Friday, April 4, 2025
4/4/2025
Rural Public Health Workforce Training Network Program - Project Title: West Tennessee Rural Health Workforce Training Network Applicant Organization Name, Address and Website: Baptist Memorial Hospital- Union City, 1201 Bishop St. Union City, TN 38261, baptistonline.org Application Organization Facility Type: Rural Hospital Project Director Name, Title, Contact Information: TBD Proposed workforce training track: Tracks 3 & 4 Target Service Area: Weakley; Gibson; Dyer; Lake; Obion; Henry; Benton; Carroll & Crockett counties in West Tennessee List of proposed network partner organizations: Baptist Memorial Hospital- Union City; Baptist Memorial Hospital- Carroll County; Priority Ambulance; Jackson State Community College; Dyersburg State Community College; Northwest Tennessee Workforce Board Total funding amount requested for the entire three-year period of performance: $1,478,737 Capacity to serve rural underserved populations: This proposal is focused on a network of health care and educational stakeholders committed to developing an integrated network model to improve public health capacity by educating, training and employing community paramedics/EMTs and respiratory therapists. The West Tennessee Public Health Workforce Training Network (Network) was intentionally developed to utilize the unique regional strengths that lie within the Network, to build complementary approaches to increasing numbers of certified paramedics, EMTs and respiratory therapists. This approach will better recognize shared regional assets and challenges, and link programs and data with the human capital assets located in disparate cities, counties and communities of our focused Target Area. The Target Area is comprised of nine counties in the northwest region of Tennessee: Obion, Weakley, Henry, Dyer, Lake, Carroll, Benton, Gibson and Crockett. The primary goal of the Network is to expand the educational, training and employment opportunities for rural West Tennessee residents in the areas of community paramedicine and respiratory therapy. Our network consists of two rural hospitals, two community college institutions, a community emergency response organization, and a regional workforce development board: Baptist Memorial Hospital- Union City, a rural hospital located in Obion County, TN; Baptist Memorial Hospital- Carroll County, a rural hospital located in Carroll County, Tennessee; Priority Ambulance, a private ambulance service that provides 9-1-1- service to communities in West Tennessee; Dyersburg State Community College (DSCC), a public community college in Dyersburg, TN; Jackson State Community College (JSCC), a public community college in Jackson, TN; and Northwest Tennessee Workforce Board, a public workforce board providing workforce services to the nine county target area. Baptist Memorial Hospital- Union City is requesting a funding preference based on qualification 1. Obion County is in a designated HPSA included in Attachment 10. Baptist Memorial Hospital- Union City is requesting special consideration based on the inclusion of a signed MOA/U from all network partners included in Attachment 11.
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