H79SM083268

Banyan Community Health Center: Increasing Access to Integrated Care for Women and Their Children, Pregnant Women, and WOCBP.

Banyan Health Systems, dba Banyan Community Health Center, Inc. (Banyan or BCHC) and its designated collaborating organization (DCO) Fellowship House (FH), propose the Banyan Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (BCCBHC). This clinic aims to expand access to treatment, improve adherence to, and quality of licensed treatment for substance use disorders (SUD), SUD prevention, serious mental illness (SMI), and co-occurring mental and substance use disorders (COD) in Broward and Miami-Dade counties in Florida.

Furthermore, Banyan's efforts will focus on the Little Havana and Cutler Bay neighborhoods, as well as the northeastern Broward County areas, where Banyan has been a major presence for 50 years. The Banyan CCBHC will deliver its services to women of childbearing potential and their children who have been diagnosed with SUD, SMI, COD, or children diagnosed with trauma, cognitive, or developmental delays.

Banyan's innovation lies in the creation of comprehensive and fully integrated primary care SUD, SMI, and COD prevention and treatment services. By utilizing artificial intelligence to facilitate population health management, Banyan CCBHC will effectively access the database information of both partners. Combined with Banyan's existing telehealth capacity, Banyan and its partners will be able to more effectively collaborate on treatment planning and address crises and other untoward events together with all the practitioners involved in a POF members' treatment.

Specifically, the Banyan CCBHC aims to bring these services to 350 POF members in year 1 and 450 in year 2, totaling 800 individuals. To reach this total, Banyan and FH anticipate screening 500 individuals each year who are not currently connected to treatment.

The goals of the proposed project include expanding the number of POF members receiving comprehensive SUD/SMI/COD treatment by 800 over the two-year project period, improving treatment and prevention services' effectiveness, reducing substance abuse among the POF, reducing the severity of symptoms and improving treatment adherence, reducing relapses requiring hospitalization, increasing the subjective sense of participants' well-being, and improving their quality of life.

Banyan's CCBHC will focus outreach and engagement efforts on members of the POF who appear to have the most serious needs or have reached the point where they are ready to make positive changes in their lives but do not know where to turn. The proposed project will significantly reduce hospital admissions, length of stay, and emergency department (ED) visits by POF members compared to their use of inpatient and ED services in the prior year. The Banyan CCBHC also anticipates working with child welfare to reduce out-of-home placements by helping POF mothers become better parents. Additionally, the project will result in fewer babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome and/or low birth weight. Finally, Banyan anticipates year-over-year improvements in these statistics within the two-year project period, as well as when measured against prior years. These outcomes are made possible by using the predictive power of the project's software to plan interventions that are both timely and effective with the POF.

Banyan Community Health Center

93.829 - Section 223 Demonstration Programs to Improve Community Mental Health Services

Division of Grants Management [HHS - SAMHSA]

Florida United States

State-Wide

Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion Grants (SM-20-012)