Rural Health Network Development Planning Grant Program - Community Care of West Virginia, Inc. Federally Qualified Health Center www.ccwv.org Wetzel County, West Virginia Rural Health Network of Wetzel County Community Care of West Virginia, Inc. (“CCWV”) is a community based, non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center (“FQHC”), serving the needs of rural, underserved populations throughout central West Virginia. CCWV operates eighteen (18) health center locations in Braxton, Clay, Harrison, Lewis, Pocahontas, Randolph, and Upshur Counties; a dental clinic in Pocahontas County; and fifty (50) school-based health center locations throughout Braxton, Clay, Harrison, Pocahontas, Lewis, and Upshur Counties. CCWV has been providing healthcare to the medically underserved, regardless of their ability to pay, for over 40 years, and it remains firm in its commitment to identify and serve those medically underserved. In all, CCWV serves some of the most rural and geographically isolated sections of West Virginia. The patients served by CCWV are rural community members of all ages and life cycles. Consistent with Community Care of West Virginia's mission to meet the healthcare needs of rural West Virginians, this project places specific concentration on developing networks among healthcare partners who will establish a care coordination and referral system for the behavioral health and substance use disorder (SUD) needs of Wetzel County, West Virginia residents. This rural and medically underserved area will benefit from the network of healthcare providers who will collectively assess and deploy a comprehensive response to an unmet need for a collaborative behavioral health and SUD care system. This project incorporates strategic planning sessions, the creation of a strong patient referral network, written agreements enabling partners to share resources, and monthly round-table discussions to facilitate the execution of this rural healthcare network development project. The planning and development activities undertaken in this project will focus on the coordination of care for behavioral health and SUD needs of all residents, particularly those who are uninsured/underinsured and are faced with a multitude of social determinants of health that are barriers to accessing healthcare. With clear goals and objectives, this project will achieve rural health efficiencies (Legislative Aim #1) and strengthen the rural healthcare system (Legislative Aim #3) of Wetzel County, West Virginia. This project is also supported with funding preferences for Qualification 1: Health Provider Shortage Area (HPSA) and Qualification 2: Medically Underserved Community.
