Columbia Basin Health Association (CBHA) continues its mission of serving low-income residents in some of Washington state’s poorest counties with a state-of-the-art healthcare campus in the city of Othello.
PROJECT LOCATION:
Othello, Washington
THE PROJECT:
Since 1972, CBHA has served some of Washington’s poorest counties with a full scope of healthcare services, including primary medical, dental, optometry, behavioral health, maternity support, lab, and outreach services. To ensure more patients have access to quality care, CBHA is combining two existing facilities in Othello, Washington, into one state-of-the-art healthcare campus. The new 250,000-square-foot campus will include a 70,000-square-foot primary and multi-specialty clinic in addition to workforce supportive housing, a community and wellness center, and retail space.
The new campus will ensure patients have access to quality care in one location, expanding services by 25% to serve over 40,000 patients annually. It will also allow CBHA to accommodate new primary and specialty care providers, including mammography, orthopedics, physical therapy, dermatology, and ENT – services often hard to come by for residents in remote, rural locations such as Othello. Almost half of CBHA’s patients are seasonable and migrant farm workers, many requiring services in a language other than English. The new facilities will work to accommodate and effectively care for these patients. CBHA’s student and resident training programs will also be expanded, with additional rotations in medical, dental, behavioral health, and pharmacy.
COMMUNITY IMPACTS:
- Create 150 construction jobs.
- Create 65 permanent full-time jobs and maintain 288 permanent full-time jobs.
- Full-time jobs include living wages and employer-paid benefits, including health care, life insurance, matched retirement contributions, continuing education financial assistance, disability and an employee assistance plan.
- CBHA’s dental and pharmacy assistant training programs create opportunities for community members to be directly hired and trained in the medical field with no prior experience necessary.
- 25% more patients will be served annually, including more residents of nearby rural counties.
COMMUNITY PROFILE:
- MFI 53.18% of AMI
- Unemployment rate of 13%, or 1.65 times the national average
- Non-metropolitan
- Federally Medically Underserved Area
FINANCING:
- Total Project Cost: $30 million
- NCF Deployed Allocation: $7.8 million
- Total NMTC Allocation: $7.6 million
PROJECT PARTNERS:
- United Fund Advisors (National Community Fund I, LLC)
- U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation
- Community Hospitality Healthcare Services, LLC
- Columbia Basin Health Association
- U.S. Bank, N.A.
