Owens health center gets $95,000 grant
The new leadership at Elsie Owens health center in Coram has received a $95,000 grant to help with the transition.
Last month, Suffolk County lawmakers voted to hire an outside contractor, Hudson River Health Care Inc., a Peekskill-based group, to run the Coram center.
The state Health Department encouraged Hudson River to work with the county after former County Executive Steve Levy proposed shutting the Coram clinic because of state aid cuts.
The nonprofit New York State Health Foundation announced the grant — one of 10 statewide the foundation made to underserved areas — last week. The grant will be used to help with the transition and create promotional material, said Hudson River chief financial officer James Sinkoff.
About 85 percent of the Coram center’s patients either receive Medicaid, government funding for the poor, or are uninsured, according to the foundation.
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