Ozarks Rural Health Network’s purpose is to integrate health care services, improve health care delivery systems, increase access to coordinated, quality essential health care services, and improve population health for our region.
The Starke Taskforce for Overdose Prevention (STOP) will build upon existing initiatives at the local and state level; use available resources and provide the structure and educational supports needed to develop the knowledge and expertise of the local providers of healthcare, behavioral healt
The target population (which includes people in the contiguous region of Northeast TN and Southwest VA) is an underserved population that is statistically older, more rural, and has lower household incomes compared to respective state and national averages.
The strategic plan for this project seeks to address current gaps in services/access to care within Chautauqua County as identified through the consortium’ s assessment process, including:
• the need for even wider distribution of naloxone to prevent even more opioid overdose deaths;
This project is addressing treatment prevention and long term recovery in North Central West Virginia. Specifically, the counties of Lewis, Braxton, Upshur and Southern Harrison.
