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Episode 11: December 2023
Network-Wide CRN User News
Community Spotlight
Serving all regions: Mesa County, West Mountain, and Delta/Montrose/Gunnison
Doing Good for Others
Beneficent connects seniors and disabled individuals to funds that pay for the high-quality care our industry partners provide. They have a 100% application success rate for the programs covering the costs of assisted living, adult day care, non-medical home care, assisted living, and skilled nursing facilities. They serve the whole state of Colorado.
Beneficent has been privileged to successfully assist thousands of families and individuals through asset preservation while coping with long-term care costs. They consider the trust extended to them over the last 20-plus years with their community partners and clients to be among their greatest honors.
They understand firsthand the mental, emotional, and financial toll placed on families to pay for long-term care. They also understand Senior Care Communities and Nonmedical Companies feeling overwhelmed and overloaded with the number of people they must turn away because they don’t financially qualify for all the care they need.
At Beneficent, they enjoy providing financial certainty and confidence for everyone.
Earn CE credit! Join your industry peers to learn more about long-term care funding, common Medicaid myths, and the best next steps to help your clients get the care they need. We host online learning events, and we can customize events just for you and your team.
Conatct: 719-645-8350 | Website Click Here
Training
New! 2024 Training Schedule Released:
Healthier Together Summit
Join us for a day of fantastic speakers and connecting for better health.
In 2024, QHN will celebrate 20 years of community collaboration by connecting and innovating healthcare, behavioral, and social organizations to provide crucial information that ensures people get the care and services they need quickly and efficiently.
We are looking forward to reuniting to ignite creativity and exploration, foster lively discussions that advance healthcare and address the social determinants of health, and share some laughter and successes.
We will hear from industry leaders like Kim Bimestefer (HCPF) and Lisa Bari (Civitas), as well as Craig Zablocki, who will guide us through what it means to transform through vulnerability and authenticity. There will also be a robust resource fair – an opportunity for you to highlight your good work and see the incredible resources that are offered in western Colorado – along with several thought-provoking Hot Topics sessions.
SAVE THE DATE! Thursday, April 25th, 2024. Registration opens on January 25th.
There will be no CRN April Collaborative. Instead, please join us for the Healthier Together Summit. Scholarships and complimentary tickets are available for CRN Network Partners and other non-profit organizations. You will also have the opportunity to bring a booth to the Summit’s resource fair.
Contact Charity for more info: cmeinhart@qualityhealthnetwork.org
Utilization
Network-Wide Utilization Stats
(to see region-specific numbers, scroll to the bottom)
Regional News
West Mountain News
Welcome Our New CRN Partners in West Mountain!
AeroCare
AdaptHealth is dedicated to providing excellent services to our patients while ensuring the quality and professionalism they deserve. We provide genuine care and the most up-to-date, quality medical products available for the patients we serve. We empower patients to live their best lives by providing comprehensive products, services, and supplies.
Regions Served: West Mountain, Delta, Montrose, Mesa, Southwest, West Mountain
CRN Usage: Receives Referrals
Recovery Resources
We empower people to overcome adversity by creating a New Story of recovery and resilience. We envision a community where everyone has equitable access to the resources and support they need to overcome serious adversities like addiction and homelessness. We believe in your autonomy and your ability to overcome life’s challenges by building resilience and tapping into your own inner strengths. We know it’s not easy, but we believe you can do it with the right support. We meet each person where they are and help them write a New Story for the life they want to live; developing clear pathways towards the next chapter of transition or recovery. We respect each person’s individual process, and work collaboratively with our clients to develop personalized treatment or transition plans matched to their unique lifestyle and goals. We also provide compassionate care management and coordination that gives people a clear path forward to success; which means our clients get to focus their valuable energy on the life-changing experience ahead.
Regions Served: West Mountain
CRN Usage: Sending Referrals, Receiving Referrals, Joining Care Teams
Parent and Family Wellness Center
The Parent and Family Wellness Center provides psychotherapy and medication evaluation and management. While we do have an office in Boulder, our practice serves individuals, couples, and families throughout Colorado through telehealth. Our specialty is perinatal mental wellness, but we work with a wide array of clients who fall well outside that category (including men). We offer couples and individual counseling, parent-child dyadic therapy (in-person only), and we work with teens.
