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U.S.
Senator Ken Salazar
Member of the Agriculture, Energy and Veterans Affairs
Committees
2300 15th
Street, Suite 450 Denver, CO
80202 | 702 Hart Senate Building, Washington, D.C.
20510
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Sen.
Salazar Announces Project Funding for Health Care and Education Projects
in Colorado
WASHINGTON,
DC – This week, the Senate began consideration of the Labor-HHS-Education
Appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2008 (H.R. 3043). Contained in the
bill is more than $1.7 million in preliminary funding for Colorado projects,
requested by United States Senator Ken Salazar.
“These projects
will make immediate differences in the quality of life for Colorado
families,” said Senator Salazar. “These are critical
projects that will assist thousands of people in Colorado. I am confident
the communities and facilities benefiting will make excellent use of
these funds. I will do what I can to ensure that they get the funding
they need so they can serve their communities.”
The Colorado projects preliminarily
funded at the request of Senator Salazar are:
- $200,000 for
Mercy Health Foundation in La Plata County
to expand its primary care and prevention services for the elderly,
children and underserved;
- $200,000 for
Denver Health in Denver, the only major trauma center to
care for the majority of low-income and uninsured individuals in Denver,
to immediately expand and upgrade their facility;
- 100,000 for the
Health District of Northern Larimer County to help build
a Combined Services Center in Larimer County for mental and substance
abuse treatment services. Currently, admissions to Larimer County’s
“Detox Unit” are growing at a rate of five to 10 percent each year,
straining the County’s budget and facilities;
- $100,000 for
St. Joseph’s Hospital in Denver to help fund its Mobile Mammography
Program, which has screened over 3,000 uninsured women for breast
cancer;
- $200,000 for
the San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center in Alamosa to
help purchase software for its information technology system upgrade,
which will improve patient care in its pharmacy, laboratory, radiology
and nursing departments;
- $150,000 for
the Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association based in Steamboat
Springs to help pay for capital improvements (including operating
costs, equipment purchases and furnishings) for primary care facilities
in Walden, Hayden, and Craig;
- $50,000 for Aims
Community College in Greeley to purchase equipment for its
new Allied Health and Science learning facility, which will help train
students in fields with a high demand for health professionals. Between
2003 and 2006, Aims increased its degree and certificate programs
in allied health fields from one to six in an effort to meet local
and state demands;
- $200,000 for
The Children’s Hospital to help with its re-location from
downtown Denver to the redevelopment at the former Fitzsimons Army
Medical Campus in Aurora;
- $300,000 for
CU-Denver Health Sciences Center
to establish a Linda Crnic Institute for Research and Treatment of
Down Syndrome (LCI) on the Anschutz Campus in Aurora, and to attract
faculty who will focus on the full spectrum, from basic research,
clinical research, clinical care and treatment of children, adolescents
and adults with Down’s Syndrome at the state, regional and National
level; and
- $200,000 for
the Colorado School of Mines in Golden to develop the Mine
Safety and Rescue through Sensing Networks and Robotics Technology
(Mine-SENTRY) system for mining safety applications, focusing on sensors
and sensor networks, improving mine communications and predicting
and reducing the risks and hazards of mining operations.
- $150,000 for
Fort Lewis College in Durango to create an entrepreneurship
center within the School of Business Administration. The center will
bring and the regional community together and encourage them to form
partnerships that foster creativity and enhance regional economic
development.
After this bill is approved
by the Senate it will be reconciled with the House-passed version. President
Bush has already said he will veto the bill.
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