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SBIRT in Hospitals: It Can Be Done

 

May20by iretablog

IRETA staff member Dr. Dawn Lindsay shares a manifesto and model project

In early April, I had the opportunity to travel to Newark, Delaware to attend “Addressing Substance Use in the Hospital: Building Bridges to Community Treatment.” I always enjoy conferences (they bring me back to my academic roots) and no matter how many I attend, I never fail to learn something new.

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Project Engage: A Model

Project Engage brings SBIRT to two Wilmington, DE hospitals

From Dr. Broyles’s perspective, Project Engage is a great working example of “how substance use can be addressed in the inpatient setting and how the provider can then follow the patient through to the community.”
Launched at Wilmington Hospital and now expanded to Christiana Care, Project Engage embeds an outreach coordinator with intervention expertise full-time in the hospital.  The coordinator counsels patients with substance abuse problems at their bedside and encourages them to go directly into treatment when they leave the hospital. In this way, Project Engage offers patients help when they need it most and provides a clear pathway directly to treatment.  Staff even go so far as to offer patients bus passes or rides to treatment facilities.

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