Tampa Healthcare Jobs Created by Clinic Funding
Friday, December 11th, 2009A new round of funding for two local health clinics will help create Tampa healthcare jobs and construction jobs.
The two clinics were recently granted a total of $6.6 million in federal funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Of the $787 billion stimulus bill passed earlier this year, about $600 million will go to community health centers, in part as an effort to increase the use of electronic medical records.
Suncoast Community Health Centers will receive $3.7 million to expand services and Tampa Family Health Centers will receive $2.9 million to help build an 18,000-square-foot clinic next to University Community Hospital. That $4 million project is expected to create at least 15 construction positions and 22 healthcare-related jobs.