CHAS looking at former Jarms building as new clinic site

If all tumblers click into place, Cheney could soon be home to the Community Health Association of Spokane’s (CHAS) 11th clinic in the Inland Northwest.

Cheney’s City Council unanimously endorsed a resolution supporting the opening of a CHAS clinic serving low-income individuals on the West Plains at its Sept. 23 meeting. The organization was awaiting word this week on whether or not it would be awarded federal funding through a Bureau of Primary Health Care grant, funding CHAS usually receives and which consistently has totaled $650,000 in the past, CHAS’s vice president for behavioral health...