Category: Opioid Epidemic Page
Effectively Tracking and Reducing Prescription Opioid Abuse
A team of physicians at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula (CHOMP) developed the Monterey County Prescribe Safe Initiative as a collaborative effort between physicians, law enforcement, drug recovery centers, pharmacies, and hospital leadership to develop...
Facilitating Consistency of Care for Patients with Substance Use Disorder
Serving a city with a population of just over 32,000, Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau, Alaska wasn’t struggling with packed waiting rooms or a crowded ED. So, when hospital leadership decided it was time to better address support systems for those with SUD, it...
Collective Medical Helps Providers Identify and Prevent Opioid Abuse
It started with a question posed by a patient struggling with an opioid use disorder. When asked about his patterns of abuse, he stated, “I figured that if doctors were willing to just give [opioids] to me to help boost satisfaction scores, it must not be that big a...
Collaboration as a Radical Approach to the Opioid Epidemic
Opioid use disorder continues to be a growing problem in the US—causing 49,068 deaths in 2017 and accounting for 66.4% of all drug overdose-related deaths. Learn how care teams across the country have implemented technology-facilitated collaborative care initiatives...
Collective Medical Helps CHI St. Anthony Hospital Support High-Risk Patients, Address Avoidable Opioid Use
CHI St. Anthony Hospital (St. Anthony) is a rural hospital serving Pendleton, Oregon. The 25-bed critical access hospital is part of the Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) family and currently houses a level four trauma center, four operating rooms, emergency services...