Project Director: Robert Duehmig, Interim Director, duehmigr@ohsu.edu, 503-494-5540 Workforce Training Tracks: Track 1 and Track 3 Service Area: Crook, Jefferson, Klamath, Malheur, Wasco, and Wheeler counties and the rural portions of Deschutes and Lane counties. Rural census tracts: Lane: 000100, 000500, 000702, 000705, 000706, 000707, 000708, 001400, and 001500; Deschutes: 000100, 000500, 000700, 000800, 000900, and 001001 Network Partner Organizations: Oregon Coalition of Local Health Officials (CLHO), NEON - NE Oregon Network Central Oregon - Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson Counties: Central Oregon Community College; Deschutes County Public Health; Crook County Public Health; and Jefferson County Public Health SW Oregon - Lane and Klamath Counties: Lane County Public Health, Rogue Community College, Klamath County Public Health, Klamath County Tribal Health, Cascade Health Alliance; and Red is the Road to Wellness (RRW) Eastern Oregon - Malheur County: Treasure Valley Community College, Malheur County Public Health, Malheur County Ambulance Service District, Malheur Memorial Health Center North Central Oregon: Wasco-Wheeler counties: Columbia Gorge Community College, North Central Public Health District, One Community Health, Deschutes Rim Health Center, South Wasco Community Health, Wheeler County Public Health, Asher Community Health Center Total funding amount requested: $1,544,094 Activities, capacity and expertise: The Healthy Rural Oregon: Building A Workforce for Community Health project will bring together rural health care providers and training partners in order to meet the need for cross-trained health professionals who can enhance clinical and operational capacity in rural health care clinics, hospitals, emergency responders, and public health departments. Based on input from rural county-based public health departments, local Federally Qualified Health Centers, rural health clinics, EMS services and others, the pro
ject will develop new trainings and cross-train 127 community health workers (CHW) to provide coding, billing, peer support services, medical assisting, and other services that increase organizational efficiency and capacity. Health care providers in Malheur County, in partnership with Treasure Valley Community College, will develop a new community paramedicine training program and train 64 individuals as community paramedics. The Oregon Office of Rural Health (ORH) is the coordinating body for rural health in Oregon. As such, ORH has partnerships with every small and rural hospital, and the rural health clinics, and EMS agencies throughout the state, including those partnering in this proposal. ORH exists in a service role to rural health providers, providing data analysis, technical assistance, education, advocacy, and programs to increase the rural healthcare workforce. Oregon Coalition of Local Health Officials (CLHO), will provide project management; it is a dues-based membership association comprised of Oregon's 32 Local Public Health Authorities (LPHA) and regularly carries out all work in partnership with network partners. Several rural community colleges are participating in the proposal. All will collaborate with participating health care providers to ensure training meets their workforce needs. Oregon Office of Rural Health is requesting a funding preference based on the qualification that all counties contain designated HPSA and MUC/MUP. Oregon Office of Rural Health is requesting special consideration based on the inclusion of a signed MOA/U from all network partners included in Attachment 11.