H79SM086410

MLCC, a PA CCBHC & EXPANSION GRANT awardee, will further increase access and capacity, enhance and expand services to SUD, SMI through complex care coordination, partnerships, and enhanced clinical teams. Through the CCBHC-IA (Improvement and Advancement Grant) project, Mercy Life Center Corporation's (MLCC) goal is to increase access to and improve coordination of primary care and CCBHC services at MLCC. This will provide comprehensive patient screening and effective treatment services to people from four identified vulnerable populations (homeless, justice-informed, veterans, and at-risk co-occurring behavioral health and SUD clients not engaged in behavioral health services in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

This will be accomplished through collaborative partnerships, enhanced clinical treatment teams, and comprehensive care coordination. MLCC proposes utilizing a data-driven framework that defines and measures the clinical interventions, processes, and workflows that support the objectives related to this goal. This will ensure a high degree of fidelity. Therefore, system-wide practices will be implemented to collect and utilize individual and population-based data to inform decisions that improve quality, efficacy, and value.

Provision of services will include:
1) Outreach to clients from vulnerable populations leading to enrollment in MLCC's primary care services and nine core CCBHC services, screening, monitoring, and tele-psychiatry and tele-consultation.
2) Care management and care planning focused on risk stratification and using predictive risk analytics to guide intervention activities and evidence-based practices.
3) Coordination and linkage to housing stability resources.
4) Measurement of utilization and effectiveness of evidence-based practices utilized to treat the target populations.

Population-focused services will:
1) Effectively engage, screen, assess, and coordinate care through a complex care management model.
2) Provide increased access to mental health, substance use disorder, and co-occurring disorder treatment and primary care, as well as ancillary services.
3) Institute a safety net for community providers to coordinate and access care across systems.
4) Provide access to tele-psychiatry and teleconsultation services to address gaps in care related to readiness to engage, social disparities, and provider shortage areas.

These key areas address several risk factors that affect the target populations, including the lack of care coordination for the most vulnerable individuals in our communities, as well as the significant mortality gap in which people with mental illness are more likely to die earlier, be incarcerated, experience homelessness, and have co-occurring health conditions than the general population.

Better outcomes will be accomplished by improving access to primary care and the nine CCBHC core services, which include SUD treatment and homeless services, as well as addressing access to provider shortage and barriers to accessing traditional behavioral health care.

Throughout the life of the grant, 540 unduplicated individuals from the target populations will be served, with 2,566 assessments completed. The project will utilize the evidence-based practices (EBPs) of illness management and recovery (IMR), motivational interviewing (MI), harm reduction, and trauma-informed approaches and interventions to engage and maintain individuals in services.

MLCC, by building upon the CCBHC model, will increase capacity and outcomes for the target vulnerable population by meeting the following objectives:
1) MLCC will increase access to physical health care services for persons from our identified vulnerable populations of homeless, justice-informed, veterans, and at-risk clients not engaged in co-occurring mental health and substance use disorder treatment. This will be achieved by referring or providing one or more of our nine CCBHC core services, with a 5% increase each year and a 20% increase over the life of the grant.
2) MLCC will screen 540 unduplicated clients and increase the number of persons linked each year by 10% (40% over the lifetime of the grant) from vulnerable populations.

Mercy Life Center Corporation

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROGRAM IS TO INCREASE ACCESS TO AND IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF COMMUNITY MENTAL AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER TREATMENT SERVICES THROUGH THE EXPANSION OF CCBHCS. CCBHCS PROVIDE PERSON- AND FAMILY-CENTERED INTEGRATED SERVICES.

93.696 - Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion Grants

Division of Grants Management [HHS - SAMHSA]

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 152332109 United States

Single Zip Code

Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC)– Improvement and Advancement Grants (SM-22-012)

Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 311% from $936,826 to $3,852,730.