With the onboarding of new clinical staff at Chillicothe and Marietta, the organization now has 380 active users on its Electronic Health Record system. The milestone reflects full staffing across all 12 sites following the 2024 Ohio expansion.
The Kentucky Workforce Innovation Coalition cited the organization's clinical staff retention initiatives, peer support investments, and three-state expansion model. The recognition follows a workforce review of community behavioral health employers across Kentucky.
The system-wide initiative integrates routine outcome measurement (PHQ-9, GAD-7, AUDIT, PCL-5) into every clinical encounter, with results visualized for clinicians in real-time. The rollout was supported by a $375,000 grant from the Bingham Foundation.
The pilot, structured in collaboration with two regional FQHC partners, embeds behavioral health clinicians alongside primary care providers, enabling warm handoffs and shared care planning within a single visit.
The Council represents 47 community behavioral health organizations across Kentucky and advocates on Medicaid policy, workforce, and CCBHC certification.
The Chillicothe site, located at 220 Plyleys Lane in the city's healthcare district, provides outpatient mental health, substance use disorder treatment, and crisis services across the Hocking Valley.
Dr. Fitzgerald, who holds a PhD in Family Therapy from Purdue University, leads Tributary's quality improvement, outcomes measurement, and CCBHC quality metrics reporting.
The four-year grant funds mobile crisis response teams, walk-in crisis assessment capability, and crisis stabilization at the Lexington and Charleston sites.
Under the partnership, Tributary clinicians provide on-site individual and group therapy, behavioral consultation, and crisis response across nine Boyd County schools, serving approximately 4,200 students.
Dr. Kim, a clinical psychologist with a PsyD from Wright State University, joins from Centerstone, where she served as Regional Director of Clinical Services.
The Athens clinic, on East State Street, provides outpatient mental health, substance use disorder treatment, and family services to seven counties in southeast Ohio.
The three-year HRSA grant supports medication-assisted treatment (MAT) clinical capacity, peer recovery coaches, and aftercare programming at the Lexington residential site.
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