To the best of our abilities, we are committed to making high-quality mental health care accessible to all. We have a Spanish-speaking bi-cultural clinician on staff. In some counties, we partner with grant agencies to provide vouchers for free care to those who are uninsured or underinsured.
We offer free perinatal wellness check-ins, which can be helpful for those who are hesitant about receiving mental health support. We also offer monthly free workshops on PMAD prevention.
Regions Served: All
CRN Use: Accepting and sending referrals, joining care teams
Identity Insights
Identity Insights is a group practice that serves our LGBTQ2S+ and gender-diverse communities on the western slope and across Colorado. We provide gender-affirming letters of support for hormone-affirming therapy (HAT), gender-affirming surgeries (GAS), and other mental health support. Our providers specialize in trauma and EMDR, diversity issues, somatic work, and allyship. Our team also incorporates a variety of therapeutic modalities including CBT, (cognitive behavioral therapy), Motivational interviewing, EFT (emotional freedom techniques), EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), IFS (internal family systems), SFT (solution-focused therapy), DBT (dialectical behavioral therapy), and parts work. We provide in-office and telehealth services for client convenience.
Regions: Mesa, Delta, Montrose, West Mountain
CRN Usage: Sending and Receiving of Referrals, Case Management, Joining Care Teams
Mesa County News
Community Spotlight Mesa County
Access to Nutritious Food
Community Food Bank is an independent nonprofit serving Mesa County for 45 years. Our mission is to provide a short-term supply of nutritious food and access to available hunger relief resources to anyone in Mesa County experiencing need. While we are constantly changing and growing,
In-Person Shopping – The pantry is a self-choice pantry. Any community member can register with Community Food Bank and make an appointment to shop through the pantry up to 1x/week, 24 possible visits per year. No prerequisites. No ID required. Our pantry features fresh fruits & veggies, milk, eggs, meat, and bread in addition to shelf-stable foods. Clients go through the warehouse with a shopping cart and choose the items that work best for them. This model emphasizes client dignity while reducing food waste.
Home Delivery – 1x/monthly food box delivery for qualifying community members without a proxy to pick up food, no transportation options, and physical disabilities or medical conditions that inhibit their ability to access the pantry. Ongoing monthly deliveries require a referral from a medical provider or case manager. Both fresh and nonperishable food items are provided in deliveries. While clients can indicate food allergies and/or cooking limitations, exact foods included are determined by our current inventory. We encourage everyone to access our in-person pantry if able to ensure they can select the foods they prefer and so we can reserve the delivery program for our most vulnerable community members.
Resource Navigation – Our team can assist community members to submit a SNAP application, update existing SNAP applications, or simply provide more information and guidance concerning the program. We can also help families apply for the WIC program. Our navigators are dedicated to helping clients find additional local resources to better improve their lives.
Conatct: 970-640-0336 | Website Click Here
Welcome Our New CRN Partners in Mesa County!
AeroCare
AdaptHealth is dedicated to providing excellent services to our patients while ensuring the quality and professionalism they deserve. We provide genuine care and the most up-to-date, quality medical products available for the patients we serve. We empower patients to live their best lives by providing comprehensive products, services, and supplies.
Regions Served: West Mountain, Delta, Montrose, Mesa, Southwest, West Mountain
CRN Usage: Receives Referrals
Identity Insights
Identity Insights is a group practice that serves our LGBTQ2S+ and gender-diverse communities on the western slope and across Colorado. We provide gender-affirming letters of support for hormone-affirming therapy (HAT), gender-affirming surgeries (GAS), and other mental health support. Our providers specialize in trauma and EMDR, diversity issues, somatic work, and allyship. Our team also incorporates a variety of therapeutic modalities including CBT, (cognitive behavioral therapy), Motivational interviewing, EFT (emotional freedom techniques), EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), IFS (internal family systems), SFT (solution-focused therapy), DBT (dialectical behavioral therapy), and parts work. We provide in-office and telehealth services for client convenience.
Regions: Mesa, Delta, Montrose, West Mountain
CRN Usage: Sending and Receiving of Referrals, Case Management, Joining Care Teams
Parent and Family Wellness Center
The Parent and Family Wellness Center provides psychotherapy and medication evaluation and management. While we do have an office in Boulder, our practice serves individuals, couples, and families throughout Colorado through telehealth. Our specialty is perinatal mental wellness, but we work with a wide array of clients who fall well outside that category (including men). We offer couples and individual counseling, parent-child dyadic therapy (in-person only), and we work with teens.
