The Medical University of South Carolina has been awarded $1.75 million from the Health Resources and Services Administration to develop and test the effectiveness and sustainability of the SC Rural Telehealth-enabled Collaborative Care Network (SC-RTECC). The SC-RTECC will deliver psychiatric collaborative care management to 1500 primary care patients over a five-year period in seven diverse, rural, underserved South Carolina counties.
The goal of the project is to test whether telehealth can be used to deliver psychiatric collaborative care management efficiently and sustainably at rural primary care clinics in South Carolina.
The project will be led by Ryan Kruis, Ph.D., director of grants and research at the MUSC Center for Telehealth, one of two HRSA-designated Telehealth Centers of Excellence. The Center will partner with 9 primary care sites in Bamberg, Calhoun, Orangeburg and Williamsburg Counties that are part of MUSC Health’s Regional Health Network, and 10 primary care clinics affiliated with Beaufort Jasper Hampton Comprehensive Health Services, a federally qualified health center (FQHC).
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