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83 2022 House Andy Barr Barr Andy B001282 Republican KY   Labor HHS The Post Clinic Project THE POST CLINIC PROJECT Until recently, the Post Clinic operated out of two undersized buildings, both of which offered approximately 1,000 square feet of usable space. Though the Post Clinic successfully served the needs of the public from the two locations for 22 years, in 2018, the Post Clinic relocated to a larger building donated to the Clinic from a local family with long-standing ties to the medical community. The Post Clinic currently uses the building to house both medical and dental services. With the additional space, the Post Clinic has the room needed to serve additional patients, extend their services, and allow more volunteers to assist with the services offered by the Post Clinic. The building, however, is nearing sixty years of age, and a lot of the components, such as the windows and plumbing, are original to the structure. Due to its various aging and deteriorating components and lack of ADA accessibility, the cost of rehabilitating the existing building is estimated to be nearly as much as constructing a new facility. Therefore, the decision was made to seek funding to construct a new facility for the Post Clinic; a 2020 feasibility study affirmed that this decision would provide the most economic benefit.The City of Mount Sterling is partnering with the Post Clinic to seek funding to construct a new facility to provide free primary health and dental care to low-income patients annually who are unemployed or under-employed, and to the unserved and under-served residents of Montgomery, Bath, and other surrounding counties. The proposed new facility will be approximately 3,732 square feet and will be located adjacent to the existing Post Clinic building at 15 Sterling Avenue in Mount Sterling where a parking lot is currently (Latitude: 38.062077, Longitude: -83.947085).The new building will be a single story with a brick veneer exterior, a standing seam metal roof system, insulated glass windows for energy efficiency, and exterior metal doors. The interior and entry of the building will be ADA compliant. The building will have administrative areas, a kitchen area, examination and procedure areas for the patients, and restroom facilities. Building design will be compliant with the Kentucky Building Code, National Energy Code, National Electrical Code, ASHRE, Kentucky State Plumbing Code, and ADA complaint.The construction of a new Post Clinic building would help facilitate the clinic to operate on a full-time basis, within a better and more efficient facility designed as a clinic. With planned increases in both the medical and dental services staff, this will enable the clinic to operate on a full-time basis by offering expanded hours of operation and having the ability to meet the needs of an ever-growing population. It is the intent of the clinic to continue operating as a free “no fee” basis clinic. Services provided by the Post Clinic are essential for local and regional economic development. By providing free healthcare to the local and regional workforce, the Post Clinic directly supports small businesses that cannot offer health plans to employees as well as businesses that rely on migrant or part-time workers. The Post Clinic also supports the uninsured/under-insured workforce by offering “after hour” scheduling to employed individuals so they are not required to miss work for necessary treatments. The Post Clinic provides economic development benefits to local businesses in three ways: Health Maintenance, Transitional Care, and Pre-Employment Physicals and Drug Screenings.The Post Clinic expects to increase the number of patients served from 400 to more than 4,000 patients annually within five years, from the communities throughout the region. The clinic is planning to hire a mid-level provider (nurse practitioner) to accommodate this projected growth in patients served. Additionally, it is anticipated than more than 70 percent of patients served will be employed individuals that are uninsured, under-insured or need transitional care while employer insurance plans are pending. As outcomes of the project, the lives of each patient seen at the clinic will be improved; the communities they live in will subsequently be improved as a result of the care received; and each patient’s local business employer will benefit from the project by having fewer lost working days from its staff and less expenses as a result of those lost work hours. 33 North Maysville Street, Mount Sterling, KY 40353 984812