CoPs provide a space to share perspectives, explore solutions, connect with peers, and take away practical insights you can use in your work.
The Hospital Systems Addiction Care CoP supports interdisciplinary hospital systems that identify, engage, treat, and coordinate services for people with substance use disorder (SUD). The CoP focuses on using reachable moments to improve patient-centered care and hospital outcomes through medication-assisted treatment, other evidence-informed interventions, and connections to SUD care and harm reduction supports after discharge.
CoP Schedule
There will be four HSAC CoP meetings offered between July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027
Upcoming meeting dates will be announced soon.
Featured Content
Unpacking 42 CFR Part 2 for Healthcare Leaders
Gain a clear understanding of 42 CFR Part 2 and its impact on healthcare delivery through this insightful prerecorded webinar led by legal expert Lucy Hodder, JD.
Designed for healthcare leaders, this session unpacks the confidentiality protections that govern substance use disorder (SUD) treatment records and explores how these regulations affect clinical practice. From legal foundations to real-world application, this training helps providers navigate compliance while honoring patient privacy and access to care.
Understand the key components of the GO-NORTH & CMS Rural Health Transformation Program.
Become familiar with the requirements of the GO-NORTH application.
Meet The Instructors
Travis Boucher, MBA
Vice President, Rural Health Transformation
Travis joined the Foundation for Healthy Communities in 2026 as the Vice President of Rural Health Transformation. In this role he provides strategic leadership, implementation oversight and public representation for FHC’s Rural Health Transformation Project, a multi-year, grant-funded initiative designed to strengthen rural health systems and improve population health outcomes across New Hampshire. With more than 15 years of leadership experience in finance, operations and organizational strategy, he leads program strategy, grant administration, financial and compliance oversight, staff leadership and external partnerships. Prior to joining FHC, Travis was the Chief Financial Officer/Chief Operating Officer at New Hampshire Public Radio. He has served as the Chief Financial Officer at Speare Memorial Hospital and at New Hampshire Hospital as well as the Director of Financial Policy & Reimbursement at the New Hampshire Hospital Association. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a B.S. in Health Management & Policy and a Minor in Business Administration and earned his Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Wagner College in New York.
Prerecorded CoP webinars, resources and additional tools
Webinars 2026
June 2026 Healthcare Update
June 25, 2026
Objectives:
Understand the new Board of Pharmacy rules allowing naloxone to be distributed directly from hospital emergency departments.
Gain context around the initiatives to implement a comprehensive retooling of the healthcare workforce in New Hampshire.
Become aware of new grant opportunities for hospitals approved by the Governor and Executive Council.
Instructors:
Kathy Bizarro-Thunberg Executive Vice President/Federal Relations, New Hampshire Hospital Association
Kathy Bizarro-Thunberg, Executive Vice President/Federal Relations, MBA, FACHE, has been with the New Hampshire Hospital Association (NHHA) since 1985. Kathy is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and served as the President of the Northern New England Association of Healthcare Executives, ACHE Regent for the State of New Hampshire, and as a Governor on the ACHE Board of Governors. At NHHA, Kathy works with NH’s congressional delegation and the American Hospital Association regarding legislation on the federal agenda that affects health care and hospitals. Her other responsibilities include supporting state advocacy efforts, health policy development, hospital financial reporting, data management, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), public health issues, and hospital emergency preparedness planning. Kathy also oversees the internal financial management of NHHA and the Foundation for Healthy Communities, an affiliate of NHHA. She has an associate of science degree in computer information systems from the New Hampshire Technical Institute (1985), a bachelor of science in health management and policy from the University of New Hampshire (1992) and an M.B.A. in Leadership through Franklin Pierce University (2008).
Maureen Znoj Senior Director of HealthForce NH, Foundation for Healthy Communities
Maureen Znoj serves as the Senior Director of HealthForce NH at the Foundation for Healthy Communities, where she leads strategic initiatives to address New Hampshire’s healthcare workforce challenges through innovative partnerships and cross-sector collaboration. With over 20 years of experience in workforce development, grant management, and building industry partnerships, she has consistently driven measurable outcomes in workforce advancement. Before joining the Foundation, she served as Associate Vice President of Academic & Student Affairs at River Valley Community College. Her previous roles include Director of Undergraduate Programs and Assistant Professor at Endicott College, as well as Acting President and Vice President of Operations for Mount Washington College. She continues to contribute to academia as adjunct faculty in M.B.A. and Organizational Leadership programs at Southern New Hampshire University. Dr. Znoj holds a Doctor of Arts in Leadership from Franklin Pierce University, a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in Educational Leadership and a Master of Education in Adult Learning & Leadership from Plymouth State University.
