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NHA Breaks Ground for Central City Health Clinic
Sojourner’s Truth Staff
The Neighborhood Health
Association announced the groundbreaking of its new $11
million health clinic – Nexus Health Care – last week at the
Toledo Club as the agency’s board members, staff, advisors
and elected officials gathered to celebrate the construction
of a facility that will be built at Jefferson and 14th
Streets in the UpTown area of Toledo.
“We are here today because
we have someone like [CEO] Doni Miller and her staff,” said
long-time board member Harry Brown Sr.
Praising the clinic’s name
“Nexus,” Toledo Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson told the audience
that the city “is connecting the ability of our residents to
get health and financial help.”
The construction of the
new clinic comes about as a collaboration between a number
of government and non-government agencies. The Lucas County
Land Bank, administered by the Lucas County Treasurer’s
Office, acquired the land and spent the necessary funds -
$45,000 – to clean up the site.
The federal government
provided a grant of $5 million through the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services for construction costs and the
Local Initiatives Support Corp (LISC) financed the balance
of $6 million through tax credits.
The 43,000-square-foot
clinic will provide adult medical care, a women’s health
care clinic, pediatrics, dental services, a pharmacy, a
urgent care center (named for Harry Brown, Sr) and a branch
of the Toledo Urban Federal Credit Union along with meeting
space. Several current NHA clinic locations will be
consolidated into this site.
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LC Commissioners Contrada and Wozniak, LISC's Hugh Grefe,
NHA CE Doni Miller, Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson, Harry Brown,
LC Treasurer Wade Kapszukiewicz
Lucas County Board of Commissioners Carol Contrada, Tina
Skeldon Wozniak, Pete Gerken
Unveiling the new NHA logo |
