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Origin Story Health says $91,500 in county opioid-abatement funds helped keep 110 patients in care
Summary
Amanda Haber of Origin Story Health told the Warren County Fiscal Court the court’s $91,500 allocation paid clinicians and administrative supports that kept 110 people with substance-use disorders in treatment, including 23 who received medication-assisted therapy; the group urged court help in accessing larger state and federal opioid-abatement grants.
Amanda Haber, a representative of Origin Story Health, told the Warren County Fiscal Court on Tuesday that $91,500 the court allocated from opioid-abatement funds allowed her team to keep its doors open and deliver care to 110 local residents with substance-use disorders. "Because of you, we treated 110 individuals with substance use disorder and opioid use disorder in this community," Haber said.
Haber said the original plan was to use roughly $65,000 for direct care (paying providers and maintaining health-records and e-prescribing systems), about $21,000 for grant-writing and another $5,500 for credentialing and contracting assistance. She told the court those amounts were “almost exactly how those funds were spent.”
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