To the best of our abilities, we are committed to making high-quality mental health care accessible to all. We have a Spanish-speaking bi-cultural clinician on staff. In some counties, we partner with grant agencies to provide vouchers for free care to those who are uninsured or underinsured.
We offer free perinatal wellness check-ins, which can be helpful for those who are hesitant about receiving mental health support. We also offer monthly free workshops on PMAD prevention.
Regions Served: All
CRN Use: Accepting and sending referrals, joining care teams
Delta/ Montrose/ Gunnison News
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Community Spotlight Delta/Montrose/Gunnison Region
Connecting Your Community
All Points Transit is a 501c3 non-profit organization providing public transit services for seniors, people with disabilities and the general public in communities throughout Montrose, Delta, San Miguel and Ouray counties.
The mission of All Points Transit is to provide safe, reliable and accessible transportation for all, supporting continued independence and enhanced quality of life. The vision is to deliver and operate a transportation system that emphasizes safety, environmental sensitivity, quality, and accessibility through the efficient movement of people, enhancing the economic vitality of the region. All Points Transit also provides public bus routes in Montrose with our Blue and Orange routes, we also connect to Delta with our MOD route, which stops at the Montrose Airport every two hours.
Over 30 years ago,Montrose County residents began providing transportation for their elderly and disabled friends and neighbors to doctors’ appointments, senior meals, and other needed services. In 1989, the Montrose County Senior Citizens Transportation officially incorporated and was approved for a 501c3 status in April of 1990. Since then, seniors and people with disabilities have been receiving transportation services within Montrose County, including the communities of Montrose, Olathe, Nucla, Naturita, Norwood, Paradox, Bedrock and Redvale.
In 2008, All Points Transit expanded to provide service in Delta County and now also serves the communities of Delta, Cedaredge, Hotchkiss, Paonia, Orchard City and Crawford.
Because of the overwhelming demand for transportation in the City of Montrose, All Points Transit launched the Montrose City Bus in August of 2010.
Conatct: 970-249-0128 | Website Click Here
Welcome Our New CRN Partners in Montrose/Delta/Gunnison!
AeroCare
AdaptHealth is dedicated to providing excellent services to our patients while ensuring the quality and professionalism they deserve. We provide genuine care and the most up-to-date, quality medical products available for the patients we serve. We empower patients to live their best lives by providing comprehensive products, services, and supplies.
Regions Served: West Mountain, Delta, Montrose, Mesa, Southwest, West Mountain
CRN Usage: Receives Referrals
Identity Insights
Identity Insights is a group practice that serves our LGBTQ2S+ and gender-diverse communities on the western slope and across Colorado. We provide gender-affirming letters of support for hormone-affirming therapy (HAT), gender-affirming surgeries (GAS), and other mental health support. Our providers specialize in trauma and EMDR, diversity issues, somatic work, and allyship. Our team also incorporates a variety of therapeutic modalities including CBT, (cognitive behavioral therapy), Motivational interviewing, EFT (emotional freedom techniques), EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), IFS (internal family systems), SFT (solution-focused therapy), DBT (dialectical behavioral therapy), and parts work. We provide in-office and telehealth services for client convenience.
Regions: Mesa, Delta, Montrose, West Mountain
CRN Usage: Sending and Receiving of Referrals, Case Management, Joining Care Teams
Parent and Family Wellness Center
The Parent and Family Wellness Center provides psychotherapy and medication evaluation and management. While we do have an office in Boulder, our practice serves individuals, couples, and families throughout Colorado through telehealth. Our specialty is perinatal mental wellness, but we work with a wide array of clients who fall well outside that category (including men). We offer couples and individual counseling, parent-child dyadic therapy (in-person only), and we work with teens.
To the best of our abilities, we are committed to making high-quality mental health care accessible to all. We have a Spanish-speaking bi-cultural clinician on staff. In some counties, we partner with grant agencies to provide vouchers for free care to those who are uninsured or underinsured.
We offer free perinatal wellness check-ins, which can be helpful for those who are hesitant about receiving mental health support. We also offer monthly free workshops on PMAD prevention.
