Address: 450 W Adamsville Rd, Florence AZ 8513 Project Director: Elena McGroarty, LPC Contact Phone Number: (480) 983-0065 X 29315 Email Address: Elena.mcGroarty@hhwaz.org Website Address: www.hhwaz.org Grant Funds Requested: $3,000,000 Horizon Health and Wellness (HHW) utilizes best and promising practices to provide culturally responsive, whole person, comprehensive, integrated primary medical care, behavioral health and chronic disease management, that improve health and wellness outcomes for residents in the rural and underserved communities we serve. HHW’s full continuum of services is offered in the office, virtually and in homes or other community locations. HHW meets the patient where they are best served and based on the resources the patient has available. HHW proposes to provide a new Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Access Point in Florence, Arizona. Florence is a rural community that is limited in both behavioral health and primary care providers and currently has no provider or agency that provides MAT. The new Access Point will also serve the community of Coolidge, Arizona which also does not have a MAT provider and is very limited in behavioral health and primary care providers. These communities are small rural areas with populations of 26,785 in Florence and 13,739 in Coolidge. Education levels are low in these communities and poverty is high; in addition, the communities both have a high uninsured population which contributes to the lack of access to MAT and healthcare in general. HHW will provide MAT services at the HHW clinic located in Florence, Arizona. The MAT program will provide comprehensive and integrated substance use treatment services which will not only provide MAT, but assessment, intensive outpatient, standard outpatient, peer support and primary care services. MAT will be provided for both Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). All services will be trauma informed and will include th
e evidence-based interventions of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Motivational Interviewing. Higher levels of care such as residential and inpatient can also be accommodated by HHW if medically necessary. HHW will serve individuals in the Florence and Coolidge communities diagnosed with an OUD or AUD with a primary focus on individuals released from the Pinal County Detention Center and individuals with either a hospital or emergency room admit due to substance use. HHW projects to serve 350 individuals over the course of this grant period.