Congressionally directed spending for construction projects - apicha community health center (CHC) was founded in 1989 to address the HIV-related needs of new york city's asian and pacific islander…

Congressionally directed spending for construction projects - apicha community health center (CHC) was founded in 1989 to address the HIV-related needs of new york city's asian and pacific islander (API) community. Since 2015, we have been operating as a federally qualified health center, serving low-income new yorkers, primarily people of color, people living with HIV/aids, and lgbtqia+ individuals. Our mission is to improve the health of our community and to increase access to comprehensive primary care and other services. We provide a full range of medical, preventive health, and supportive services. Apicha CHC is continually looking to improve its quality of care and the efficiency of its operations. We serve a patient population with unique, oftentimes complex, needs and we operate within an environment that is heavily dependent on information technology. As such, we must ensure that we have a supportive infrastructure that can handle the demands of serving our client base. To this end, apicha CHC's proposed IT infrastructure modernization project will upgrade and add redundancy to the agency's technology-related infrastructure at its manhattan clinic (400 broadway, new york, NY 10013). With NETWORK redundancy, you have multiple paths for information traffic and more back-up options, so that data can keep flowing without interruption, which would provide staff with better reliability and performance. The scope of activities include: ensuring continuous power for equipment by providing back-up batteries for server room equipment; removing equipment that is being upgraded, and rewiring current equipment; achieving redundancy by establishing a second IT closet to house a new server; acquiring upgraded and redundant devices (FIREWALLS/SWITCHES) that are key to apicha CHC's NETWORK; monitoring the server room environment to ensure the NETWORK equipment is safe and can remain operational; installing additional storage and memory to servers; replacing current wireless devices with newer and upgraded DE vices; wiring runs to allow for more physical redundancy; and upgrading workstations to improve productivity and redundancy. The project requires minor interior alteration to allow for the running of low voltage (NETWORK) cables from the 3RD floor to the basement where the new backup server will be located. These activities align with the community project funding/congressionally directed spending (CPF/CDS) funding that was requested by senator gillibrand in support of apicha CHC's IT infrastructure modernization project, and that was approved under the consolidated appropriations act 2024. Completion of these activities will result in an IT infrastructure that has greater resiliency and reliability from a physical-plant perspective. With this improved performance, apicha CHC staff can better serve its patient population with life-saving primary care and other health and supportive services. An upgraded NETWORK infrastructure and end point devices will result in better quality of care for our patients and more efficient operations for the agency as a whole.