Sun River Health, Inc. (dba Hudson River HealthCare) is seeking to provide comprehensive, coordinated behavioral health care by establishing a new Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) program with its primary service location in Shirley, NY.
Project Title:
Sun River Health CCBHC Planning, Development and Implementation, Shirley, NY.
Populations to be Served:
The target population includes those living in the community surrounding Sun River Health's Shirley Health Center in Suffolk County, New York, with a special focus on individuals recovering from Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and those with cooccurring mental and substance use disorders (COD), those with serious mental illness (SMI), and children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED).
Strategies/Interventions:
Sun River Health will conduct a planning and development process to implement a new CCBHC that meets SAMHSA CCHBC Certification criteria. To do this Sun River Health will provide a comprehensive ranger of outreach, screening, treatment, care coordination, and recovery supports aligned with CCBHC Certification Criteria. Services also include PHQ9 depression screening, Columbia Suicide Severity Scale, GAD-7 anxiety screening, Modified Simple Screening Instrument for Substance Abuse (MSSI-SA), Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT), and Rapid Opioid Dependence Screen (RODS), as well as comprehensive psychosocial assessments and psychiatric evaluations.
Project Goals and Objectives:
Through the project, Sun River Health will: develop and implement a sustainable CCBHC service delivery model that is responsive to the mental health and substance use needs of the community and those most at risk for behavioral health disparities; improve access to comprehensive behavioral health care, treatment, and supports for members of the target population through the full implementation of the nine (9) core CCBHC services; develop, implement, and maintain effective CCHBC-wide data-driven continuous quality improvement (CQI) plan for clinical services and clinical management to ensure services delivered through the CCBHC program are of the highest quality; and achieve compliance with all CCBHC Criteria.