Prisma Health-Upstate

Project POWER - Preventing Opioid use disorder and overdoses With Emerging Resources in rural South Carolina aims to improve health care in 3 rural counties and one partially rural county in South Carolina (SC), including Laurens, Greenwood, Oconee and Abbeville, by establishing 11 new MAT access points and increasing the capacity for sustainable MAT service provision in rural areas. Two mobile health clinics (MHC) will operate in all four rural county locations, five primary care clinics will begin to offer MAT in three rural counties (Laurens, Greenwood, and Oconee), one rural emergency department (ED) operating in Laurens County will conduct Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) and MAT initiation with next-day referral, and one rural county jail operating in Oconee County will begin initiating MAT. Project POWER will also apply new academic detailing efforts, ongoing regular office hours, real-time phone and virtual care, and a learning collaborative to support new MAT champions and other team members.