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County staff seek opioid-settlement and treatment-sales-tax funds to keep mobile psychiatric prescriber in service
Summary
County staff and program partners asked the Mason County commissioners to consider extending short-term funding for a psychiatric prescriber embedded in mobile integrated health, saying the position is a hub for substance-use treatment and crisis response.
County staff and service partners told Mason County commissioners on Sept. 29 they want to preserve a psychiatric prescriber position embedded in the county's mobile integrated health teams.
Travis (county staff) and program leaders described a part-time psychiatric ARNP (referred to in discussion as Christie/Christy) who has worked in both the north and south ends of the county and who provides substance-use treatment, psychiatric assessment, school outreach and weekly jail visits to help stabilize people and link them to medication and follow-up care. Program leaders said the position has produced…
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