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Senator Briggs requests $150,000 for Cherokee Health Care System clinic in Mechanicsville
Summary
Senator Briggs presented a $150,000 nonrecurring request to support capital costs for a new Cherokee Health Care System medical and behavioral health walk-in clinic in the Mechanicsville community of Knoxville.
Senator Briggs asked the subcommittee to consider a $150,000 nonrecurring appropriation to support capital infrastructure costs for Cherokee Health Care System, a federally qualified health center, to open a new medical and behavioral health walk-in clinic in Knoxville's Mechanicsville community.
Briggs said Mechanicsville is an underserved inner-city neighborhood and that the project would add both medical and behavioral health access; the transcript records the request as a presentation and includes no further budget breakdown or timeline details.
No committee vote or formal action was recorded in the hearing transcript for this item.
