Cheney clinic gets fed money

Plans for a community health clinic in Cheney serving low-income West Plains residents are back on track, thanks to a second round of federal funding.

Officials at Community Health Association of Spokane — CHAS — were notified Tuesday morning that they were one of seven health care providers in Washington to receive funding from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Health Center Program. According to a news release, CHAS will receive $358,333 from the federal program, enabling it to open a health clinic in Cheney that could potentiall...