Outreach Community Health Centers plans 58,000-square-foot expansion

Outreach Community Health Centers announced plans Friday to build a 58,000-square-foot addition to its clinic at 210 W. Capitol Drive.

The planned expansion, projected to cost $15 million, will allow the community health center to move staff and services now at 711 W. Capitol Drive to its clinic, Outreach said in a news release.

Those services include case management, which helps coordinate care for complex patients, and homeless and street outreach programs.

“Our organization’s long-term strategic plan has included a new building for a number of years,” Constance Palmer, president and CEO of Outreach, said in a statement.

Construction on the planned threestory addition, which will include underground parking, is expected to begin this spring and be completed in the summer of 2023.

Outreach, which employs 150 people, provides care to about 7,500 people a year. It had revenue, including grants, of $20.6 million last year.

Community health centers, located in low-income urban and rural areas, provide care primarily to people covered by Badger Care Plus and other Medicaid programs and Medicare as well as people who are uninsured.

Outreach is one of four in Milwaukee. The others are Milwaukee Health Services, Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers and Progressive Community Health Centers. Together they provide care to an estimated 85,000 people a year in the Milwaukee area.

Other community clinics in Milwaukee include the Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center and the Muslim Community and Health Center of Wisconsin.