People with substance use disorders often suffer from multiple chronic illnesses.
Recently, more hospitals are finding that identifying and treating substance use disorders in high-risk patients reduces hospital readmissions, average lengths of inpatient stay, returns to ICU, and overall costs.
These innovative projects are often collaborations between community substance abuse and other behavioral health care providers and community hospitals.
The Expanding SBIRT to Hospitals learning collaborative http://hospitalsbirt.webs.com) offers free webinars the third Monday of each month. This month’s webinar features presentations on successful collaborations between substance abuse treatment and other behavioral health providers and hospitals.
January 21, 2:00-3:00, EST
Featured presenters:
Raymond V. Tamasi,
CEO, Gosnold on Cape Cod
“The Gosnold-Falmouth Hospital Collaboration Project”
Tom McLellan, University of Pennsylvania
Executive Director, Treatment Research Institute
“Incorporating substance abuse treatment and assessment in discharge planning for patients with diabetes”
For more information, visit hospitalsbirt.webs.com