Dan Andrus Director of Substance Use Disorder Treatment Projects Foundation for Healthy Communities
Dan Andrus joined the Foundation for Healthy Communities as the director of substance use disorder treatment projects and works with health care systems in New Hampshire in primary care and emergency department settings to enhance their capability to provide effective treatment to patients. Dan came to the Foundation for Healthy Communities in March 2020 after a 40-year career in the fire and emergency services. He most recently served as the Fire Chief for the City of Concord for 11 years. Prior to that, he served for 29 years with the Salt Lake City (Utah) Fire Department as a firefighter, paramedic, company officer, public information officer, division chief for communications and emergency management, fire marshal, battalion chief, and deputy chief for administration. Dan has extensive experience in collaborative relations with community organizations and nonprofit agencies in improving health care for persons experiencing homelessness, mental illness, and substance use disorder, as well as in nonprofit governance for a home health care and hospice agency and a community health care center. Dan holds undergraduate degrees in business management and fire services administration from the University of Utah and Western Oregon State College, respectively, and master’s degrees in public administration and economics from the University of Utah.
Peer Recovery Support in the Lakes Region: A Successful and Enduring Partnership
April 16, 2026
Objectives:
Participants will understand the history of the partnership between Concord Hospital at Laconia and Navigating Recovery.
Participants will understand how the partnership works in practice to support persons receiving treatment.
Participants will understand the key elements of how to build sustainable peer support programs.
Instructors:
Corey Gately, MLADC
Corey Gately is Director of Substance Use Services at Concord Hospital – Laconia and Franklin. She oversees programs including The Doorway in Laconia and the Recovery Clinic, a Medication-Assisted Treatment program. Corey has extensive experience training hospital staff on medication induction in emergency departments, utilization of recovery coaches, stigma reduction, and expanding access to substance use disorder services.
Daisy Pierce, Ph.D.
Daisy Pierce is Executive Director of Navigating Recovery of the Lakes Region. She is a founding member of the organization and has helped grow it into a key community resource offering peer recovery support, wellness programming, and connections to treatment. Her work focuses on building bridges across systems and supporting individuals and families navigating recovery.Webinar Materials:Slidedeck
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Webinars 2025
Featured Speaker: Casey Bukowski
Casey Bukowski is a Healthcare Data Analyst with Dartmouth Health’s Department of Psychiatry. She brings nearly a decade of experience in population health project management, value-based care performance, and electronic medical record workflow design. Her work focuses on translating complex clinical and regulatory requirements into practical data systems, dashboards, and workflows that improve access, engagement, and compliance in hospital-based SUD and behavioral health programs.
Understanding the Medical Examiner’s Role in Substance Use Death Investigations
Kim Fallon began her career as a death investigator at the New Hampshire Office of Chief Medical Examiner in 1993 and she was the chief forensic investigator for the office from 2005 until her retirement in 2024. She was certified by the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators in 2009.
She has a bachelor of science degree in biology from Southern Connecticut State University and obtained a master’s degree in investigations from University of New Haven.
Prior to becoming the chief forensic investigator, she was the Bioterrorism Surveillance Coordinator at the NH Department of Health and Human Services from 2001 until 2005.
Continuing the Care: Recovery Community Organization Services Across New Hampshire
Objectives:
Describe the current landscape and role of Recovery Community Organizations (RCOs) in New Hampshire.
Explain how Harbor Care functions as a facilitating organization and supports the development and sustainability of RCOs in New Hampshire.
Identify key differences among RCOs in the state, including the range of programs and services they provide.
About the Presenter:
Elyssa Sage: Elyssa has been working in the substance use and recovery field for over 7 years. She is currently the Assistant Project Director for the Peer Recovery Support Services Facilitating Organization at Harbor Care. In this role, Elyssa is responsible for expanding quality peer recovery support services by supporting Recovery Community Organizations in New Hampshire. She helps with quality assurance and improvement measures by monitoring contract compliance, overseeing data integrity, reporting, and providing technical assistance and organizational coaching and training to Recovery Community Centers.
