Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #38

Dunbar Center Pilot Project and Study

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Requester:

Lalai Hamric

Organization:

Family Health Centers of Southwest Florida

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Title:

Dunbar Center Pilot Project and Study

Date Submitted:

01/13/2000 10:54:02 AM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

District Member:

Burt Saunders

Service Area:

Neighborhood/Community

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Counties Affected:

Lee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recipient:

Family Health Centers of Southwest Florida

Contact:

Randi Rosete

 

1620 Medical Center Lane, Suite 211

Contact Phone:

(941) 338-2777

 

 

Fort Myers 33907

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Description:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Programmatic study to identify WAGES clients transitioning from welfare to work to teach skills necessary to be proactive in procuring preventive and primary care health services for self and family.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Services Provided/Benefit to State:

 

 

 

 

 

To provide an educational program to WAGES clients targeting the appropriate procurement of primary health care services to reduce utilization of more costly services through hospital emergency rooms; included in supplemental budget for Dept. of Health.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Measurable Outcome Anticipated:

 

 

 

 

 

To decrease utilization of costly emergency room services and increase utilization of primary care services at the Dunbar Center on a self-pay basis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amount requested from the State for this project this year:

$150,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total cost of the project:

$187,500

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Request has been made to fund:

Operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is there Local Government or Private match for this request?

 

Yes

 

 

 

 

In-Kind Amount:

$37,500

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project previously funded by the State?

 

Yes

 

 

Fiscal Year:

1999

Amount:

$150,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is future-year funding likely to be requested?

 

Unknown

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request?

 

Yes

 

 

Agency:

Health, Department Of

Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget?

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is there a documented need for this project?

 

Yes

 

 

Documentation:

Decreasing Medicaid reimbursement because of WAGES clients as a result

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)?

Yes

 

 

Hearing Body:

Lee County Legislative Delegation

 

Meeting Date:

11/10/1999