Sunday, November 24, 2024
11/24/2024
Project Name: Ascension STEMS (Mental & Behavioral Aid) MBA Program Ascension Saint Thomas Emergency Medical Services (STEMS) provides advanced life-support-capable services to a 45-county-wide area in Tennessee, roughly one-half of the 95 counties within our state. In this proposal, we aim to serve a subset of our broader population by focusing on Warren County, TN as our base for activities, with a catchment area of 3 distinct counties including Warren, DeKalb, and Hickman, respectively. Warren County meets criteria for Rural as verified by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP), using zip code 37110 in McMinnville, TN where Ascension Saint Thomas River Park Hospital is located, from which our Warren County STEMS services are based. According to the USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) - the SAMHSA site for determining "rural", "Micropolitan (micro) areas"…” are nonmetro labor-market areas centered on urban clusters of 10,000-49,999 persons and defined with the same criteria used to define metro areas.” Warren County is considered rural based on ERS data, while the other counties are smaller and considered Micropolitan areas. The overall goal for this funding, if awarded, will be to conduct all 10 required EMS grant activities, to support EMS policy development through process improvements based on grant experiences, and to develop two signature programs that align with grant requirements and initiatives of Ascension STEMS to increase services to 3 rural counties identified herein with higher needs for SUD support. Our project is called, Mental and Behavioral Aid (MBA). The 2 additional STEMS MBA project goals include 1) a Mental Health Resiliency Training Program (MHRTP) coupled with an “EMS Peers” support initiative to undergird mental health within our EMS provider ranks and 2) a Community Paramedic Program (CPP) that will support the needs of psychiatric patients in this area. For both programs, we will seek to train staff to provide improved EMS prehospital medicine to our patients in the identified catchment areas. The program aims to equip 15 EMS personnel more readily in one year, followed by a similar number in year two (if funded). These personnel will, in turn, provide mental health resiliency resources to their fellow EMS professionals in these communities, for additional individuals served. Finally, we aim to serve our communities through improved capabilities, therefore increasing the number of people served by this funding to our rural counties' residents, when the need arises.
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).