Regions Served: All
CRN Use: Accepting and sending referrals, joining care teams
Helpful Resources for December 2023
from the Colorado Regional Health Connector Program
Funding Opportunities –
- Funding (no deadline) – Building and Bridging Connections Funding
- Loans (no deadline noted) – Rural Community Facility Loans
- Funding (open for non-binding letters of intent) – Making Care Primary Model
- Funding (due 12/15) – The Bureau of Justice Assistance is announcing a national funding opportunity.
- The one-year planning initiative is designed for rural justice and public safety practitioners; public health and behavioral health practitioners; city, county, and tribal leaders; and community groups. The planning initiative empowers rural practitioners to build deeper networks, particularly across sectors; adopt bold solutions to the persistent challenge of substance use and misuse in rural communities; and reimagine how diverse systems with different missions can engage with one another to more effectively serve justice[1]involved individuals with substance use or co-occurring disorders.
- Click on this link for more information: https://bja.ojp.gov/news/apply-participate-reaching-rural-initiative
- Funding (due 12/22) – Policies for Action Effects of State Preemption Policies on Racial Justice and Health Equity
- Funding (due 1/12) – Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program
- Funding (due 1/30) – Environmental Justice Community Innovator Challenge
- Funding (extended through May 31, 2024) – COVID-19 Health Equity and Immunization Funding Opportunity
- Funding (due 1/31) – Health Disparities and Community Grant Program. The three-year grant cycle will fund projects to improve social infrastructure and health outcomes that eventually reduce health inequities and disparities. Funds will support projects that create and launch a foundation for making changes to public, systems-level, and organizational policies, practices, rules, laws, and regulations that influence the health of underrepresented communities. Funded categories that build a foundation to implement systems and policy change include creating strategic plans, building staff and volunteer capacity, providing technical assistance, and providing operational support
Webinars, Trainings & Conferences
- Training – Age-Friendly Public Health Systems (AFPHS) Initiative offers an “AFPHS Champion” designation to empower and encourage more leaders to champion healthy aging. This recognition honors public health professionals who are committed to expanding their knowledge about healthy aging and want to lead their departments and organizations in becoming age-friendly. Anyone can become a Champion! Reaching this status is simple: individuals who attend or view at least six AFPHS monthly trainings will be designated as AFPHS Champions. Visit the AFPHS Recognition Program page for more information.
- New Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Trainings! November and December training dates are posted! This includes trainings for SBIRT skills, motivational interviewing, and the new SBIRT implementation 101 series! Screening assists providers in identifying and intervening with patients at risk for health problems due to alcohol and other drug use. Contact SBIRTinfo@peerassistanceservices.org to schedule a training for your organization.
- The Naloxone Project (TNP) Has Expanded into Health Clinics! In an effort to get naloxone access to every community in Colorado, The Naloxone Project (TNP) has expanded into health clinics. After working with 108 Emergency Departments and 50 Labor & Delivery rooms across the state, TNP received requests from clinics to receive naloxone for patients who are uninsured, underinsured, have poor access to health care, and patients at risk of opioid overdose. In March 2023, TNP received 6,000 doses of Narcan through the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s (CDPHE) Naloxone Bulk Fund. Since March, 5,442 of the 6,000 doses have been distributed to 53 clinics across Colorado. A diverse group of clinics have enrolled; primary care, OB/GYN, behavioral health, dental, and orthopedics. TNP is honored to support these clinics in distributing this life-saving drug to their communities. The goal is to enroll 45-50 more clinics in the program with this second donation of naloxone. If your clinic is interested in receiving free naloxone for your patients, please respond to this survey. If you have any questions, please contact our outpatient project manager, Ms. Kristen Ashworth, at kristen@naloxoneproject.com
- Additionally, TNP is hosting a Harm Reduction for the Holidays Event! Join them on Dec. 14, 2023, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. This family-friendly holiday event aims to get harm-reduction tools into the hands of everyone. With the generosity of various organizations, we will be stuffing stockings with a variety of harm reduction and prevention tools, including our fabulous TNP-branded naloxone keychains. This event will also host vendor tables selling small goods to round out those stockings, small bites, live music, and seasonal drinks for all ages. Get your tickets here!