Trillium Health Resources briefs commissioners, asks Randolph County to continue $844,000 support

Anthony Ward, regional vice president for Trillium Health Resources, presented the organization’s annual update and funding request to Randolph County commissioners, describing Trillium’s role as the local management entity for Medicaid and related behavioral-health services across a 46-county region.

Ward outlined that about 52% of Trillium’s budget supports Medicaid behavioral-health services, with Medicaid the primary payer and state and local dollars filling gaps. He highlighted local service improvements, including Daymark operating a behavioral-health urgent-care facility in Randolph County and new options for mobile crisis response. Ward said Trillium’s request to the county for fiscal year 2024–25 is $844,000 and said the county’s local funds were designated across several uses: $115,000 for clinicians in Randolph County Schools, $107,008.75 for detention-center clinicians, $20,000 for adult day reporting, and roughly $600,000 for crisis services operated by Daymark.

Leanne Hinkle, a lifelong Randolph County resident and member of Trillium’s governing/regional advisory boards, described programs that have helped family members, including an assistive device program called Tula and family weekends in partnership with Victory Junction. Commissioners asked about the fiscal and program impacts of upcoming statewide plan changes (a child-and-family specialty plan planned for Dec. 1, 2025) and whether transitions will change the number of local individuals Trillium serves; Ward said some populations will move to other statewide plans but that continuity of local-provider relationships is a priority.

The presentation concluded with staff taking commissioners’ questions; Ward said Trillium has not requested an increase to local contributions and asked that the board continue the current designation.