HHM health improving access to opioid overdose treatment - healing hands ministries was founded to provide compassionate, accessible, quality medical care to the dallas community

As a nurse, founder janna gardner understood the critical difference that quality medical care can make in someone's life. Healing hands is a patient-focused community health center capable of caring for a patient from birth to the end of their life. Healing hands ministries focuses on empowering the community by improving access and delivery of healthcare, providing education to help maintain improved lifestyles and inspires others to take responsibility for their own health. Today, healing hands ministries has rebranded to HHM health, beginning an exciting new chapter of expansion. As an fqhc, HHM health offers family practice, women's health, pediatrics, dental, vision and behavioral health services to patients regardless of ability to pay. HHM health is dedicated to delivering cost-effective, high-quality medical services to residents of dallas county, texas, guided by their mission of providing healthcare to all with love, compassion, and respect. HHM health is applying for samhsa overdose treatment funding to expand access to naloxone and other FDA approved overdose reversal medications through the establishment of evidence-based training of trainers (TOT) programming that focus on policies, procedures and models of care for prescribing, CO-prescribing and expanding access to medications. The need for this project stems from an increase in reported mental health conditions among the target population and an increase in substance use related mortality due to the impacts of the pandemic, poor access to behavioral health care and general impacts of society on mental health. HHM health will conduct the following project activities (more detail behind each activity is included in the…