Thursday, April 18, 2024
4/18/2024
Project Abstract Summary Project Title: Increasing Access to Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) in Rural Arizona for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) Applicant Organization Name: Canyonlands Community Health Care (CCHC) Address: 827 Vista Avenue, Page, AZ 86040 Project Director Name: Jessica Cannon, MEd E-mail Address: j.cannon@cchcaz.org Grant Requested: MAT-PDOA FOA No. TI-18-009 Brief Description of Project: This program will provide medication assisted treatment (MAT) to individuals diagnosed with OUD. After an initial assessment, participants in the program will be enrolled in and provided follow up to ensure compliance with their prescribed medication doses. In addition to MAT patients will also be provided the necessary psychosocial support (individual/group therapy and peer recovery support) to maintain treatment participation. Population to be Served: The target populations include all adult residents (general public) within the service area who have OUD. This area consists of economically disadvantaged rural and frontier communities. Given the demographic make-up of the counties served, a significant portion of patients will be Native American and Hispanic/Latino. Strategies/Interventions: This program is built upon the evidence-based practice of the Massachusetts Nurse Care Manager Model. This model is a primary care-based model where the "care partners", teamed with primary care providers, perform initial screening, intake, education, and support induction, follow up, maintenance, utilization and medical management with the provider. CCHC will expand its capacity to serve 190 patients in the first year of the project, with a total capacity of up to 990 patients throughout the project period. Project Goals/Measurable Objectives: The goals of this project are as follows: (1) to increase the number of CCHC facilities that provide MAT from 1 to 5 by the end of Year 1 and from 5 to 10 by the end of Year 2, (2)to strengthen organizational capacity to provide MAT in combination with comprehensive OUD psychosocial services, and (3) to incorporate the use of telehealth services to expand scope of service to provide MAT within 2 years of starting service delivery. The first goal encompasses having three healthcare providers receive DATA waivers and developing a referral process to the MAT program with other agencies. The second goal includes recruiting and training one licensed behavioral staff counselor and two behavioral health technicians and collaborating with local educational institutions to deliver training. The third goal involves improving CCHC's telehealth capacity and providing training on care delivery in a telehealth environment.
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