Prior to this, she worked for the City of Nashua, Department of Public Health and Community Services, to help develop the region’s continuum of care for substance use and facilitate stakeholder collaboration and integration to address identified gaps and barriers in addiction services. Elyssa has a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from Colby-Sawyer College and a Master’s in Public Administration from Clark University.
Homelessness & Substance Use in New Hampshire: Data, Dialogue & the Path Forward
• Learn about current data and efforts addressing homelessness and substance use in New Hampshire
• Participate in a conversation about the path forward amid challenging funding and care environments
About Your Instructors:
Jennifer Chisholm, LICSW, MLADC: Jennifer is the Executive Director of the New Hampshire Coalition to End Homelessness, where she leads the state’s efforts in research, education, and advocacy around homelessness. She authored the 2024 State of Homelessness in New Hampshire report and has worked extensively in direct services, particularly with individuals experiencing homelessness and co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. She brings over 20 years of experience in Manchester and is a longtime faculty member at the UNH Department of Social Work.
Andrew Warner: Andrew is the Director of Overdose Prevention for the City of Manchester. His background includes frontline street outreach, syringe service work, and leadership roles in harm reduction. He previously served at Better Life Partners and The Doorway at Granite Pathways. A founding member of Queen City Needle Exchange, Andrew brings deep expertise in overdose prevention, peer-based strategies, and systems-level collaboration.
Compassionate Conversations with People Who Use Substances: Every Interaction Matters April 2025
Description:
Objectives:
Explore the concept of the substance use continuum as a bio/psycho/social phenomenon and chronic health condition.
Recognize and debunk several myths about drugs and the people who use them.
Reframe language and terminology about addiction and substance use towards a non-stigmatizing, person-centered approach.
Review the evidence-based approach of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) and Motivational Interviewing (MI).
Detail specific harm reduction interventions that can be implemented in various healthcare settings to contribute to overall improved wellness.
About Your Instructor: Jason Lucey is a family nurse practitioner and assistant professor at the MGH Institute of Health professions in Boston, MA. He received the MGH Institute’s Nancy T. Watts Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2018.
He also practices clinically in urgent care settings in Dover, NH. Through his clinical work, Jason became interested in the undertreated health problem of substance use and is dedicated to improving the health and health care for people who use substances. His community work in NH has included early efforts to expand access to naloxone for overdose prevention as well as advocacy for syringe services. He is a founding member and sits on the board of the New Hampshire Harm Reduction Coalition.
He sat as a representative for the NH Nurse Practitioner Association on the legislative commission studying syringe services prior to passage of the law that legalized syringe service programs in NH. In his faculty role, Jason is committed to helping students develop skills to address the common but complex health condition of substance use. He has led efforts to adapt and improve the curriculum to ensure that students receive robust content covering harm reduction, substance use disorder, and safe opioid prescribing.
Jason hopes to expand the use of evidence-based approaches like harm reduction strategies and pharmacotherapy for substance use disorder. Jason desires to train healthcare providers to consistently provide a compassionate approach to people who use substances.
What’s New at the New Hampshire Harm Reduction Coalition February 2024
Description:
Objectives:
Participants will understand the educational services offered by the NHHRC, particularly those that pertain to hospitals and healthcare settings.
Participants will understand how to obtain educational services for staff and patients.
Description: Liz’s presentation will showcase how harm reduction programs not only support individuals but also improve the overall public health of the state. She will highlight the NH Harm Reduction Coalition’s outreach programs and initiatives that positively impact public health across New Hampshire.
Liz will discuss NHHRC’s core values, including ending the overdose epidemic, reducing disease transmission, and meeting people where they are, while promoting acceptance within mainstream services.
About Your Instructor: Liz Beaule is the Director of Education for the NH Harm Reduction Coalition. She is an individual with lived and living experience in drug use and recovery. In her role, she teaches individuals and organizations evidence-based drug education, incorporating participant experiences and needs into her curriculum. She also has extensive experience working with individuals facing homelessness and co-occurring disorders, and previously worked in substance use treatment, peer support, and activism.
The 42 CFR Part 2 (“Part 2”) regulations protect the confidentiality of substance use disorder (SUD) treatment records. Part 2 protects “records of the identity, diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment of any patient which are maintained in connection with the performance of any program or activity relating to substance abuse education prevention, training, treatment, rehabilitation, or research, which is conducted, regulated, or directly or indirectly assisted by any department or agency of the United States.” Confidentiality protections help address concerns that discrimination and fear of prosecution deter people from entering treatment for SUD.
