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buildings being finished at Gilbert and North streets for Carle Medical Supply and Sleep Lab and also retail space .
“ It ’ s gone very well we think ,” Meneely said of patients coming to the riverfront , west downtown Danville location .
Wayfinding signs are now installed , he added , making finding things even easier .
Communication has improved with all specialties and primary care in the same building , he said .
Carle employs about 247 team members at the riverfront location and there are about 136 team members at Hoopeston Regional Health Center and 392 employees at Carle ’ s surrounding affiliated locations .
Every three years , Community Health Assessment stakeholders update Illinois Project for Local Assessment of Needs ( IPLAN ) goals and select priorities for the next three-year period to focus on .
In 2022 , the group selected to move forward with four priorities and workgroups for the next three years : behavioral health , anti-violence , income / poverty and
“ There ’ s a tremendous amount of effort and goodwill here .”
— Carle medical director Dr . Tim Meneely healthy behavior . Vermilion County has consistently ranked among the lowest in 102 Illinois counties for health outcomes , and local health officials have continued to look at what can be done to improve some of those statistics , such as teen pregnancies and substance abuse .
Meneely said access to care is vital , in addition to what happens in neighborhoods , such as access to healthy foods and exercising in safe neighborhoods .
Carle ’ s Mobile Clinic goes into neighborhoods to reach families . It helped families with school physicals in August .
Meneely said Carle will be getting another mobile clinic , and van , and received grant funding to help with the Heavenly Square Grocery store to hopefully open this fall off Bowman Avenue in Danville .
In seeking health care employees , Carle worked with the Danville school district on a health care career fair and works closely with Lakeview College of Nursing , with Carle staff also teaching there , and Danville Area Community College .
There is training for health and surgical technicians .
A retail center at the northwest corner of Gilbert and North streets , as part of the Carle at The Riverfront project in Danville , had a projected completion date of summer 2023 .
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