Smith County Donates Building To Community Health Clinics of Northeast Texas

Health
By LAUREN GROVER
Staff Writer
The Community Health Clinics of Northeast Texas is preparing to become proud owners of its Primary Care Clinic, 928 N. Glenwood Blvd., donated by Smith County last month.
Board members tabled the motion to accept the building as negotiations with the county are pending.
“It’s nice, we’re going to have the option to do some remodeling,” said Kleanthe Caruso, interim executive director for the clinics, who came on board in early April. CHCNET has conducted a lead and asbestos test for the building and could be asking the county to foot the bill for an asbestos abatement before remodeling can be performed, Caruso said.
Board members, on Tuesday evening, discussed using $100,000 from an unused grant to fund parking lot improvements and a new floor plan for the clinic.
“It’s going to be really upgraded for our patients,” said Dr. Bennie Webster, CHCNET chairwoman.
In other business, CFO Ron Rippe presented a $34,193 net income loss in April, and said that as a new accounting system is put into place in the next two months those numbers should
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