,734

Southeast Alaska Regional Consort (Sitka) $603,901

The Sunshine Community Health Center (Talkeetna) $520,338

Tanana Chiefs Conference (Fairbanks) $378,220

Yakutat Tlingit Tribe $380,697

Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corp. (Bethel) $639,318

TOTAL: $14,142,364

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is expected to bring more than $1 billion to Alaska over the next two years, creating or sustaining some 8,000 jobs. Sen. Begich was a strong supporter of the legislation in the Senate and voted for its passage.

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