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10 - The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, October 14, 2009
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY NEWS
Kaiser Permanente Makes Donation to
Morehouse School of Medicine
State awards $15 million for
Affordable Housing in Savannah
David Satcher, M.D.
On Oct. 8, 2009, Kaiser Medicine to support the
Permanente of Georgia pre- development and implemen-
sented a grant for nearly tation of a workforce leader-
$500,000 to the Satcher ship program that will reduce
Health Leadership Institute health disparities by creating
at the Morehouse School of an integrated approach to pri
mary care and mental health.
Former Surgeon
General David Satcher, MD,
Director of the Satcher
Health Leadership Institute
joined Morehouse School of
Medicine and Kaiser
Permanente of Georgia offi
cials at a check presentation
held at the Louis W. Sullivan
National Center for Primary
Care. A tour of Morehouse
School of Medicine followed
the check presentation.
The grant will be used
to train scholars to encourage
effective policy and practice
in order to remedy the causes
of health disparities, to
improve access to care and to
develop health care leaders
who will advance the integra
tion of mental and primary
health care.
Additionally, this initiative
will create partnerships
between mental and primary
health care to more effective
ly diagnose and treat mental
health conditions.
“Morehouse School of
Medicine strives to improve
the health and well being of
individuals and communities.
“This partnership will
help address the findings of
our needs assessment and
ultimately make better health
a reality for all.’’Peter
Andruszkiewicz, president of
Kaiser Permanente of
Georgia.
The project will also
improve access to care for
underserved populations.
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The Georgia
Department of Community
Affairs announced this week
that two major affordable
housing developments in
Savannah will be the recipi
ents of competitive tax cred
its expected to bring in more
than $15 million for the proj
ects.
City Council was
notified Thursday that
Savannah Gardens, planned
along Pennsylvania Avenue
on Savannah's eastside, will
receive tax credits that will
generate up to $8 million to
build more than 115 afford
able rental units. In all, the
$100 million development
will transform the former
Strathmore Estates into up to
130 single-family homes and
440 mixed-income rental
units.
Sustainable Fellwood,
off West Bay Street on
Savannah's westside, will
receive tax credits with an
estimated value of $7 mil
lion. The money will be used
to help construct up to 100
units of affordable senior
housing. In all, the develop
ment includes 320 mixed-
income rental units and 13
single-family homes.
The tax credits are sold
on the open market, which
results in capital funding for
affordable housing projects
that meet specific criteria set
by the Department of
Community Affairs. The
State awarded tax credits in
2009 to only about a third of
the more than 65 applica
tions received across the
State. Of those projects,
Savannah Gardens was
ranked third highest in
Georgia; Sustainable
Fellwood was ranked sixth.
"The awards for both proj
ects in the same community
is yet another example of our
quality housing partnerships
and planning that is favor
ably recognized in the state
and national housing indus
try," City Manager Michael
Brown said. "This further
advances our efforts to pro
vide decent, safe and afford
able housing for our citi
zens."
The State DCA scored
both projects high in part
because of the high level of
community support for the
projects, the fact that both
applications were endorsed
by City Council, and because
of the unique public-private
partnerships involved.
At Savannah Gardens,
the City of Savannah is
building infrastructure and
parks, providing technical
expertise, and offering fund
ing assistance, while the
nonprofit CHSA
Development Inc. serves as
master developer, and the
nonprofit Mercy Housing
developing the affordable
rental units. Construction of
the housing units is expected
to begin early next summer.
Sustainable Fellwood is
a Housing Authority of
Savannah project, which will
result in the redevelopment
of the former Fellwood
Homes site. Infrastructure
and parks are being built by
the City, with the private
Melaver Inc. serving as mas
ter developer. Phase I is now
complete, with Phase II
under way.
For more information,
or to set up interviews, con
tact the Public Information
Office at 651-6410.
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