<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0E3qNJ_1H4HgTrA00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0E3qNJ_1H4HgTrA00" width="1795" height="1154" ><figcaption>Prestera personnel, along with Delbarton Mayor Mont Crum and other guests, held a ribbon-cutting Nov. 5 to officially open Prestera Health Services’ new office inside a section of the former Delbarton Grade School building that also houses Delbarton Town Hall. Mingo Messenger photo by Bruce Justice</figcaption></figure>Prior to Nov. 5, Huntington-based Prestera Health Services had nine satellite offices in southern West Virginia fulfilling the health organization’s mission of offering both behavioral health and a great many wrap-around network care services to those in need of them.However, that number of satellite offices changed Nov. 5 when Delbarton Mayor Mont Crum and other guests joined Prestera personnel to hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony that officially opened the organization’s 10th office in a section of the former Delbarton Grade School building.Mingo County now joins Boone, Cabell, Kanawha, Clay, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Putnam and Wayne counties as locations where Prestera has established satellite offices staffed by health professionals ready to serve the community.Amber Miller, who is Marketing and Development Director for Prestera, said the health organization began in 1967 with the mission of establishing a network of care to support every aspect of people’s lives.“We are the largest nonprofit, integrated services in the state of West Virginia,” she said. “Essentially, what that means is care is centered around the whole person. We do everything from behavioral health to primary care to substance use, and we have a plethora of programs in between.”Outpatient Services Director Sarah Sturm said these specific services include those for adults and children, care coordination as a certified behavioral health center, case management, therapy and medication services, school-based services and in-home services, just to conservatively name a few.“We have a lot of services, and all those are already or will be available in each county,” she said. “We grow those services as quickly as we can. We have 18 service lines, and we have several programs under each of those.”Some of the other service lines, Sturm said, include veterans’ services, a 24/7 crisis service, primary care, workforce support, non-emergency medical transport, homeless supportive outreach and healthy aging services.“There are just so many that we have, and they change frequently to make sure we’re taking care of people whose needs change all the time,” Miller said. “Several of the people who will be in this office are from Mingo and Logan counties, so they’re very familiar with the area and very familiar with the people, which is very important.”Sturm said availability of these services is consistent every day.“Anyone can just walk in anytime during the day, and we spend time with them, we’ll do an assessment, get to know what their needs are, and then make our treatment recommendation,” Sturm said. “And anything that we don’t have presently in-house, then we use our telehealth services to connect them to any county so they can get those services that they need. We just want to make access as easy as possible.”Sturm said people getting these services in no way exclude those individuals who may not have immediate access to transportation.“We have staff who can go out and get people and bring them in if they don’t have any kind of independent transportation, and we have mobile units to go to them if they’re unable to get out,” she said. “We have homeless services, and we will meet people under the bridge if that’s where they are. Our goal is to meet them wherever they are and then figure out how we can help them.”Miller said the Delbarton office should be fully staffed and ready to provide all of Prestera’s services in a couple of weeks.For more information, call, (304) 525-7851. A crisis line is also available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That number is, (800) 642-3434.</div></body>

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Prior to Nov. 5, Huntington-based Prestera Health Services had nine satellite offices in southern West Virginia fulfilling the health organization’s mission of offering both behavioral health and a great many wrap-around network care services to those in need of them. However, that number of satellite offices changed Nov. 5...

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Prior to Nov. 5, Huntington-based Prestera Health Services had nine satellite offices in southern West Virginia fulfilling the health organization’s missio

Prestera officially opens new office in Mingo County

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