Objectives:
Participants will understand the requirements of 42 CFR Part 2. Participants will learn how to apply the requirements of 42 CFR Part 2 in clinical practice.
About Your Instructor:
Lucy Hodder, JD, directs the health law program and is a distinguished visiting professor of law at UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law as well as an ongoing consultant in health law and policy at the UNH College of Health and Human Services (CHHS), Institute for Health Policy and Practice (IHPP). Lucy is the founding director of the Health Law and Policy Programs at the law school and IHPP.
Lucy is an experienced regulatory attorney of over 30 years. Prior to academia, Lucy served as Legal Counsel to New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan and her Senior Health Policy Adviser, working with the Governor on initiatives to expand access to health, mental health and substance use disorder coverage and services. Lucy was a shareholder at Rath, Young and Pignatelli, P.C, and Chair of the firm’s Healthcare Practice Group for many years after serving as an Assistant Attorney General for the NH Department of Justice. Lucy began her career as an associate at Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison in San Francisco. She clerked for Martin L.C. Feldman, United States District Court, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Webinar: Services for SUDs: New Hampshire Managed Care Organizations and Behavioral Health Support October 17th, 2024
We recognize the critical role that New Hampshire Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) play in addressing the complexities of behavioral health and substance use disorder support.
Hear how MCOs help their patients struggling with SUD by partnering and providing effective interventions that lead to measurable improvements in health outcomes.
Webinar: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Sleep Disorders June 20, 2024
Persons with substance use disorder frequently experience sleep disorders and other somatic complaints. The practice of prescribing additional medications often complicates treatment. Several effective, nonpharmacologic alternatives exist. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) offers several tools for addressing sleep problems. Carol Furlong retired from the Elliot Health System in December of 2023 after a distinguished career in the NH healthcare system advancing the treatment of substance use disorder. She continues to consult for a number of organizations and associations to share her expertise and promote compassionate patient-centered care.
Objectives:
Participants will understand the value of CBT in treating persons with substance use disorder.
Participants will understand specific techniques for addressing sleep disorders in persons with substance use disorder.
Participants will experience the effects of a progressive muscle relaxation exercise.
Webinar: State and Community Resources for SUD Care April 18, 2024
Participants will understand how to access naloxone for patients at risk of opioid overdose from and ED perspective and learn about post-ED discharge services available through Doorways, the harm reduction coalition, recovery community organizations, and public health networks.
Webinar: Engaging Communities in Caring for Persons with SUD: The Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital Story February 15, 2024
Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital has been engaged in a multiyear effort to improve SUD treatment that involves both hospital staff and community members.
Participants will: 1. Increase their understanding of the challenges of provide care for persons with substance use disorder in rural settings. 2. Understand the benefits of engaging stakeholders outside of the hospital system in addressing SUD. 3. Understand the process for making community connections to strengthen the support network for person for SUD.
Webinar Recording
Webinars 2023
Webinar: The Lived Experience Advisory Panel: A Resource for Health Care December 21, 2023
Increase your understanding of the value of lived experience in improving the treatment of persons with substance use disorder, the composition and function of the Lived Experience Advisory Panel, and the potential role and value of the Lived Experience Advisory Panel in improving the treatment of persons with substance use disorder in your own hospital. Webinar Recording
Webinar: Caring for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder in the Emergency Department: Seeking Feedback Buy-in October 19, 2023
Members of the staff of the Foundation from Healthy Communities will provide the background, objectives, and proposed resources for a statewide effort to provide effective care for persons presenting in the ED with opioid-related issues. This will be an interactive discussion with room for participants to contribute their ideas on ways to make the initiative more effective. Webinar Recording
Webinar: Lessons Learned in the Emergency Department – A Nurse’s Perspective August 17, 2023
Click on the image to view video Kelsey Allard, RN, BS, GC-HCM is the ED Behavioral Health and Substance Use Nurse at Valley Regional Hospital in Claremont, NH. Kelsey has 10 years of experience in nursing practice and holds degrees in psychology, human services, and healthcare management and is pursuing her Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner credential. Kelsey is deeply committed to improving patient outcomes for vulnerable populations, promoting the power of healing through the elimination of stigma and personal bias, and advocating for human dignity in healthcare.
This CoP helps hospital-based administrators, healthcare providers, and other practitioners implement systemic and effective approaches that address the substance use disorder needs of patients and enhance patient and hospital outcomes.
