Thursday, May 15, 2025
5/15/2025
Rural Communities Opioid Response Program-Overdose Response - PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Reduce the morbidity and mortality of substance-use-disorder (SUD), including opioid-use-disorder (OUD), in high-risk rural communities by supporting immediate response to the opioid crisis in rural areas through activities aimed at improving access to, capacity for, and sustainability of prevention, treatment, and recovery services for substance-use-disorder (SUD). • Allowable Activity 1 - Horizon Health will partner with local emergency responders to provide naloxone (Narcan) for use in treating individuals experiencing incidents of drug overdose. Distribution of Narcan will be made available through Horizon clinics free of charge to clients and the general public. Establish protocol and begin testing client UDS samples for fentanyl in order to provide better client education on the risks of fentanyl. This activity will fund 1800 doses of Narcan as well as 10,000 each of urine drug screen samples and fentanyl strips. • Allowable Activity 2 - Horizon Health will make minor renovations to its London KY facility to accommodate future clinic and counseling growth. Horizon Health clients continue to experience transportation as a barrier to care. Horizon Health will purchase a mobile unit to accommodate client access to SUD/OUD clinic and counseling services. By making minor renovations to the London KY facility, we anticipate growth to be approximately 15% over 2022 encounter totals or an additional 2000 550 Mat and counseling encounters • Allowable Activity 4 - Horizon Health will utilize existing staff to organize and conduct outreach activities aimed at identifying individuals within the community suffering from SUD/OUD who may be unable to access treatment due to lack of access to insurance. Outreach activities include distribution of pamphlets and individual contact through participation in local events. Local event contacts are estimated to be at least 1500 individual contacts. • Allowable Activity 7 - Horizon Health will leverage existing grant funds through the USDA DLT program to provide telehealth equipment installation in primary care offices within the target service area. funding under this RCORP opportunity will be used to coordinate installation activities costs. By expanding telehealth under this grant we anticipate reducing our no show rate by approximately 3% resulting in capturing an additional approximate 500 encounters over the grant. This is over and above our anticipated growth rate. • Allowable Activity 12 - Horizon Health will utilize funding for minor renovations in connection with activity #2 to convert existing space in the organization's Williamsburg KY clinic to accommodate childcare services. Horizon health will utilize transportation equipment purchased in connection with activity #2 to support existing employment programs available through Horizon Health’s recovery to work programs. By converting existing space in Williamsburg KY to child care and utilizing transportation we expect to increase the patient base in Williamsburg by approximately 100 clients • Allowable Activity 13 – Horizon Health will partner with local health departments in Knox, Laurel, and Whitley counties to provide screenings for SUDOUD related infectious disease.This quarterly program conducted by all three health departments is expected to touch at least 200 persons per quarter or approximately 800 to 1000 tests
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