1) Applicant Organization Information: Paris and Henry County Healthcare Foundation, 301 Tyson Avenue, Paris, TN 38242. Facility/Entity Type: 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization; fiscal agent; Website: https://www.hcmc-tn.org/about-hcmc/henry-county-healthcare-foundation/ 2) Designated Project Director, Network Director, and Key Staff Matthew A. Standridge, Project Director of Telehealth Systems, 731-644-8580; mastandridge@hcmc-tn.org Rachel Lynn Matlock, Network Director of Telehealth Systems, 731-644-8300; rlmatlock@hcmc-tn.org Victoria Daughrity, Director of Marketing & Public Relations, 731-644-8266; tdaughrity@hcmc-tn.org 3) Rural Health Network Development Project Project Title: GrowWell TN Network Telehealth Expansion Project Goal: To expand access to telehealth services and address unmet needs for behavioral and mental health, obesity prevention, obesity-related chronic disease management, and digital health literacy for youth and adults in a 17-county area in rural West Tennessee. Focus Areas: Telehealth expansion; Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM); digital health literacy. 4) Target Patient Population: The target population is 471,313 residents in 17 rural counties in West TN. Residents have levels of poverty, obesity, mental and behavioral health, cancer and chronic diseases that are higher than the rest of Tennessee and the United States. 5) Network Members Network Name: GrowWell TN Network Total Number of Member Organizations: 5 Facility/Entity Types: Four healthcare entities: Hardeman County Community Health Center, Lifespan Health, Inc., Henry County Medical Center, Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach. One nonprofit entity: Paris and Henry County Healthcare Foundation 6) Network Project Activities/Services: Expanding telehealth services into four rural counties and 23 schools previously unserved while maintaining telehealth services at existing health sites; piloting Remote Patient Monitoring; and providing digital hea
lth literacy services. 7) Expected Outcomes: i. Improving access and ii. Expanding capacity and services: The project will expand telehealth services and introduce RPM and digital literacy education into new settings, new geographic areas and patient populations not served before; iii. Enhancing outcomes: Telehealth and remote patient monitoring will increase the capacity of providers to reach and more effectively monitor vulnerable populations, thereby improving health and behavioral health outcomes. iv. Sustainability: The proposed project will improve the cost efficiency of Network members through shared staffing and resources, which will help insure sustainability of services. 8) Capacity to Serve Rural Underserved Populations: Three Network members (Henry County Medical Center, Hardeman County Community Health Center and Lifespan Health) are located in and serve rural areas. Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach has a 15-year history of providing mobile health and school nurse services in rural West TN school districts. 9) Funding Preference: 17 counties are Primary Care and Mental Health Low Income HPSAs: Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Gibson, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood, Henderson, Henry, McNairy, Tipton, Obion, Wayne, Weakley. Two counties (Wayne and Hardeman) are Whole Geographic HPSAs. Eight counties are Geographic Mental Health HPSAs: Benton, Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Henry, Obion, and Weakley.