Well, that All right, we're going to go ahead and I'm going to go ahead and call the meeting to order. Um, as we go forward, please turn your cell phones to the vibrate and silent and off setting for the opioid abatement advisory board allows any person
to speak regarding any item on the agenda. The speaker is limited to two minutes unless otherwise determined by the chairperson to allow sufficient time for all speakers. Speakers shall refrain from abusive profane remarks, disruptive outward protests, and other conduct which interferes with the orderly conduct of the meeting. Upon completion of the public comment period, discussion is limited to board members and questions raised by the board. So, if you'll please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance.
I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Was the meeting properly advertised? Madam Chair, this meeting was advertised in the Pensacola News Journal on February the 12th in the board's weekly meeting schedule. Great. Thank you. Has everyone
had an opportunity to review the minutes for the meeting? Okay. Do I have a motion to accept them or approve the minutes? Madam Finger, so move. I have a second. Yes. Thank you. Um at this time, we will allow public speakers. Do we have anyone signed up for public speaking? No. Okay. Well, then we're going to move right into item number six on the agenda, which is the opioid budget review. All right. We were able to uh pull in some
more funds for the opioid abatement. So, so far to date, we've received se 7,146,13955. of that we have actually obligated or awarded 5 million 422 $22129.
Great. Next, are there any questions before I move forward? Next we have the reports for the 2425 funding availability awardees community health. Does somebody want to come forward and give an update? Okay. Um EMS core program
things are still going extremely well. Um to date we have transitioned 585 patients out of the 668 that we've encountered. We still maintain an 88% success rate uh with only 46 relapses which is still um hugely incredible. Uh for 2024 we saw uh we had 1,249 appointments. For 25 we went up to 2860. We had a 44% increase year-over-year. and 2026 is going to
be just as robust. Uh from our last reward, uh we've worked on our uh purchasing of the um the mobile clinic. Uh we've got the proposals from ETR working with our fleet management. Um we are about to finalize that purchase by the end of the week and then it's should be uh anywhere between 90 to uh six months give or take I guess is based on supply chain. Um but that's where we're at. Thank
you. Thank you. Um community health, you want to give your update? Sure. Um Walter Arrington, Community Health Northwest Florida. Um, I've got a map for you today. Um, I think it's going to come up on the screens. So, we, um, took the time at community health. We, um, took our core data. Um, and the map I'm showing you right now, I'm going to zoom out. You can see it's a Scambian Santa Rosa County broken out by zip codes. Um, with the, uh, icons being our locations. Um, and it's a heat
map of where all of our core patients live. Um and so you can see um you know between looks like 56 and 70 of our core patients live that's the 05 zip code of course corresponding over here I believe this is the 06 I think this is the 07 um it's just showing kind of the distribution um in the community of everybody being served of course all the way up to the north end of the county um and then come January when we split off um and are also operating Santa Rosa. It also represents
that. Um, one thing that's kind of cool, if I can zoom out some more. Well, come over. Core patients that were inducted in Escambia County started, got a job, moved to East Crest View, moved all the way over here to Chipley, and still drive back and forth for care um within the core program. Um, there's some other stuff within this um map that you can you can look at. um seeing our uninsured rates um just different stuff. Um but it really paints a picture. Um the uninsured rates follows
um a six-year trend or five-year trend. Um so you can see the shifts of uninsured through the county. Um and you can access this if you go to our main landing page at community health and then just back slashwarrington. Um it'll pop up. Um, but we're going to continue to update this both with core information and any other uh relevant um information from our our uniform data system. So, thank you. Thank you. Any questions? Thank you for the update. Ministry Village.
Thank you, Drayton Smith with Ministry Village. you guys have seen the uh the latest rendition. So, a lot of changes had to happen there with getting that building properly set on the uh property boundary lines and with the holding pond and that type of stuff. So, we are finalizing all of that. Hopefully within the next couple of weeks, we'll be completely done and able to move forward with pulling permits by the next month, I hope. So, still on target. Everything else is on target. It looks good. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Any questions? All right.
Waterfront Rescue Mission. We actually probably should remove them because I think they're 100% complete. So, we'll remove them from the next. Okay. Thank you. Um, Lake View Opus. We caught you at the walking time. Walk-in time, didn't we? Oh, Lord, I had to walk a block. Uh, good afternoon everybody. Um, our report for um January of this year. Um, excuse me.
