Payers and providers play an important role in addressing the opioid crisis in our communities. This page highlights the most recently added resources specifically targeting healthcare providers, healthcare system employees, and individuals who manage private and public insurance plans. These resources, identified with blue tiles, include patient and provider education materials, clinical practice guidelines and practice protocols, and research and reports about insurance coverage and benefit design around addiction treatment and pain management.
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The Washington legislature directed the medical associations in the state to develop opioid prescribing guidelines for their professions by 2019. This 4 page document briefly explains the guidelines developed for advanced registered nurse practitioners. Funding Source: Washington State Department of Health
The Washington legislature required all 5 medical licensing boards to develop opioid prescribing guidelines by January 1, 2019. This 4 page document provides information for prescribers on jointly prescribing naloxone with opioid prescriptions and includes a summary of the prescribing guideline requirements on naloxone for nurses, dentists, allopathic physicians, osteopathic physicians, and podiatrists. Funding Source: Washington State Department of Health
This 2 page document provides a brief overview of the development of opioid prescribing guidelines in Washington state. In 2017, the legislature directed the state’s 5 health care prescribing boards and commissions (medical, dental, nursing, osteopathic, and podiatric) to adopt opioid prescribing guidelines. This document summarizes the guideline development process and compares the 5 guidelines
Project Nurture is an innovative treatment model for pregnant and parenting women with substance use disorder and their infants. An integrated care team provides prenatal, maternity, postpartum, and pediatric care to the women and their infants. This 2018 presentation explains the treatment model and presents brief findings from an evaluation of the program. Funding Source: Legacy Health Systems, Lifeworks NW, CODA, Inc., Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon DHS Child Welfare, Health Share of Oregon
A 2 page overview of Project Nurture, a Center of Excellence program that provides prenatal care, inpatient maternity care, and postpartum care for women with substance use disorder as well as pediatric care for their infants. The integrated delivery model includes physicians, certified alcohol and drug counselors and peer support specialists in the treatment team. The model has been adopted by multiple sites, some of which incorporate addiction treatment into a primary care clinic and some which incorporate maternity and pediatric care into an addiction treatment facility. This paper provides a brief summary of the Project Nurture evaluations which showed positive outcomes for Project Nurture participants compared to women with substance use disorder provided usual maternity care. Funding Source: Legacy Health Systems, Lifeworks NW, CODA, Inc., Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon DHS Child Welfare, Health Share of Oregon
A one page guide to Project Nurture, a Center of Excellence program that provides prenatal care, inpatient maternity care, and postpartum care for women with substance use disorder as well as pediatric care for their infants. The integrated delivery model includes physicians, certified alcohol and drug counselors and peer support specialists in the treatment team. The model has been adopted by multiple sites, some of which incorporate addiction treatment into a primary care clinic and some which incorporate maternity and pediatric care into an addiction treatment facility. Funding Source: Legacy Health Systems, Lifeworks NW, CODA, Inc., Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon DHS Child Welfare, Health Share of Oregon
A 2018 presentation on the Project Nurture model of providing integrated prenatal, maternity, postpartum, and pediatric care to women with substance use disorders and their infants. This presentation explains how the project came to be, describes characteristics of program participants, and provides results from a qualitative study of program participants. Funding Source: Legacy Health Systems, Lifeworks NW, CODA, Inc., Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon DHS Child Welfare, Health Share of Oregon
The Governor of Massachusetts created a medical education working group to develop new core competencies for medical student education in the state. The new competencies include training medical students in the prevention of substance use disorder (SUD), how to treat patients at risk for SUD, and how to manage SUD as a chronic disease. Funding Source: Office of the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
The Governor of Massachusetts created a dental education working group to develop new core competencies for dental education in the state. The new competencies include training dental students in prevention of substance use disorder (SUD), how to treat patients with SUD, and how to provide effective, safe pain care. Funding Source: Office of the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
This 2008 toolkit from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network explains the link between childhood trauma and adolescent substance use or mental health conditions and provides treatment recommendations for providers working with these patients. Funding Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration