LALs Denied CARES Act Funds
Today, HRSA awarded 1,387 community health centers more than $1.3 billion to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Look-Alikes, because of their designation, are not eligible to receive any of this funding, though they adhere to the same standards of quality and compliance as their fellow FQHC grantees.
This one-time funding allows health centers funds to support detection, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19, including maintaining or increasing health center capacity and staffing levels through the public health emergency. You can read the official release here.
We are extremely thankful our neighboring FQHCs received this funding, as they too face financial pitfalls and dangers of exposing their staff - who are drastically under-prepared and under-equipped - from appropriately responding to this pandemic. They too deserve to keep their doors open, to offer their patients a safe, secure, and prepared facility to respond to their needs. We are not here to fight with our fellow health centers but to ask for their support in advocating for Look-Alikes. We are all driven by the same mission, the same revolutionary aim of the community health center that Jack Geiger envisioned and our nation stands behind.
Fellow Look-Alikes. I have a request. Below is the formula used to calculate awards for recipients of both CPRSAA Act and CARES Act funding.
Use the formulas to calculate what your awards would be, had you been eligible to receive them
Post your award amounts, number of patients you serve, and health center name in the comments field below this post
Tell us how you would use these awards
CPRSAA AWARD:
$50,464, plus
$0.50 per patient (2018 UDS report), plus
$2.50 per uninsured patient (2018 UDS report)
CARES ACT AWARD:
$503,000, plus
$15 per patient (2018 UDS report), plus
$30 per uninsured patient (2018 UDS report)