Webinar: Peer Recovery Support Systems: Making it Work in NH Hospitals June 15, 2023
Click on the image to view video This Community of Practice focuses on the benefits and challenges of implementing peer recovery support systems in hospitals.Panel of experts: 1. Monica Percy Edgar, APRN, MLADC, Director of Substance Use Services, Concord Hospital 2. Beau, Peer Recovery Support Worker, Concord Hospital 3. Corey E. Gately, MLADC, Director of Substance Use Services, Concord Hospital-Laconia and Franklin 4. Carol Furlong, MAC, LCMHC, MBA, Strategic Planning Consultant, Elliot Hospital, Southern NH Health 5. Cheri Bryer, Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital Webinar: The Substance Use Response Team Toolkit: Building Blocks for Organizational Change April 20, 2023 Click on the image to view the video Featuring presenters: Kellie Mueller, M.Ed., Assistant Vice President, Behavioral Health Services, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Peter Fifield, Ed.D., MLADC, LCMHC, Manager of Substance Use Disorder Program and Integrated Behavioral Health Program, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital
Learn about the development and implementation of a plan to change system culture regarding the care of patients with substance use disorder (SUD.) Participants will gain an understanding of: 1.) The pathway that one hospital took to create a culture that supports treatment for SUDs. 2.) The components of the developmental program for team members to achieve various levels of expertise in SUD care.
Webinar: Making Inductions, Making Connections: How a Critical Access Hospital Implemented a Successful SUD Treatment Program February 16, 2023
Click on the image to view video Featuring presenters: Brian Lombardo, M.D., Medical Director Primary Care Group Karry L. Smardon (she/hers), M.Hlth.Comm., Social Worker, Recovery Coach, Primary Care Multi-Specialty Clinic Colin Skinner, M.B.A., LSSBB, Director, Business Planning and Strategy, Multi-Specialty Clinic Lauren M. Senn, Practice Director, Multi-Specialty Clinic Shelley Friedman, RN, M.S.N., M.B.A., CNML, Clinical Manager, Primary Care, Women’s Care, Sleep Health & Integrative Medicine Casey Kelly (she, her, hers), M.A., LCMHC, NCC, Behavioral Health Care Manager, Primary Care
Webinars 2022
Webinar: Treating SUD in Patients who are New Americans December 15, 2022 Learn more about the care and treatment of persons with SUD who have lived experience as immigrants or refugees.
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Tara Davis-Thompson M.S., LCMHC, MLADC, has worked in Integrated Behavioral Health Clinician at the Concord Hospital Family Health Center since 2016. During this time, she has provided SUD treatment to refugee patients who receive their primary care at FHC. She has also facilitated community education workshops for refugee community leaders and refugees about alcohol use disorders, with particular focus on culturally effective assessment and interventions. Tara learns from the patients she serves and from community leaders about the best ways to provide therapeutic support and education regarding SUDs and mental health. Tara adapts her approach as needed as she continues to serve populations who arrive from different parts of the world.
Emily Bogle, B.S.N., has worked as a nurse for over 20 years. She has worked in a variety of settings including inner city hospitals, small rural hospitals, and community health. She spent 6 years working as a community health nurse in rural Uganda and East Africa. Emily has been the Refugee Nurse Care Coordinator at the Concord Hospital Family Health Center for the past 3 years. She is passionate about her work and a huge asset to the Family Health Center working with the refugee community. Webinar slides
Webinar: Motivational Interviewing: Tips and Tools for Talking Change with Patients November 17, 2022 Peter Fifield, Ed.D., MLADC, LCMHC is the Manager of the Substance Use Disorder and Integrated Behavioral Health Services at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, NH and an adjunct faculty member at the University of New England. He has a doctoral degree from the University of New England and is dual licensed in NH as a clinical mental health counselor and a master licensed alcohol and drug counselor. Peter has been a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers since 2011 and specializes in training for mental health and medical providers. He finds great satisfaction working with groups who are seeking to provide more supportive, equitable and effective care to clients. For over twenty years he has been working in the field of trauma informed integrated behavioral health and the treatment of co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Webinar Recording Webinar slides
Webinar: The New Hampshire Harm Reduction Coalition: Saving Lives, Supporting Recovery October 20, 2022 Lauren McGinley, Executive Director of the New Hampshire Harm Reduction Coalition presented on the effectiveness of harm reduction practies and services in New Hampshire, how these services can support recovery efforts for hospital patients and how NHHRC’s work can support SUD patients. Webinar recording Webinar slides
