HEALTH CLINIC ACCORD OK'D BY CITY COUNCIL NONPROFIT PROVIDER PICKED.Byline: Alex Dobuzinskis Staff Writer GLENDALE - The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to allow a nonprofit health provider to operate a community health clinic at a city- built facility to be furnished and equipped with federal funds Federal Funds Funds deposited to regional Federal Reserve Banks by commercial banks, including funds in excess of reserve requirements. Notes: These non-interest bearing deposits are lent out at the Fed funds rate to other banks unable to meet overnight reserve . The Edison Pacific Health Clinic at 437 S. Pacific Ave. will have about 1,300 square feet of space and will be run by Northeast Community Clinic. The clinic is expected to open in the spring of next year. ``It'll be the city's first community health clinic, and basically it will help reduce the number of people in (local) emergency rooms,'' said Madalyn Blake, director of community development and housing. Glendale already has Verdugo Hills Medical Associates, a private facility, and the Glendale Health Center, which is public. But the Edison Pacific Health Center will be the city of Glendale's first venture into providing a community clinic for residents. The clinic will provide a place for both the insured and the uninsured to get medical care, and schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school will be able to receive immunizations there. Those lacking either public or private health coverage will pay for service on a sliding scale slid·ing scale n. A scale in which indicated prices, taxes, or wages vary in accordance with another factor, as wages with the cost-of-living index or medical charges with a patient's income. , based on their income. ``We're actually serving the whole spectrum of the community; there won't be any exclusion,'' said Dr. Christopher Dr. John R. Christopher, known popularly as "Dr. Christopher" was one of very few nationally prominent doctors of herbal medicine of the middle third of the 20th century, a "dark ages" of herbalism and was responsible for the herbal renaissance of the 1960s. Lau, the executive director of the NECC NECC National Educational Computing Conference NECC Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (Norfolk, VA) NECC Net-Enabled Command Capability NECC Northeast Mississippi Community College NECC North Equatorial Counter Current . The clinic will be in an area where 25 percent of the residents are under 18, and where 91 percent of the housing units are occupied by renters. ``It's one of the areas of highest need,'' Blake said. Blake told the council that the NECC has been in operation since 1971 and is a good agency to operate the clinic. The council approved the agreement with little discussion. The city will allow the NECC to have the facility rent-free. The city last year received $98,356 in federal funds for movable furniture and medical equipment that will be installed in the facility. When it opens, the clinic will have a receptionist, a medical assistant and a medical provider, who could be a doctor completing residency, a physician's assistant physician's assistant: see physician assistant. or a nurse practitioner nurse practitioner n. Abbr. NP A registered nurse with special training for providing primary health care, including many tasks customarily performed by a physician. , according to the city. The clinic will be open part time when it first opens, and within a year will increase to full-time operation and see about 585 visitors a month, according to the city. Alex Dobuzinskis, (818) 546-3304 alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com |
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