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May 22: Reducing Hospital Readmissions for Clients with Addictions
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Title: Reducing Hospital Readmissions for Clients with Addictions
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 2:00pm-3:30pm EDT
Speaker: Christopher Wilkins, CEO, Loyola Recovery Foundation, Inc.

Reducing hospital readmissions is top priority across stakeholders, requiring creative interventions to change the treatment journey for individuals with addictions. Loyola Recovery Foundation, Inc. in Pittsford, New York is a community based non-profit organization providing sub-specialty behavioral health, health management, housing, and employment services to Veterans. Hear first-hand from the Loyola Recovery Foundation CEO and learn more about the innovative program they implemented — the mPOWER Project.

Currently funded by SAMHSA, mPower provides mobile patient opportunities for wellness, empowerment, and recovery to an identified cohort of high risk/high need veterans between the ages of 18-55, who have a diagnosis of substance abuse along with multiple physical and psychiatric comorbidities. The specific goal of this project is to reduce the target population’s utilization of addiction crisis, emergency medical, and emergency psychiatric services through the use of technology-based interventions. To date, this project has resulted in a 192% decrease in readmission rates, from an average of 3.9 readmissions to an average of 0.3.

During this webinar, Christopher Wilkins, CEO of the Loyola Recovery Foundation will:

Review the treatment challenges in implementing a program like mPower
Discuss integrated re-hospitalization prevention strategies
Discuss what has worked, what hasn’t, and next step

This webinar is cosponsored with NORC and the N-ATTC.

Webinars How-tos

National Council LIVE webinars feature online presentations by experts on key topics in mental health and addictions.

Registration is required for each webinar. On registering, you will receive a confirmation email with webinar access information. Please register using the email of the person who will attend the webinar as the access information is unique and cannot be shared or forwarded. If multiple persons from your organization plan to attend the webinar from different computers, each of them is required to register separately.

At the time of the webinar, you will require Internet access to view the presentation on your computer monitor and listen to the presenters through your computer speakers. We recommend that you log in at least 15 minutes prior to event time. You may also dial into a phone line to access the audio. During the presentation, you can send in questions for the speaker using the dialog box on the right of your webinar window. If you prefer to ask your question verbally, click the "Raise Hand" feature on your window so we may unmute your phone line and allow you to speak.

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