AHP- ccbhc-IA grant - aspire health partners' (aspire) proposed certified community behavioral health clinic - improvement and advancement (ccbhc-IA)) project will serve individuals in orange and…

AHP- ccbhc-IA grant - aspire health partners' (aspire) proposed certified community behavioral health clinic - improvement and advancement (ccbhc-IA)) project will serve individuals in orange and seminole counties, florida with a mental and/or substance use disorder. The project will provide enhanced and expanded outpatient primary care services targeting individual with opioid use disorder receiving medication assisted treatment. This project will address the needs of the community by increasing system capacity; providing screening, monitoring, and treatment of chronic health conditions; and enhancing mental health and substance use disorder treatment by integrating culturally appropriate primary care services into the treatment regimen. The proposed project will enhance services at aspire's existing primary care outpatient clinic (pcoc) located at aspire's princeton plaza campus in orange county. The princeton plaza pcoc is CO-located with aspire's access center; central receiving center; in-patient acute care unit; medication clinic; mobile response team; and other outpatient and case management services. The proposed project will also fund the creation of two (2) additional pcocs. One will be CO-located at aspire's orlando counseling center (OCC) in orange county. OCC is the site of aspire's mat clinic and HIV overlay services departments. The second clinic will be CO-located at aspire's fernwood campus in seminole county. Fernwood houses aspires outpatient treatment, case management and HIV overlay services in seminole county. The fernwood facility is also the site of a satellite mat clinic. By CO-locating the new pcocs with other aspire behavioral healthcare services, particularly mat clinics, the project will be better able to address the unmet needs and service gaps in the community among individuals with mental health, substance use and CO-occurring disorders. The project goals are to 1) increase the number of patients served at aspire's existing primary care outpatient clinic; 2) establish a new primary care outpatient clinic CO-located with aspire's medication assisted treatment (mat) program to serve clients with opiate use disorder; and 3) establish a new primary care outpatient clinic in seminole county to provide primary care services to patients seeking treatment for behavioral health conditions. The projects objectives are 1) provide primary care services to 900 unduplicated adults over the lifetime of the grant; 2) 90% of participants in the medication assisted treatment program for at least 30 days, will be assessed for, and referred to, primary care services; 3) 90% of clients referred to primary care services will be seen by a provider within 7 days; 4) 90% of participants referred to primary care services will receive screening for hypertension, diabetes, obesity, tobacco use, and hypercholesterolemia within 30 days of referral; and 5) 75% of participants in the program will demonstrate improved functioning at the six-month follow-up (post-intake), as measured by the noms and other local scales. The aspire ccbhc IA project will SERVE100 unduplicated individuals in year 1; 200 in year 2; 300 in year 3; and 300 in year 4; for total of 900 unduplicated individuals served over the year life of the grant.