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Urgent appointment
Congresswoman visits local clinic
to support children’s health care
Library offers special European train exhibition
The Western Wayne Health Center in
Inkster welcomed a special guest last
week when U. S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow
droppedby.
Stabenow visited several community
health centers around the stateDec. 15 in
an effort to draw attention to the lack of
congressional action on funding for both
the Children's Health Insurance Plan
(CHIP) and for community health centers
around the United States. Full funding
for CHIP and 70 percent of money for
health centers expiredSept. 30.
There is bi-partisan support for both
of these programs in both the House of
Representatives and the Senate, yet a bill
with 70 supporters that will continue the
current funding level for community
health centers has not been put to the
floor for a vote, according to Stabenow's
office. Bills have been approved in the
House that support both CHIP and com-
munity health centers, she added.
CHIP covers 9 million children of
lower income, working families in the
United States, 83,000 in Michigan.
Community Health Centers like Western
Wayne Family Health Centers are the
primary care provider for one of every 15
Americans-with more than 23 million
patients, a spokesman from the health
center explained. There are 680,000
patients in Michigan, with Western
Wayne Health Center servicing almost
16,000 of themin 2017, she added.
“Most people who use community
health centers have either Medicaid
insurance or no insurance-and report
household incomes at 200 percent of the
federal poverty line or less. Community
health centers around the county serve
9,800 communities with medical, dental
and mental health services. Western
Wayne has centers in Inkster, Taylor and
Lincoln Park,” said Lisa Rutledge, spe-
cial projects manager at the health cen-
ter.
More than 23 million patients use
community health centers in the US-
680,000 in Michigan-and 15,515 at
WesternWayneFamily HealthCenters.
The clinic is located at 2700 Hamlin
Blvd, behind the Inkster Post Office. For
more information or an appointment,
call (313) 561-5100.
The clinic provides health care servic-
es; dental services; diagnostic and emer-
gency services; family planning; immu-
nizations; mental health services and pri-
mary health care.
The Great Lakes Chapter of
the
European
Train
Enthusiasts will be back at the
Plymouth District Library this
holiday season, with European
model trains running through
miniature cities and country-
sides.
The main level meeting
rooms will house the expansive
miniature train collection
which will consist of inter-
changeable modules, each
measuring 2 by 4 feet. Four
trains can be run simultaneous-
ly in a circular manner passing
such landmarks as a German
beer garden, the Berlin Wall
and aDutchwindmill.
A computer program directs
all activity in the display and
overheadwires convey the elec-
tricity needed to run the trains,
similar to actual trains moving
about in Europe. Local resident
Jan Eisen is a member of the
Great Lakes Chapter of the
European Train Enthusiasts
and is overseeing the installa-
tion of this display. Amember of
the organization since 2000,
Eisen was the owner of
Eisenbahn Model Trains, a
shop which was located in
Plymouth for several years.
For more information on the
club, visit
This
extensive display is free and
open to the public - made possi-
ble through the support of the
Friends of the Plymouth
District Library.
The train display will be
open each day at 9:30 a.m. and
will be open until 9 p.m. Dec.
28; until 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 29;
until 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 30
and until 9 p.m. Jan. 2. The
library is located at 223 S. Main
St. indowntownPlymouth.
Western Wayne Family Health Center Therapist Diana Pool and medical assistant
Keysha Griffin both spoke with U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow during her visit to the
Inkster clinic last week.
Nurse Practitioner LaToya Richardson
spoke to U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow
about the services and need for the
Western Wayne Family Health Center dur-
ing her visit last week.
U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow visited the
Western Wayne Family Health Center in
Inkster last Friday and toured the exami-
nation rooms and spoke with Dr.
Antoinette Byrd-Carr.
