Sunday, May 11, 2025
5/11/2025
Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Non-Construction - Address: 12011 Government Center Pkwy #836, Fairfax, VA 22035 Project Director: Jennifer Aloi Contact Phone: 703-383-8543 Contact Email: jennifer.aloi@fairfaxcounty.gov Website Address: www.fairfaxcounty.gov/csb Project Description: The Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board’s (CSB) Data Warehouse project creates a critically needed business efficiency for access to inpatient behavioral health services for those without insurance or other financial means as well as discharge planning to the community from the local state psychiatric hospital, the Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute (NVMHI). CSBs serve as the public behavioral health providers in Virginia communities. In the long term, this project will allow for greater interoperability and client continuity of care by sharing data across the five Region 2 CSBs, state hospital, and vendor-operated regional projects. The Data Warehouse will also allow required data to be reported to the state using business intelligence tools in an efficient and timely manner. The Fairfax-Falls Church CSB Regional Projects Office is the fiscal agent for projects supporting clients in the Northern Virginia area (Region 2). Virginia’s Region 2 CSBs include Prince William, Alexandria, Arlington, Loudoun, and Fairfax-Falls Church. State-mandated reporting requires pulling data from multiple sources throughout the region including CSBs, private and state hospitals, the NVMHI, and other relevant providers. Data Warehouse capabilities are needed in the region to ensure greater flexibility to dissect data in multiple ways to evaluate the effectiveness and benefit of programs being administered under the Regional Projects office. Congressionally directed funding of $800k will be used to create an initial data warehouse at the CSB. The project is aligned with the Fairfax County Health and Human Services Road Map developed in 2016 as data and the need to access data for analysis remains a top county and agency priority. Currently, there is a gap in the analytics space and CSB will be using funding create a needed technical architecture and data repository for transactional data that is normalized and optimized for operational performance, internal analytics, performance improvement, and overall analysis of health data outcomes related to improved client care. The creation of this agency data warehouse will enhance CSB’s responsiveness to the needs of an ever-changing healthcare system, ensure proper assessment of program performance, identify long term trends, and improve the efficiency of critical client services. The project is supported by our community partners and necessary for tracking data that must be reported to the State Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS). CSB reporting is mandated by the Commonwealth of Virginia. Currently each entity submits data individually to the state. A Data Warehouse will allow the county and stakeholders to share data more seamlessly and with greater interoperability. With all CSBs in Region 2 also dealing with overwhelming data reporting requirements, the goal is to move to a regional data warehouse after the CSB launches the initial data warehouse. A regional data warehouse could eliminate the need for each CSB to separately send data to state entities. This will result in an increased ability to meet the regional goal of ensuring timely and accurate reporting. The increased reliability and cadence in which data is reported to the state will also allow for more timely decision making. The initial project will be managed by the Fairfax Falls-Church CSB. As with other DBHDS Region 2 programs and projects, the regional portion of the project will be managed by the Northern Virginia Regional Projects Office (NVRPO), under the authority of the Regional Management Group (RMG). The RMG includes the executive directors of the five Northern Virginia CSBs and the facility director of our local state hospital.
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