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Congresswoman Melissa Bean (IL-08) announced that the House will vote on legislation this week that includes funding she requested in the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act of 2010. This list includes requests that were included in the final bill. To see a list of requests submitted to the committee, click here.
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital
- Recipient: Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital, located at 450 West Highway, Barrington, IL 60010
- Description: $70,000 through the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Account for the Breast Cancer Center at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital. This funding is an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars because it will support the development of a centralized digital mammography reading station at the Breast Care Center “headquarters” on the Advocate Good Shepherd campus, so the hospital’s radiologists have the equipment and capacity they need to read and interpret a rapidly growing volume of screening and diagnostic mammograms.
Children's Memorial Hospital Intensive Care Unit Facilities
- Recipient: Children's Memorial Hospital, located at 2300 Children's Plaza, Chicago, IL 60614-3394
- Description: $380,000, in conjunction with other Members, through the Department of Health and Human Services HRSA Health Facilities Account to help build a new hospital. This is an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars because construction of a new hospital will allow Children’s Memorial to continue providing all children in our region with access to the best minds in pediatric medicine and science and the most advanced cures, treatments and technology in a family-centered environment.
F.A.S.T. Solutions Initiative
- Recipient: McHenry County, located at 2200 North Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, IL 60098
- Description: $250,000 through the Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FISPE), or the Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Training and Employment Services to fund the F.A.S.T Solutions Initiative. This program is an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars because it will provide flexible and sustainable workforce training in a “boot camp” format which is designed to provide intensive, short-term occupational training in specific fields identified by employers through their participation on the McHenry County Workforce Investment Board (WIB).
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