Thursday, December 26, 2024
12/26/2024
Project Title: Ozark Center’s THCGME Expansion Discipline: Psychiatry Type of Application: Expansion Applicant Organization: Ozark Center ? Address: 1105 E 32nd St., Joplin, MO 64804-2879 Project Director: Nauman Ashraf, M.D. ? Phone: (417) 347-7603 ? Fax: 417-347-9810 Email: NAshraf@freemanhealth.com ? Website: www.ozarkcenter.com Funds Requested: 4.00 FTE is requested for each year of grant funding at $160,000/resident/year ($6.4 thousand) for 7.1.22 through 6.30.26 or the established approved amount per resident as approved by the Federal Government. ABSTRACT The Teaching Health Center (THC) Graduate Medical Education (GME) Program at Ozark Center is a 4 year Psychiatry residency program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). KCU-GME Consortium is the programs accredited sponsoring institution. Established as a Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) in 1965, Ozark Center provides comprehensive behavioral health services to children, adults, and families in a four county area surrounding Joplin, Missouri and is now a Certified Community Behavioral Health Center (CCBHC). Jasper, Newton, Barton, and McDonald Counties are located in the southwest corner of Missouri, along the Four State Area border (Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma). The area described above is classified as rural. This geographic area qualifies as a Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA) and includes areas classified as medically underserved. 75% of individuals served at Ozark Center are underinsured or uninsured. An integral part of Freeman Health System in Joplin, Ozark Center provided care to 14,739 individuals in 2021. Freeman is a 407-bed, three-hospital community medical center, which includes one Critical Access Hospital (CAH). It is aligned with other rural medical facilities including Access Family Care (an FQHC) and the Community Clinic (a Section 303 look-alike). Over the past 48 years, Ozark Center has culti vated its patient-centered approach to care in concert with these medical facilities. Residents at Ozark Center have the opportunity to train in multiple settings. Patients diagnosed with a substance use disorder, including opioid dependency, are offered counseling services and medication-assisted treatment to assist with their symptoms utilizing a well-balanced approach. The crisis outreach program is available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week and is accessible by mobile texting to address patient’s need to have services in urgent and emergent situations. The child psychiatry experience is enriched by the opportunity for residents to work at the Bill & Virginia Leffen Center for Autism where staff use Applied Behavior Analysis in the treatment of autism. The residents receive experience in trauma-informed therapy during their outpatient psychiatry rotations. This variety of clinical experiences also stimulates areas of research. To promote residency wellness, an innovative wellness program has been integrated focusing on mental wellbeing. The idea for this project stemmed from research conducted within the residency program. Ozark Center’s Psychiatry Residency Program started in 2012 and was originally accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) but is now accredited by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Ozark Center has received funding through the THCGME Program since 2012, graduating fourteen to date. Ozark Center is requesting expansion funding for 4.00 additional Resident positions (1-1-1-1). For AY 2022-2023 the 4.00 FTE positions will be added to create the overall count to be 4-4-4-4 with the current THCGME Grant funding. This funding will help the program add more medical personal to meet the primary care needs of the rural areas of the United States.
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).