2 years after releasing the Addiction Alliance of Georgia, partners Emory Healthcare and the Hazelden Betty Ford Structure are commemorating the main opening today of the Emory Addiction Center. An official ribbon cutting event was held on Oct. 26.
Enabled by nearly $10 million in contributions from public and personal community partners, the center advances the Addiction Alliance of Georgia’s objective of challenging the state’s addiction and overdose epidemic through addiction- associated clinical care, education and research study.
The new Emory Addiction Center sits on the school of Emory University Hospital at Wesley Woods (1821 Clifton Rd). It provides outpatient and intensive-outpatient addiction treatment and co-occurring mental health care for teenagers and grownups. The center invited its very first patients on June 27 throughout a soft opening stage.
” We are so grateful to all of the structures and people who made the vision of opening this new treatment center a truth. Their kindness will help conserve and modification lives in this time of significant requirement and for years to come,” stated Justine Welsh, MD, medical director of the Addiction Alliance of Georgia and associate teacher in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine.
Emory Addiction Center is run by leading U.S. health system Emory Healthcare, with management, training and operations support from Hazelden Betty Ford, the country’s leading not-for-profit devoted to people, households and communities impacted by substance use disorders.
The new center’s multidisciplinary treatment group consists of board-certified addiction psychiatrists, kid psychiatrists, addiction therapists and psychologists. Its outpatient services– offered both essentially and in- individual– consist of individual and group therapy along with medication-assisted treatments and family assistance. Patients will be referred to Hazelden Betty Ford’s national system of care and other treatment centers whenever a greater, residential level of care is required.
” Opening a new outpatient treatment center is a substantial turning point in our multi-phased, collective plan to help lower rates of substance use disorder and enhance rates of recovery throughout Georgia,” stated Stephen Delisi, MD, medical director for Hazelden Betty Ford’s Business Solutions department and assistant accessory professor at the Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School of Addiction Research Studies. “As we commemorate and continue to engage in other efforts throughout the state, we’re thrilled to start looking ahead to longer-range plans, too.”
Hazelden Betty Ford and Emory Healthcare formed the Addiction Alliance of Georgia in 2020 as a community- based, collective business that incorporates addiction and mental health care, prevention, research study and academic efforts, and engages partners in a continual effort to lower the unfavorable effect of addiction and increase the favorable effectof recovery in Georgia communities In addition to opening the new treatment center, the Alliance has actually been, and continues to be, engaged in a number of education, outreach and research study efforts, consisting of:
- Grady Hospital Cooperation: With assistance from a $350,000 grant from the John and Polly Stimulates Structure, the Alliance is working with the Grady Health System and other community partners, consisting of the Georgia Council on Drug Abuse, to incorporate extra substance use disorder services into Grady’s primary care centers.
- DBHDD Cooperation: Thanks to a $1.5 million federal government grant, the Alliance partnered with the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health & & Developmental Impairments to plan 2 years of virtual community- broad occasions and workshops for Social Work Boards, intended at lowering preconception and preparing community partners for medication-assisted treatment services–and likewise is partnering with DBHDD to provide immersive academic experiences for medical, nursing and public health trainees.
- CDC Cooperation: The Alliance worked with the Centers for Illness Control and Prevention to provide material and subject know-how for online micro-learning training modules, an addiction medicine toolkit, and an academic webinar series.
- Capstone Program: The Alliance established and provided an Emory School of Medicine Capstone on addiction and opioid use disorder in the medical setting for fourth-year medical trainees, and plans to broaden the capstone to other medical schools also.
- Peachtree Road United Methodist Church (PRUMC) Cooperation:.
- In August 2021, Hazelden Betty Ford Vice President William C. Moyers shared his individual story of recovery at a big community education occasion held at PRUMC in Atlanta and took part in numerous associated media chances to emphasize efforts by Georgia’s faith community to challenge the state’s–and country’s–addiction and mental health crisis
- An October 2022 community occasion at PRUMC included a panel of addiction recovery professionals, consisting of the Alliance’s medical director, Dr. Justine Welsh. The panel was led by the Georgia Council on Drug Abuse.
- Trainee Education:.
- The Alliance granted complete scholarships to trainees from 4 of Georgia’s 5 medical schools– Morehouse School of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and Emory University School of Medicine–to go to Hazelden Betty Ford’s immersive 5-day Professionals in House and Summertime Institute for Medical Trainees programs.
- Using Hazelden Betty Ford’s immersion program design and financing from DBHDD, the Alliance likewise established a weeklong Community-Based Immersion Healthcare Education Program and is training trainees from Emory’s School of Medicine, School of Nursing and Rollins School of PublicHealth Conversations are now in progress to broaden the program to M.D. and Ph.D. trainees at the Morehouse School of Medicine and Georgia State University.
About the Addiction Alliance of Georgia
Using the experience and strengths of 2 national health care leaders, Emory Healthcare and the Hazelden Betty Ford Structure, the Addiction Alliance of Georgia is a detailed collaboration committed to lowering substance-use-disorder rates; enhancing recovery rates; and bringing hope, recovery and health to more people and households throughout Georgia and beyond. Established in 2020, the Alliance incorporates addiction treatment and co-occurring mental health care, education, prevention, outreach and research study, teaming up with federal government firms, worried donors and partners throughout the bigger community.