The planned Southern Illinois Health Care Foundation facility at Danville High School has been built, and the hope is to start seeing patients very soon. This FQHC, Federally Qualified Health Center, was planned for downstairs at DHS near the access to the cafeteria, but away from student foot traffic.
During Friday morning’s STEPUP meeting at Second Church of Christ in Danville, STEPUP’s Deanna Witzel said the actual work on the clinic itself took only 28 days.
AUDIO: The construction is completed. And so now it’s up to Southern Illinois Health Care to start moving their equipment in, and to start hiring some people to run that facilily. They’re hoping to be able to start seeing patients in the next month or so. And it is a little bit sooner than what we thought, so we’re excited about that; that they’re going to be able to start seeing patients right away, and helping the families of District 118.
Southern Illinois Health Care Foundation CEO Larry McCulley addresses STEPUP during their December, 2021 meeting.
District 118 School Board Vice-President Shannon Schroeder was also in attendance at the STEPUP meeting. She says, providing these services to students will be a wonderful step, and it could not have been done without the people from the Danville area that came together to form the STEPUP team.
AUDIO: This is such an incredible organization. I mean it has just brought stakeholders from everywhere. And it’s something about Danville; the whole community, where we come together, and we get things done. So I’m delighted that we are going to be moving forward quickly.
Meanwhile, work is continuing on arrangements for the other planned Southern Illinois Health Care Foundation FQHC in the Danville area, designed to; as all FQHCs are; serve the community with no one being turned away. The tentative location was previously announced to be the old St. Elizabeth Hospital Site.
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