Mr. Gene P. Alves, President of the Board of Directors of
HealthFirst Family Care Center
announced on September 9, 2010 that the Health Center has purchased the
former Plant M of Quaker Manufacturing located at
387 Quarry Street
for its new site. “The new facility will allow us to expand our current services by
doubling our medical exam rooms from 13 to 26 and adding five dental
operatories for a total of nine in our new facility."
noted the Center's CEO Julie Almond. "Our
total health center space will increase from the current 10,000 square
feet to close to 40,000.”
Financing for the project is provided by BankFive
and the Office of Economic Development.
In
December, 2009 the Department of Health and Human Services
(HRSA) awarded
$11.5 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds to
HealthFirst
Family Care Center
to support the development of the Quarry Street facility.
HealthFirst was one of only 85, in a field of over 600 applicants
nationally, whose application was approved. This award accounts for 88% of the total project cost of $13M. For more
information services offered by HealthFirst, call Paula Harrison at
508-679-9376, Ext. 204.
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(Top row, left)
Center CEO Julie Almond chats with Chairman of the HealthFirst Board of Directors Gene P. Alves,
FROED Executive Vice-
president Kenneth Fiola and Finance Director Steven Pare prior to the news
conference. (Top row, right) Mary Ann Williams of Skanska and Jim Marsh of
Columbia Construction chat with HealthFirst Director of Community Relations and
Development Paula Harrison. (Middle row) Mayor William Flanagan describes the
overall benefits of the new facility to the entire community. (Bottom row) Linda A. Bodenmann
, Executive Vice
President and COO of Southcoast Health System & Southcoast
Hospitals Group, Thomas F. Lyons, CEO and President of Bank Five, and Craig A. Jesiolowski, President of Saint Anne's Hospital
point
out the cooperative nature of the project.
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