Intermountain Health Care, Inc.

The Southern Utah Community Opioid MAT Program Accessing Services & Support (COMPASS) program will reduce the morbidity and mortality of substance use disorder (SUD), including opioid use disorder (OUD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD), in the rural areas of Washington County, Utah. The overarching goal is to improve health care in rural areas by establishing new medication-assisted treatment (MAT) access points and increasing the capacity for sustainable MAT service provisions in target area. The partners will work together to: 1) create new MAT access points in Washington County, UT; 2) provide MAT services to the rural community through telehealth and by supporting local providers in implementing MAT services; 3) provide peer recovery support, education, and other wraparound services; 4) train community members and first responders in Mental Health First Aid (MHFA); 5) screen incarcerated individuals prior to release from PCF for OUD, AUD, and MAT needs and link them to care; and 6) link the rural community to partners for behavioral health and specialty and primary care healthcare, as needed. The target population is residents of the rural areas of Washington County, UT who are either at-risk for OUD and/or AUD (O/AUD), are diagnosed with O/AUD, are in treatment and/or recovery for O/AUD, the families/and or caregivers of these individuals and first responders, health care providers, and other community members who are otherwise impacted by O/AUD. While not all of the county is rural, this project will serve persons in all of the county's rural census tracts which are 270200, 270100, 271000, 270901, and 270902. More than half of the county's population is rural. In year one, the project services will be concentrated in Hurricane, UT with telehealth options to increase accessibility. In subsequent years the project services will expand to other rural communities in the county.