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nursing stations, and laboratory <br />and <br />in 100 square feet each, plus waiting rooms, <br />from 20 to 22 full-time equivalent staff including at leas <br />ort staff (three per doctor), and additional <br />rooms averaging <br />pharmacy space. Most CHCs employ Per week, with half of Piedmont <br />tluee primary care doctors, a minimum of nine supp <br />staff. Facilities are open a mrnnnum of 40 hours P typically run between $118-$135 <br />pharmacy horns. Construction costs tyP CHC construction is usually <br />hl $700,000 to $2,000,000 per facility. <br />Health's locations offering Satur aY <br />per square foot, or roughly <br />funded through a combination of federal Grants and USDA loan foods' <br />a miuimum: <br />Federal statute requires that CHCs provide the following services, <br />primary medical care; radiological services; <br />Diagnostic laboratory and <br />Preventive services including prenatal, pernatal and child services; <br />Cancer and other disease screening, <br />nmumzations; communicable diseases and cholesterol; <br />• h <br />Screening for elevated blood le children; <br />• d <br />• Eye, eat- and dental screening <br />Family planning services; <br />Preventive dental services; and <br />Emergency medical and dental services; <br />plrartnaceutical services. are provided based on specific <br />Other services, such as WIC and services for migrant populations, <br />community, needs. <br />Medically <br />Certified Need CHCs can only be established in areas with a cettifie <br />to Mr. Toomey and the HRSA, niftcant barriers to access. M <br />According Persons <br />shortage of personal health care services, andy s sd groups of p <br />UAs are counties or county subdivisions to whteh residents have a s or ag <br />Underserved Areas (M ) <br />Underserved Populations (NNPs) include g' P <br />of personal health services. Medically IMU) calculated on a scale of 0 to <br />who face economic, <br />cultwal e linguistic barriers to health care. Criteria for certification as a <br />ualif ing as MUAs or MUPs. The 1MU index score considers: <br />MU all are base <br />62 andlundet' q of Medical Underservice <br />100, per 1,000 population; <br />1) The ratio of primary medical care physicians <br />2) Infant mortality rate; <br />level; and <br />3) Percentage of population with intone 6 beaneovet'pover y <br />4) The percentage of the population ag <br />31 <br />