Friday, April 4, 2025
4/4/2025
Congressionally Directed Spending for Construction Projects - Aunt Martha’s Health and Wellness, Inc. Address: 19990 Governors Highway; Olympia Fields, IL 60461 Project Director: Audrey Pennington, Chief Operations Officer Phone: 773-802-7645; Fax: 708-747-0170 Email: aapennington@auntmarthas.org Website Address: www.auntmarthas.org Grant Funds requested: $450,000 PROJECT ABSTRACT Brief description of the proposed project: Funding from the HRSA Community Project Funding / Congressionally Directed Spending (CPF/CDS) will support the modernization and implementation of a mental and behavioral health focused Integrated Practice Unit (IPU) at Aunt Martha’s Hazel Crest Health Center located on-site, leased from Advocate South Suburban Hospital in Hazel Crest, IL. The modernization will create six new exam rooms, two behavioral health offices, a care coordination office, and a space for meeting with partners to collaborate on addressing social determinants. With the opportunity of 2023 Congressionally-Directed Spending, Aunt Martha’s is prepared to formally expand our implementation of our value-based IPU model at our clinic in Hazel Crest, IL. An IPU embodies the central principle of a value-driven organization: to organize around customer needs, not the supply of particular services. IPUs represent a profound change in health care delivery, enabling better, more e?cient care for groups of patients with similar needs. IPUs utilize multidisciplinary teams, ideally co-located, that are structured to meet the needs of well-de?ned groups of patients, usually with similar conditions, over the full cycle of care. A critical function of a primary care IPU is to identify patients who will bene?t from our internal specialty services (e.g., behavioral health, Family Planning) as well as from specialty IPUs external to the practice, and serve as the central point of coordination and collaboration with those teams. and among our partners in southern Cook County. Needs to be addressed: The project will focus on the needs of adolescent health, including integrated primary care and behavioral health services. Currently, adolescents and teenagers in northeastern Illinois and across the country are experiencing elevated rates of mental health challenges. According to survey data reported by the 2020 IL Youth Survey for Cook County, 32% of teens experienced depression, and 14% have considered suicide. Proposed Services: Aunt Martha’s will use an IPU model that will offer value-based, integrated primary care and behavioral health services in a leading-edge model of patient focused and trauma-informed care. Population to be served: This expansion would enable the facility to serve more than 4,000 children and youth ages 6-18 who are patients of our Hazel Crest Health Center.
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