Monday, December 30, 2024
12/30/2024
Project Abstract Project Title: Behavioral Health Service Expansion (HRSA 24-078) Applicant Name: Piedmont Health Services, Inc. Address: 88 Vilcom Center Drive, Suite 110, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 Contact Name: Daniella Jaimes-Colina, PhD, CEO (Project Director/AO) Contact Phone Number: 919-933-8494 FAX: (919) 933-9201 Email Address: colinad@piedmonthealth.org Web site address: www.piedmonthealth.org Congressional Districts: NC-004, NC-009, NC-013 HRSA Funding Requested: Year 1: $600,000 Year 2: $500,000 (CHC and HCH) Piedmont Health Services, Inc. (PHS) celebrated its 54th anniversary on March 11, 2024. PHS’ diverse seven-county Federal service area includes Alamance, Caswell, Chatham, Lee, Orange, Person, and Randolph Counties. PHS operates ten Joint Commission-accredited, PCMH-recognized community health center fixed sites and a mobile unit. Sites include: 1. Burlington Community Health Center, Burlington NC (Alamance County), f. 2014 2. Carrboro Community Health Center, Carrboro, NC (Orange County), f. 1970; 3. Chapel Hill Community Health Center, Chapel Hill, NC (Orange County), f. 2015; 4. Charles Drew Community Health Center, Burlington, NC (Alamance County), f. 1995; 5.IFC Community Health Center (a HCH shelter site),Chapel Hill, NC (Orange County), f. 2015. 6. Moncure Community Health Center, Moncure, NC (rural Chatham County), f. 1970; 7. Prospect Hill Community Health Center, Prospect Hill, NC (rural Caswell County), f. 1970; 8. Scott Community Health Center, Burlington NC (rural Alamance County), f. 2001; 9. Siler City Community Health Center, Siler City, NC (rural Chatham County), f. 2001; and, 10. Sylvan Community Health Center, Snow Camp, NC (rural Alamance County), a school-based site serving the entire community, f. 2013. Located in communities facing multiple barriers to healthcare access, more than three-quarters of PHS patients are racial/ethnic minority populations that face significant health care disparities; over h alf are uninsured; nearly half prefer care in another language; and nearly all who choose to apply for sliding fee care demonstrate income at or below 200% of the Federal poverty level. PHS serves multiple vulnerable populations with unique needs, including people experiencing homelessness, migrant/seasonal farmworkers and dependents, refugees, the formerly incarcerated, and those living with HIV/AIDS, among others. There remains great unmet need for increased access to integrated behavioral health care in the PHS service area, with <12% of PHS patients overall receiving any integrated behavioral healthcare in 2023. PHS aims to significantly expand the number of patients receiving integrated mental health and substance use disorder treatment, including medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD). To do so it proposes to significantly expand its integrated behavioral health consultant (BHC) staff and establish new programming with local partners including a local school and a county opioid taskforce. It will add MOUD prescribing capacity and assure psychiatric consultation to primary care teams. As an organization with a teaching mission, PHS will continue to strengthen the pipeline of health professionals exposed to integrated behavioral health models and committed to improving primary health care access in North Carolina and nationally.
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).