FY 2024 Behavioral Health Service Expansion - Muskingum Valley Health Centers (MVHC) 33 South 5th Street, Zanesville, Ohio 43701 FQHC Program Manager: Jeanie Blake, Chief Patient Experience Officer, 740-891-9059 jblake@mvhealthcenters.org www.mvhccares.org Proposed Service Region: Muskingum County, Ohio, 43701 Abstract Muskingum Valley Health Centers (MVHC) is a 330(e)-funded, Federally Qualified Health Center located in Southeastern Ohio. MVHC operates eleven health center locations within a four-county region of Muskingum, Coshocton, Morgan, and Guernsey counties. MVHC locations are in Zanesville (Muskingum County), Malta (Morgan County), Cambridge (Guernsey County), and Coshocton (Coshocton County). MVHC provides a full range of medical primary care services including adult health, pediatric health, women’s health, behavioral health, substance abuse treatment, podiatry, dental health, and clinical pharmacy services. MVHC became an FQHC new start in 2008 and has experienced a steady increase in patient volume since opening. Muskingum Valley Health Centers’ mission is to provide affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare. MVHC has corporate recognition as a Level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH). MVHC providers and staff work closely with underserved populations in all four counties to continue to build relationships with patients that will impact and improve the health and wellness of local communities. MVHC serves populations within rural Ohio who demonstrate high risk health behaviors and poor health outcomes. MVHC continues to assess new ways to better serve and provide access to healthcare in the MVHC service area. Muskingum Valley Health Centers is the largest health center in the state of Ohio, serving 72,415 patients in 2023. Within MVHC’s large, rural patient population, there is an identified need for increased access to mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) services in Muskingum County. To meet this need for increased access, MVHC looks to expand mental health and SUD services at our facilities located at 716 Adair Avenue and 915 Putnam Avenue in Zanesville, Ohio. The expansion of behavioral health services at these two facilities will allow us to reach a large patient population of all ages, demographics, and socioeconomic backgrounds. MVHC plans to add a psychiatrist, a nurse practitioner, an RN nurse navigator, and four LPNs at the Adair facility and to add two LSWs to the Putnam Urgent Care facility. The two LSWs will be dedicated to behavioral health and our addiction services programs. A clinical director will be designated to lead the expansion and to oversee all efforts of the behavioral health service lines. Grant dollars would support MVHC’s ability to recruit and employ these key personnel to ensure the need for increased access to these vital services can be made in the Muskingum County community.
