FY 2024 behavioral health service expansion - regional health care clinic, INC

D/b/a/ katy trail community health (katy trail) transitioned into a federally funded community health center in 2006. Their primary service area encompasses pettis, benton, saline, and morgan counties in missouri. The health center focuses on serving low-income, medically underserved populations within this region. By fostering collaborations and strategic partnerships, katy trail aims to enhance the overall well-being of the communities IT serves. Through its commitment to quality care and innovative approaches, katy trail strives to address healthcare disparities and promote healthier lives for all. Katy trail proposed project will increase mental health and substance misuse services, including treatment with medications for opioid use disorder services for its service area. The project will focus on expanding current capacity by increasing access to services through new workforce and developing partnerships with local prevention and treatment agencies. The overall goal is to provide an environment that can respond to all patients' mental health and substance misuse needs. As katy trail continues to grow medical services within its communities, this increases the volume of referrals and patients in need of behavioral health services as well. This project will address the ever-growing need for behavioral health services by employing a psychiatrist, a psychiatric nurse practitioner, and three behavioral health providers. The project will serve youth that are patients of the katy trail's school-based program, all patients at their five clinics, and telehealth services will be available to those patients who are not able to be seen for a face-to-face appointment. Katy trail's behavioral health project will: • provide whole person care with comprehensive primary care, psychiatric services, and behavioral health services through integrated collaborative services. • enhanced standardized screening processes for all patients receiving care at the health center. Screening for depression, anxiety, substance use, and suicidal ideation, during all appointments. • follow a standardized process when there are elevated positive screening tool scores, connecting patients to behavioral health case management to provide support and connect to behavioral health providers for comprehensive behavioral health services (mental health and substance use services). • eliminate wait list and wait time by increasing access. • expand medication assistance treatment, allowing for induction, stabilization, and maintenance, providing an interdisciplinary team to meet medical, psychiatric, and behavioral health needs. Katy trail's health center program grant number is H80CS06668.