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SI PPS Receives HRSA Grant To Support Workforce Transformation To Address the Opioid Crisis On Staten Island
With a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) through the Opioid Workforce Expansion Program (OWEP) Paraprofessionals program, SI PPS will train 240 behavioral health-related peer paraprofessionals during the three-year grant period Staten...
They’ve been there: Peers lead the way to recovery from opioid addiction
After a non-fatal opioid overdose, a patient’s first step toward recovery is more of a leap – equally colossal and terrifying. In Staten Island hospital emergency rooms, such patients have an empathetic hand to hold as they make that jump. Available 24 hours a day,...
[In The News] 44 percent drop in borough drug overdoses called ‘bright ray of hope’
Borough law enforcement and members of the health and recovery community announced a sharp decrease in the number of fatal and non-fatal overdoses on Staten Island this year. They’re calling the latest overdose data a “bright ray of hope.” “What we’re doing on Staten...
[In The News] Tracking Island drug abuse aimed at new intervention strategies and tackling OD epidemic
Through a partnership with MIT, the Staten Island Performing Provider System (SI PPS) hopes to create new treatment pathways for people with substance misuse disorder. SI PPS has shared its data with the MIT Sloan Initiative for Health System Innovation to create new...
In Case You Missed It: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Guideline for Prescribing Opioids
The CDC is raising awareness of the risk to patient health and safety due to misapplication of the Opioid Guideline for chronic pain. Please read the recent commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine, where authors of the 2016 CDC Guideline for Prescribing...
Mitigating a deadly crisis through innovation and integration
Joseph Conte PhD, Executive Director of Staten Island Performing Provider System, writes for Hospital Times on how the opioid phenomenon has evolved in the US and ways in which the challenge has been effectively met by an innovative provider system. "In the US today,...