Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction - Organization: HCC Network 608 Missouri Street, Waverly, MO Project Director: Toniann Richard, CEO Phone: 816-807-7774 Email: toniann@hccnetwork.org Website: hccnetwork.org Grant Program Funds Requested: $2,000,000 HCC Network is a Missouri-based rural health network and Federally Qualified Health Center located in West Central, Missouri and is the umbrella organization for the Live Well Community Health Centers located in Waverly, Concordia, Buckner, Lexington and Carrollton, Missouri. HCC also has mobile and school-based services. HCC is a mature Rural Health Network, formed in 2004, formally incorporated in 2006, and under the direction of the same leadership since 2007. The HCC has a mission to “Cultivate partnerships and deliver quality health care to strengthen rural communities”. HCC is a rural health network, committed to improving the health status of underserved populations in its service area. HCC was formally established in 2006, following a three-year period of the Network partners informally working together to address area health care needs, specifically to ensure that the health care needs of all citizens in our service area are met, particularly the needs of the under- and uninsured. The focus is to develop and implement programs that are responsive to documented health needs of county residents, with specific health status indicators as benchmarks for progress on addressing those needs. Since its inception, HCC has developed into a comprehensive rural health network, with a wide variety of health, social services and community partners that provide health and wellness prevention and treatment programs for all citizens in our service area, and focused on the health care needs of low-income, under- and uninsured residents. HCC’s strength lies in developing collaborative relationships, utilizing the strengths of individual organizations to develop programs and services that are larger than any one organization. This appropriations request will support funding to further HCC’s Enabling Services through expansion (construction) of the existing warehouse initiative. HCC’s warehouse serves people of all socioeconomic status with items gleaned from vendors who would otherwise dispose of products in landfills. Most of these items include personal hygiene (toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, soap, etc.), cleaning products, mattresses, hospital beds, wheelchairs, walkers, etc. This program also provides services through Project Connect, a one-day health outreach event that provides direct services to people (Link: Project Connect - HCC Network), emergency housing and transportation. Planning for this project has been completed and if funded, could begin immediately. Additionally, funding will be used to support the integration of oral health services (HCC/Live Well) for those receiving care through Comprehensive Mental Health Services in Eastern Jackson County (construction). This partnership will bring much needed dental care (prevention and restoration – including dentures) to patients who are in recovery for substance use and opioid use disorder. By maximizing resources in both agencies, individuals who otherwise may not seek dental care will have access through a co-location of care. HCC would provide a full-time dentist and hygienist to provide care. Engineering has been completed and this project is also ready for implementation. This project, in tandem with many other ongoing collaborative efforts through the region, will ensure that rural communities are improving their growth and sustainability
