Fiscal year 2025 expanded hours. - oakland integrated health care network DBA honor community health (HCH) is seeking funding through the hrsa expanded hours (EH) grant opportunity hrsa-25-084

The requested funds will support a significant expansion in access to much-needed access to integrated services for the target patient population HCH serves. The HCH service area has a tremendous need for improved access to an integrated care model for primary care and behavioral health services for all life cycles. HCH currently provides services across the life cycle, including pediatric, adult, and geriatric care. HCH is in the initial phase of the development of an integrated service model specific to behavioral health that includes: consultation with the primary care provider (PCP), licensed master's level behavioral health (BH) clinicians, and use of a team-based model of care including community health workers (CHWS) and care managers to support client progress on clinical and non-clinical care plan goals, through clinician-to-clinician consultation, consultation with parents and family members, and external professionals when appropriate. Interventions and treatment sessions are offered in person or using telehealth and may result in engaging health specialists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and/or certified specialists in addiction medicine who can provide medication-assisted treatment (mat). The successful development and implementation of an evidence-based program is key to long term sustainability. The EH funding will provide additional resources for the integrated team that have been identified as critical needs to continue and sustain these services. This will provide the needed support to achieve the EH program objectives to health centers will use EH funding to further ease patients' ability to access essential health center services during new operating hours such as early weekday mornings, weekday evenings, and weekends, when access to primary care may otherwise be limited or nonexistent in their community. New operating hours will support patients to receive care in a primary care setting, reducing visits to emergency departments. This will reduce health care costs and preserve emergency department capacity for patients with acute needs the funding will provide additional workforce to include a 1.5FTE physician, a 0.5 FTE physician assistant, a 0.5 FTE psychiatric nurse practitioner, a 1.0 FTE care manager a 0.5 FTE behavioral health therapist and a 1.0 FTE community health worker.