Uh the Opus team distributed 67 boxes of Narcan, uh 53 uh packets of fentanyl test strips, uh six wound care management kits, um and conducted uh eight uh rapid hepatitis C tests and 11 rapid uh HIV tests. Um all of the distributions were made of course through street outreach. And um for uh education sessions they had um total of 12 and 81 contacts
uh for just general street and community outreach um for that month and two referrals to substance use treatment, one referral to uh support group and um they've added one additional uh outreach site uh where we they found a lot of homeless in camp. They're kind of spreading around now because every time they break up a camp, they you know they move to a couple move here, a couple move there. So they're kind of recongiling again, if that's a word. But
that's it for us for January. Thank you. Thank you. Um next we have Lake View Cat. Hi, Patty Hyde for Lake View Cat uh CAT and AIM team. Um we're settling in. We have we're fully staffed now with uh our three staff and uh running groups every week, seeing clients in home, doing uh some family therapy a little bit, doing like conflict resolution between parents and
children. Um And that's where we're at. Thank you. Any questions? Thank you. Thank you. Next, we'll move to the update on the 2526 funding availability awardees. Oh, go ahead. Uh, RMS partner, can I get you back up here real quick? I have one question. Um, you said that it's a there's a 44% increase from last year and you're seeing kind of the
same trend this year. Is that right? Correct. Where where do you think we're missing the boat on this if we're having such an increase or do you even know? Well, in in truth, there's a lot of different rationale. As we see the amount of Narcan use within the community and our overdoses being transported reduce, those patients have to go somewhere. And so, in the past, there wasn't always as easy to access care. I I think it's more of a positive spin for
the way the community is moving than a negative. Um, it's more that people feel more comfortable or feel like it's now time. I I think it's it's the fact that we all as a community are focusing both on both sides of the equation that that this is exactly where we want this to move. We want people to we don't want to focus so much on now that everybody has overdosed. Well, now we're finding a pathway to to remedy that to give these people back their lives. So,
I think this is more not a negative, it's a positive. You just to piggyback on that for Matt, do we have overall numbers either one of us? Are we going up? We going down in the community? We're going up. Up as in more increased overdoses or less? Less. We're seeing less overdoses with program. Um, you know what I'm saying? Like is our community are we headed in the right direction? Like bring I think we're headed in the right direction. We're seeing higher enrollment. Um,
so we're seeing higher enrollment. Um, you know, unfortunately we did experience our first um program overdose and relapse and death. But that it actually wasn't. It wasn't. Okay. No, it was a medically from a pre-existing medical condition. Okay. So we didn't then. That's a good thing. I got to change my data. Yeah. You can say I don't have access to the corners report. But as a community, are we seeing less individuals with the addiction problem?
I mean, I'm not sure how to word that. So, we're not seeing as many people actively. We left our district one meeting today from from the EMS and hospitals. We all meet uh every month and in this case we all mentioned about the the way that most most of our facilities and ourselves we're seeing a complete reduction in the amount of overdose calls that we're receiving and the ones that we do are not necessarily opioidbased. uh we see more meth and and
anytime Narcan's being used it's because tainted what they thought was meth was not meth. Uh so that's really what we're kind of seeing. But if you were to pull most of the EMS agencies uh we are using significantly less Narcan like to the point where we have an abundance which is I have never been able to say that ever. So that's positive news. Um, I think as a community we still need to work on several fronts. We've made a lot of progress, but we still need more
access to care. We need more Matt providers. We need uh more buy in from our hospitals and our community that that using medication to help get off of drugs, it doesn't make you trade one addiction for the other. And that's something that we all face in our as we go out and educate the community and these conversations happen. Um, but I think the more that we continue to talk and the more we continue to educate, the better off our whole community is going to continue being.
So there Yeah. Do I need a phone call? No. So, so really the hospitals, they're good partners. The problem is not necessarily from the administration level. The problem is a provider level. And as we get newer uh educated providers, they're being trained in the emergency room settings how to do these inductions. And so, to that extent, that's positive. when we get patients admitted and
you have an older hospitalist who may not be so familiar or comfortable that takes a little bit more work. Uh that's where we utilize DCF our DCF partners where they have uh physician to physician peers who then are we're working with them to go in and and do inservices uh at the different hospitals to then break down further stigma. But it's all part of, you know, this is a growing pain for the community, but it's a good, it's a better problem to have than what we were talking about what, six, 12 months ago.
You're welcome. Thank you. Uh, next we're going into the 2526 funding availability awardes updates. So for fiscal year 2526, we awarded an additional nine community partners. Um you have BreitBridge, EMS CPS, Health and Hope, Hope Above Fear, uh Lake View, AIM, Ministry Village at Olive,
Offensive, Reap, and the YMCA. Um, all of those contracts have been created, legal has signed off, the community partners have signed off, and they will go before the board of county commissioners tomorrow. Um, once they sign, once the chairwoman signs the contracts, they then get processed through the clerk's office, which usually takes three to four, sometimes five days. Um, and then once those are executed, we'll have a startup meeting with each one of the entities to talk about reimbursement requests, reporting requirements,
all of that. So, I would say sometime in March, they should get the green light to go. Okay. Are there any new items, new business items? Just a new member. Yes. Um, we'd like to welcome Shell Rodriguez as our new board member. Welcome aboard. Um, if there are not any other items, we need to select another date for our next meeting or
our next meeting rather already selected April the 6. Forget about that. Um, all right. Any other items or anything to discuss? It's pretty quick. Okay. Well, the meeting is adjourned.