Health Access Network

Fy 2024 Behavioral Health Service Expansion - Health Access Network (HAN) Was Established as a Federally Qualified Health Center in September 2003. Han Provides Family Practice, Prenatal, Podiatry, Walk-in Care, Dental, Behavioral Health, Care Coordination, Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, Wound Care, Substance Use Treatment, Laboratory, Telehealth, and School-based Health Center Services at Five Rural Sites in Lincoln, Medway, West Enfield, and Lee, Maine. Han’s Service Area Includes 19 Organized Towns, Unorganized Plantations and Territories, in North Central Maine. Han Serves 10,016 Patients With 41,554 Visits in 2023. Han Is Committed to Providing High Quality Services Regardless of Ability to Pay. Han Proposed Use of the BH Expansion Funding to Aid in Eliminating Barriers to Access BH and Sud Services by Placing a Licensed Social Worker (LSW) Among the BH and Medical Teams to Screen and Identify Patients Who Need Assistance With Sdoh, Depression, Anxiety, and Any Other Barrier to Accessing Care to Aid in Reduce Waiting List Times for Both BH and Sud Services as Well as Addressing, Sdoh, Stigma, and Discrimination. Han Proposes to Hire a License Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) to Increase BH Access and Reduce the Number of Patients on the Waiting List for Servicesfrom an Average 100 Patients With a 6 Month Wait. Han Proposes to Hire a Nurse Practitioner to Increase Sud Treatment and Primary Care Access and Reduce the Number of Patients on the Waiting List From an Average of Three Hundred Patients With a 9-12 Month Wait. Han Proposed to Expand Psychiatric Services by Increasing Our Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) Services to 40 Hours a Week a Week From 20 Hours a Week. the Increase in This Service Line Will Allow for Expanded Access to Sud Treatment Such as Moud and Medication Management for MH Disorders. Lastly, Han Proposes to Utilize Funding to Make Minor A/r to Allow for the Addition of the LSW, LCSW, and Pmhnp to Be Co--location of Community Collaboration Partners Who Are Assisting Han Patients With Services Such as Recovery Coaching, Food Insecurity, and Other Barriers to Care Associated With Substance Use Disorder and Behavioral Health. Han Has Already Established Moas With Such Organizations as Savida Health and Women, Infant and Childrens Services (wic). the Request for a Total of $1,000,000.00 in Funding With $600,000.00 in Year One and $400,000 in Year Two Will Include $250,000.00 for Minor A/r in Year One. $125,000.00 Will Be Used to Support a LSW at a Salary of $60,000.00 in Year One and $65,000.00 in Year Two of the Grant Period. $145,000.00 Will Be Used to Support a LCSW at a Salary of $70,000.00 in Year One and $75,000.00 in Year Two of the Grant Period. $250,000.00 Will Be Used to Support a Pmhnp at the Salary of at the Salary of $120,000.00 in Year One and $130,000.00 in Year 2. the Remaining $225,000.00 Will Support the Salary for a Nurse Practitioner at a Salary of $95,000.00 in Year One and $130,000.00 in Year Two. the Addition of the Above Staff and Positions Will Allow for Expansion of Behavioral and Mental Health, Substance Use Disorder, and Primary Care Services by Increasing Access to Sud, Moud, BH, MH, Primary Care and Sdoh Treatment All Co-located After the Completion of Minor Alterations and Renovations.