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PORTLAND, Maine 鈥?A federal agency has agreed to offer Portlands clinic for homeless patients additional funding to keep the facility open after April.But how much longer after April remains to be seen, said Douglas Gardner, head of the citys Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the operation.The city asked the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration for nearly $500,000 to help delay the clinics closure, brought on by the agencys recent decision to shift its funding of health care services for homeless people from the citys Portland Street operation to the nonprofit Portland Community Health Center on Park Avenue.However, the agency only agreed to allocate $360,000 to extend the life of the citys Health stanley cup uk Care for the Homeless Clinic. Thats not enough to keep the facility open until the end of the calendar year, as city officials hoped, Gardner said.He said the city appreciates the extra HRSA funding and considers the award good news, but is working with the agency to gauge how much longer the clinic will be able to remain open. [T]hey didnt fund our entire stanley quencher request, but from the communications weve received, it looks like they are expecting us to provide a level of service as if they did grant our entire request, and that is simply not possible with the level of funding available, Gardner told the BDN in an email.In January, the Portland Community Health Center announced it had been stanley cups awarded nearly $680,000 by HRSA to provide health care service |