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Dr. Sarah Chouinard is a rural health expert and Chief Medical Officer at Community Care of West Virginia, a federally qualified health center operating 17 outpatient clinics and 50 school-based centers across 9 counties in central West Virginia. She recently served as National Faculty for CMS’s Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative, and was previously recognized by the West Virginia Rural Health Association as “Rural Practitioner of the Year.” In our discussion today, Dr. Chouinard shares the startling reality of what clinicians experience on the ground in rural communities, and how care can be transformed to better meet local needs.
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BCBS Association
This episode is sponsored by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. Blue Shield companies are supporting health care partners on the frontline of this unprecedented fight. Ensuring patients don’t have to worry about costs. Caring when it counts the most, for the Health of America. Learn more about what BCBSA and Blue Shield companies are doing to help address the opioid epidemic and behavioral health needs nationwide, from their innovative collaboration with WorkIt Health that provides 24/7 counselor access through its mobile app, to their state-level collaboration where in Montana they helped create the state’s first-ever psychiatric residency program to help address clinician shortages, and their efforts to help boost healthcare professionals’ capacity to treat patients with opioid use disorder with the doctor education initiative Project Echo. They are also doing commendable work in North Carolina and Senator Frist’s home state of Tennessee.
