Success Stories by State: Missouri

• Ozark Action Inc. Vehicle Repair Loan Program
  September 2009
  The program uses Community Services Block Grant funds to provide loans of up to $500 for vehicle repair. Participants are required to repay the no-interest loan within one year.
• Central Missouri Health Care Outreach (CeMo)
  July 2009
  The project opened a sister clinic that operated out of the Morgan County Health Center. The clinic provided primary care, mental health services, as well as pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, and referral services at no cost to low-income, uninsured individuals.
• Miles For Smiles
  May 2009
  The mission of the Miles for Smiles project was to create a mobile dental unit to provide quality, onsite dental care to low-income children in the seven-county area.
• Rural Health Outreach (Cape Girardeau, Missouri)
  May 2009
  The Cross Trails Medical Center (CTMC) used grant funds for expanded evening hours and hired a nurse educator in the towns of Marble Hill and Advance.
• ElderLynk
  May 2009
  ElderLynk was established to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness and to build awareness of the mental health needs facing rural senior citizens in a 10-county region in northeast Missouri.
• EMS Co-op Helps Rural Providers
  September 2007
  Using the power of group purchasing within a cooperative structure, the North Central EMS Cooperative (NCEMSC) is an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) cooperative developed to serve Minnesota and surrounding states.
• Northeast Missouri Rural Health Network Prescription Drug Assistance Program
  August 2007
  This program assists individuals by gathering the needed data and completing the necessary enrollment forms for free medications available through pharmaceutical companies, generic prescriptions through RxOutreach and/or TogetherRx drug discount cards depending on their income level.
• Lafayette County 4 Health Project
  January 2007
  The project will incorporate community education and outreach approaches to connect vulnerable, low-income populations to an integrated network of local health and social support services.
• Mercer County Behavioral Health Outreach Project
  January 2007
  The Mercer County Behavioral Health Outreach Project sought to increase access of children and isolated rural farm families to behavioral health care by providing outreach and education resources and promoting greater community involvement in an integrated network of services.
• Community Care Clinic
  July 2005
  Four network members funded and established a clinic to link existing health care providers and social services agencies to address and provide for the medical, emotional, and health education needs of individuals and families in seven counties designated Health Professional Shortage Areas.