Colorado West Regional Mental Health, Inc. DBA Mind Springs Health Certified Community Behavioral Health Center Expansion - Colorado West Regional Mental Health, Inc. DBA Mind Springs Health, Inc.’s (Mind Springs Health, MSH) Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion (CCBHC) project will establish Mind Springs Health as a CCHBC and increase access to and improve quality of mental health and substance use disorder treatment for persons of all ages in nine rural and one semi-urban counties in Northwestern Colorado.
Populations of focus will include Hispanic/Latino immigrants, refugees and asylees and persons experiencing homelessness. Cultural competency training for staff in working with veterans and military personnel will also be included.
Mind Springs Health will serve a total of 14,000 unduplicated clients during the two-year grant period, which will include an increase of 300 members of these focus populations in Year One and 600 in Year Two. The CCBHC project is designed to address service gaps and unmet mental health needs. Service gaps exist due to provider shortages, high cost of care and insurance and lack of insurance, and other social determinants of health (SDoH). Prevalence of mental health and SUD conditions is relatively high in the service area for both adults and children, as compared to state and national rates, and there are disparities for the populations of focus related to these SDoH.
Goals for Mind Springs Health’s CCBHC project include: (1) Elevate standard of care by achieving CCBHC staffing, access, care coordination, scope of services, quality, other reporting, and other organization authority governance and accreditation, (2) Improve MSH capacity to effectively and efficiently treat client needs and symptoms through population health management and evidence-based training, (3) Improve client access to and experience of care by reducing health disparities and system/quality barriers that prevent client access to and engagement in care, (4) Increase capacity to conduct data-driven performance improvement activities by increasing use of technology, staff data literacy, and technology functionality.
MSH will provide a full continuum of outpatient mental health and SUD care, including telehealth options, for prevention, intervention/treatment, and recovery support services, utilizing proven care delivery models such as person/family-based care and evidence-based practices. Strategies and activities for the project are designed to increase standard of care, staff capacity, client experience, clinical outcomes, and technology infrastructure to improve client access and quality of experience, and population health, particularly for Hispanic/Latinos persons experiencing homelessness.
