Thursday, November 21, 2024
11/21/2024
Project Rural Recovery is a proposal to respond to the need of service accessibility and Governor Lee’s executive order #1 to ensure resources are available to Tennesseans living in distressed rural communities. Through the implementation of integrated mobile health clinics in four (4) Tennessee distressed rural counties and their surrounding counties, Project Rural Recovery will break down barriers of access associated with traditional health care. These counties have been identified as having higher rates of premature death, poor reported mental and physical health, and low infant birth weights (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation County Health Rankings 2019; https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/sites/default/files/state/downloads/CHR2019_TN.pdf). Mobile clinics implemented by two community partners, will meet adults and children with or at-risk of, physical and serious mental health, substance use disorder conditions where they live, work and recover and provide care in their communities of origin and when needed, referrals to more intensive care. The initiative plans to have two thousand four hundred (2,400) encounters per bus per year, for a total of four thousand eight hundred (4,800) encounters annually and to serve one thousand (1,000) patients per bus, per year for a total of two thousand (2,000) patients to be served per year once implementation is in place. Project Rural Recovery has two goals. 1) To create a model of integration between primary care and mental health/substance use disorder providers to serve as a template for reproduction across the State of Tennessee and 2) To engage and treat the rural populations who are currently underserved in order to improve their health status. Patients seen by the interdisciplinary teams on the mobile health clinics will be assessed for medical, mental health, and substance use needs. Individualized treatment plans will be put in place with the consent and willingness of each individual patient. Through the implementation of the integrated mobile health care clinics the State of Tennessee proposes to replace episodic care with coordinated care for all life stages; make the access to whole-person care easy for the patients of rural Tennessee; and implement state-wide policy changes that build a reimbursement structure for unique integrated care programs.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
