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MAIN APPLICATION g) Provide a bulleted list of other agencies, if any, with which your agency coordinates /collaborates to accomplish or enhance the Projected Results in the Program(s) to be funded. For each, give specific examples of the coordinated /collaborative efforts. PHS collaborates with several local agencies to enhance its impact on the target population, including but not limited to: • Orange County Health Department: PHS provides WIC services at the Orange County Health Department in Hillsborough. CCHC serves as the health department's primary referral point for refugee families needing to establish care with a PCP. The Health Department and PHS collaborate on a Susan G. Komen for the Cure grant to provide screening mammography to low- income women (PHS patients use the Rex Mobile Mammography Unit). PHS contributes to health department needs assessments and program planning as requested. The Orange County Health Department services as administrator for this funding. • UNC Health Care: PHS provides its CCHC facility for the operations of SHAC clinic at no cost to UNC. UNC provides PHS with a care access grant which helps to offset the cost of uncompensated care and funds sub - specialist outreach previously described. PHS works with UNC to identify uninsured individual in the UNC Emergency Department and in its specialty clinics to connect these individuals to care at PHS. • Inter -Faith Council for Social Service: CCHC has long provided medical care and prescriptions to homeless individuals identified by IFC. A PHS physician provided leadership for their free clinic. In September 2015, with IFC's move to their new shelter facility, PHS now provides medical and dental care to IFC emergency /transitional housing participants at the IFC shelter two half days /weekly. • Orange County Partnership for Children: The Partnership has funded Carrboro's Bilingual Children's Resource Coordination Program, a care management program focused on assisting immigrant and refugee families to access resources for their young children. h) Describe what would happen if requested funding is not awarded at all or if a reduced allocation is recommended. The PHS Carrboro Community Health Center program is budgeted to lose money in 2016 -2017 (- $144,717 total), and specifically to lose money for medical (- $144,082), and pharmacy services (- $29,488). Because of demand for care from the low- income uninsured population at CCHC, PHS cannot sustain the current CCHC program without grant support beyond that provided by HRSA. To sustain CCHC, PHS currently uses other grant funds and program revenue generated by its other health centers to help offset the CCHC operational loss for the organization. The PHS Board has a strategic goal of every health center breaking even with a 3% reserve. Thus, were the City and County not to fund PHS, it would continue to search for other sources of grant income, increase sliding fee payment expectation on patients (current nominal fee a medical visit for patient living below 100% of poverty is $25), and /or decrease available services at CCHC. i) Include any other pertinent information. The CCHC will be undergoing a capital renovation in 2016 -2017 to add dental exam rooms and improve service delivery spaces. The capital team is working to plan the renovation to minimize the number of days the Center must be closed through a phased renovation approach. In order to maintain services to CCHC patients during days when the various services are closed to appointments, PHS will move staff to the new Chapel Hill CHC space to see medical patients in need of care at this location. Revised November 20, 2014 Page 9 of 22 Pages