Rural Health Network Development Planning Grant Program - Organization Name: Mosaic Medical Center Maryville Address: 2016 S Main St., Maryville, MO 64468 Type of entity: Rural, nonprofit health organization Website: www.mymlc.com/Main/Location/maryville-mo/mosaic-medical-center-maryville Project Director: Nate Blackford, President, Mosaic Medical Center Maryville; Phone: (660) 541-1750 ; Email: Nate.Blackford@mymlc.com; Project Track: Regular Network Planning Grant Track Network Name: Rural Northwest Missouri Behavioral Health Consortium Legislative Aim: Aim #1: Achieve Efficiencies Focus Area: Regular Network Planning Track: Mosaic Medical Center Maryville’s focus area is Care Coordination. Proposed Service Region: State: Missouri; Cities: Maryville, Albany; Counties: Andrew (Census Tracts 102.02, 103, and 104), Atchison, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway, Worth. The Rural Northwest Missouri Behavioral Health Consortium, comprised of 100% HRSA-designated rural area partners include Mosaic Medical Center Maryville (rural, nonprofit health organization); Mosaic Medical Center Albany (critical access hospital); Family Guidance Center (certified community behavioral health center); Northwest Missouri State University (wellness center); and New Beginnings Counseling Group (private provider). They have come together to address a growing pediatric (children ages 3-18) mental health crisis in rural northwest Missouri. This underserved population does not have access to the mental health resources necessary to lead a productive life in the community, including shortages of staff, service types, and distance to services. These entities have partnered as needed for decades, but the increasing crisis combined with staffing and financial challenges have motivated these partners to take their relationship to the next level. For example, Family Guidance Center responds to calls from the emergency rooms at Mosaic medical centers and Mosaic responds to crises at the university. Mosaic employs community liaisons who have built relationships within and across sectors of these rural communities (e.g., schools, primary care, community members). The network partners are interested in how they can integrate their functions and share clinical or administrative resources. This planning grant will be their first step toward this collaboration with the shared responsibility of the project director. In addition, shared data and formal referral processes have been part of many discussions before but have never risen to the level of activity proposed in the planning grant. The partners have proposed funds for legal support to start tackling the data-sharing issue, instead of continued caution on data sharing. The network will address how young people in need of services enter the system and, depending upon their immediate and ongoing identified needs, how they transition between outpatient and inpatient care both in and outside of their home communities. The network will also address how providers within and outside the network implement discharge and treatment planning to effectively avoid setback or crisis. The goals are to 1) create an infrastructure for optimizing utilization of resources; and 2) create a regional behavioral health network strategic plan to address pediatric mental health to achieve efficiencies (Legislative Aim #1) across mental health and non-mental health network partners. The project is requesting a funding preference based upon qualification #1 due to its location in a designated health professional shortage area (HPSA).
