Monday, December 9, 2024
12/9/2024
LifeSpring’s Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) project will establish LifeSpring’s Floyd County Clinic as a CCBHC, improving access to and quality of care to behavioral health service for two southern Indiana counties (Floyd County and Harrison County). This project will advance primary care-behavioral health integration with the use of evidence-based practices; serving an unduplicated 1300 patients (year 1: 500; year 2: 800) who have serious mental illness (SMI), substance use disorders (SUD), co-occurring disorders (COD) and youth with serious emotional disturbance (SED). LifeSpring’s service area, Floyd and Harrison Counties, has a population of 117,324. Prevalence rates in the service area of AMI, SMI, and other diagnoses mirror NIMH data: 18.3% of adults (21,323 people) will have any mental illness (AMI), 4.2% of adults (4,894 people) will have SMI, and 49.5% of adolescents (4,770 youths) will have AMI, 22.2% of adolescents (2,139 youths) will have SMI/SED. Nearly 17% of adults drink excessively vs. 16% of Indiana adults and 17% of U.S. adults (CDC). The suicide rate is 13.8/100,000 vs. 14.9 in Indiana and 13.3 in the U.S. (CDC). In the catchment area, 20% of the Medicare population battles depression (CMS). LifeSpring’s CCBHC will provide a range of integrated primary care and behavioral health care services, including crisis care (e.g., 24/7 crisis care, and walk-in clinic hours); mental health screening, assessment, and diagnosis; outpatient primary care screening/monitoring of key behavioral health indicators; patient-centered, integrated treatment planning; MAT and medication management; and comprehensive evidence-based outpatient mental health and substance use services (psychiatric rehabilitation, therapy, Assertive Community Treatment, telehealth, peer/community social support, etc.). LifeSpring will employ multiple evidence-based practices, including CBT, DBT, Motivational Interviewing, Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment, EMDR, A-CRA/CRA, and more. Proposed achievements include decreasing mental health symptomatology by 25%; achieving 45% reported compliance with medication; delivering personalized treatment plans for 100%, decreasing substance use 35%, and achieving 80% patient satisfaction with project service experiences. LifeSpring’s CCBHC project goals include conducting a comprehensive needs assessment and meeting all CCBHC certification requirements by four months after award; expanding/enhancing existing multidisciplinary treatment teams; creating an Advisory Committee; collaborating with community partners to improve patient wellness and addiction recovery; utilizing an evaluation team; and using a continuous quality improvement approach to make improvements and achieve sustainability.
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).