Webinar: Levels of Care: Getting our Patients with SUD to the Right Place September 15, 2022 Carol Furlong, M.B.A., LCMHC, MAC, Substance Use Disorder Services, with Elliot Hospital presented about the levels of care and how patients are triaged to the appropriate level of care for the most effective treatment. Webinar recording Webinar slides
Webinar: Eradicating Stigma: Perspectives from the Front Lines June 14, 2022 Elliot Hospital is changing its culture to support those with a substance use disorder (SUD) and address stigmatizing language, beliefs, and behaviors that prevent those with an SUD from seeking hospital care. Participants exchanged ideas on the strategies they are using within their own hospitals to reduce and prevent stigma. Webinar recording Webinar slides Words Matter
Webinar: The Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder April 21, 2022 John Brooklyn, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, Medicine and Psychiatry, UVM Larner College of Medicine presented on the many facets of risky alcohol use and its treatment. Alcohol use claims approximately 95,000 lives annually in the United States and New Hampshire has a very high rate of alcohol sales, making this a major public health problem. Dr. Brooklyn answered questions following his presentation and participants were encouraged to share their own experiences with persons with an alcohol use disorder. Webinar Recording
Webinars 2021
Webinar: Redefining Success in Patient Care December 16, 2021
Healthcare professionals may be challenged when caring for patients struggling with the chronic disease addiction who are not yet focused on recovery. Embracing harm reduction as a positive step toward recovery, can assist the practitioner in feeling more successful in caring for their patient. Kerry Nolte, PhD, FNP-C explores how harm reduction principles can be applied to patient centered care and presents insights into what is entailed in “successful” patient care. Participants engaged in discussion with peers about how to support patients with a substance use disorder in their own pathway to wellness. Webinar Recording Presentation Slides
Webinar: Champions for Change: Shifting Hospital Culture October 21, 2021 Participants learned how Kellie Mueller and Peter Fifield developed an interdisciplinary Substance Use Resource Team (SURT) of “Champions” across Wentworth-Douglass hospital system that has improved nursing confidence in caring for patients with an substance use disorder. Webinar Recording
Webinar: Addictions Care in Action August 19, 2021 Participants learned how New Hampshire hospitals are implementing systemic and effective approaches that address the substance use disorder (SUD) needs of patients and enhance patient and hospital outcomes. Featured presenters provided an overview of their approach including key partners they’ve engaged, what’s worked, and lessons learned in creating a hospital culture that is supportive of those struggling with the chronic disease of addiction.
Webinar: Through the Eyes of the Patient June 17, 2021 Individuals who have struggled with the chronic disease of addiction talk about their affirming – as well as less positive – hospital experiences. Understand the needs and realities of those who walk through your hospital doors. Learn how to apply the insights gained and tools used during this meeting to enhance hospital-based addictions care.
Webinar: HSAC CoP Kick Off Meeting: Improving Patient and Hospital Outcomes through Hospital-based Systems of Care – February 11, 2021
The Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT) program at Oregon Health & Science University is an interprofessional hospital-based addictions team that addresses the whole-person needs of patients with SUD who present with medical and surgical complications of addiction. Studies show this nationally-recognized program is associated with improved patient and provider experience, improved post-hospital SUD treatment engagement, and decreased healthcare costs. Dr. Englander, IMPACT Director, provided an overview of the program, highlighted evaluation findings, answered questions, and discussed with attendees how hospital-based addiction care can improve patient and hospital outcomes in New Hampshire.
Medication Assisted Treatment Crosswalk: This crosswalk was created by the UNH Institute for Health Policy and Practice, Citizens Health Initiative and the NH Center for Excellence to identify similarities and differences in medication assisted treatment (MAT) best practice recommendations through cross reference of the NH MAT Guidance Document and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) 63.Other Resources & Tools
Emergency Regulations: COVID 19 & SUD (Dr. Molly Rossignol; James Potter, NH Medical Society; Dr. Jacob Crothers, Groups Recover Together; Dr. David De Gisjel, Better Life Partners)
Practice Perspective: Case Discussion (Dana O’Shea, Kristin Makara, Annmarie Parmenter – Center for Recovery Management at Nashua; Jennifer Hagan – Weeks Medical Center)
Presentation & Discussion: Bringing the Team Together: Academic Detailing, Addiction and Recovery Training, and Care Coordination from NH Hospital Practices – December 13, 2018
Objectives:
