“As we have seen in our health center and throughout the media in recent months, the opioid epidemic has had broad effects, crossing gender, race, and class boundaries. The Sacramento Native American Health Center will use a more than $76,000 grant to support patients dealing with substance abuse issues by introducing new and expanded treatment options like MAT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and integrative or holistic therapy to help improve patient outcomes. “We have already had much MAT program success across Marin County, and staffing and programs funded specifically by this grant will focus on building trust among residents of Marin City who struggle with opioid use and the stigma around trauma and behavioral health.” “This very important funding will allow us to expand our efforts to reach some of the most critically affected opioid users,” said JayVon Muhammad, CEO, Marin City Health & Wellness Center. With the new support, the clinic will add a psychiatric nurse practitioner to implement exercise, nutrition and pain management education, peer support recovery programming to reach more people utilizing MAT services and new technology to improve recovery support and evaluation. Through this pilot program, AltaMed’s Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT), will provide patients with a multidisciplinary team approach to address the complicated disease of addiction.”Īn $85,000 grant to Marin City Health & Wellness Center in Marin City will support the creation of new programs and safe spaces for people in the Marin County community to start the process of recovery from substance abuse. “We’re proud to join CVS Health in its nationwide effort to expand access to opioid and substance abuse treatment to help the communities we serve recover and lead productive, healthy lives. “The opioid epidemic in our country has had far-reaching consequences that have destroyed lives, broken apart families and has had devastating effects on the communities we live in,” said Shawn Hamilton, MD, regional medical director at AltaMed Health Services. The support will help the clinic increase access to substance abuse services for over 11,000 adult patients in high need areas by the end of 2018. With the support of CVS Health, La Maestra is improving access to quality substance use disorder services in some of San Diego’s most underserved communities.”ĪltaMed Health Services in Los Angeles will use an $85,000 grant to implement a pilot that will help integrate medication assisted treatment (MAT) into its primary care services. Since 2015, La Maestra has increased SBIRT screening rates by 408%. “By fully implementing SBIRT at all primary care sites, there has been an increase in referrals to treatment. “Substance abuse services are vital to La Maestra patients because of the increasing need for services,” said Javier Rodriguez, MD, chief medical officer at La Maestra Family Clinic, Inc. The La Maestra Family Clinic in San Diego will use a nearly $85,000 grant to implement a SBIRT (screening, brief intervention, referral and treatment) approach for patients to increase the number of patients receiving medication-assisted treatment and group therapy. The $330,000 from the CVS Health Foundation is being distributed to four California community health centers focused on increasing access to opioid addiction treatment and recovery services. “We are also pleased to support the work of four community health centers here in California and their work to promote addiction recovery, which directly aligns with our purpose of helping people on their path to better health.” “Through the launch of our in-store safe medication disposal program at CVS Pharmacy locations in California, we aim to help remove unused prescription medications from medicine cabinets where they could be otherwise diverted or abused,” said Tom Davis, R.Ph., vice president of professional services for CVS Health. Concurrently, the company is expanding its safe medication disposal initiative in California, installing 62 safe medication disposal units in CVS Pharmacy locations across the state, including 1 in Ventura County, to help facilitate proper and timely disposal of opioids and other medications that could otherwise be diverted or misused. (Ventura County, Ca) Opioid Abuse in Ventura County is on the rise and CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) has announced that the CVS Health Foundation will award $330,000 in grants to community health centers in California focused on increasing access to opioid addiction treatment and recovery services.
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