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Pulaski County OKs MOU with Cumberland Family Medical Center for HRSA-funded jail reentry health services
Summary
Fiscal Court approved a memorandum of understanding enabling Cumberland Family Medical Center to use an HRSA grant to fund a reentry program that will provide transitional primary care, behavioral health and substance-use services to detainees at release.
Pulaski County Fiscal Court voted to authorize a memorandum of understanding allowing Cumberland Family Medical Center to implement an HRSA-funded reentry program at the Pulaski County Detention Center.
Jailer Anthony introduced the program and asked the court’s permission to allow Tracy Antle, chief operating officer of Cumberland Family Medical Center, to describe the grant. Antle said the federally qualified health center secured a two-year HRSA grant that covers the full salary and benefits of a staff member already working on reentry services and requires an MOU with the county.
"We're a federally qualified health center that covers a number of counties. Pulaski is one of them," Antle said. She described services the grant will fund: same-day primary-care access upon release, medication continuity for chronic conditions, connections to mental-health and substance-use treatment, family counseling and employment supports. Antle said, "We're not billing for anything. It's just at no cost to the jail. It's at no cost to the county."
Antle noted the program will not replace existing jail reentry services but will partner with them and that it requires space in the jail for the program director, Britney Nelk Luttrell. The grant is two years long and is a federal HRSA award that can be renewed; Antle added either party can terminate the MOU with 60 days' notice.
The court approved the MOU by voice vote (motion by Mister Strunk; second by Mister Wilson) and the motion passed.
