Goal 4: Increase Access to Quality Treatment
INCREASE ACCESS TO QUALITY TREATMENT FROM ANY ENTRY POINT IN THE SYSTEM.
- Treated 5,309 patients with a Behavioral Health issue in St. Elizabeth Emergency Departments, a slight increase over 2022 (5,079). The age group most often served remains 31-40 for both Mental Health and SUD.
Transferred 2,177 patients to SUN, 322 to Urgent Care, 633 to other psychiatric hospitals, 98 to Good Sam, 217 to other hospitals, 16 to Children’s, and 57 were discharged home.
- Treated 1,789 patients with SUD, with 1,195 treated for overdose.
- Provided behavioral health outpatient services both virtually and in person to patients across the lifespan, averaging 204-215 patients per day and 105 new patient evaluations per week, with an 8.44% no show rate. Staff include 25 prescribers, 12 therapists, 7 providers at SUN, and 4 providers at SEHC inpatient consultations.
- Convened a mental health summit that attracted nearly 200 professionals across the region and coordinated three follow-up workgroups to address the unique needs of youth, adult, and geriatric populations.
Received a $439,244 from the KY Opioid Commission to work with the regional Project CARES initiative. This funding enables us to build on the work of the KY KORE/BRIDGE program already in place. These two funding streams will provide sufficient staff to identify and follow patients with a substance use diagnosis from any entry point in the healthcare system including the high volume of patients in primary care. RN Liaisons now available to help patients navigate their pathway to recovery.
- Cared for 117 patients requiring IV Antibiotics for their SUD related medical need. These patients required inpatient hospitalization for a length of 7 days to 6-8 weeks. 75% of these patients successfully completed their medical course and participated in medical and addiction care to varying degrees. Additionally, Journey Recovery Center provided services to 80% of our IV Antibiotic SUD patients. We maintained an average daily census of 9.18 throughout 2023, meaning we treated on average over 9 patients daily on our unit with SUD. We engage patients with therapy services twice per week, addiction medicine physician consults twice per week, peer support services twice per week, and group therapy twice per week. To grow and expand the availability to serve this patient population further, and offer additional resources, programming, and services to them during their inpatient hospitalization, we are expanding our unit in 2024 on 7D.
Continued the efforts of Baby Steps and NICU staff to reduce the incidence of babies born in withdrawal. Of the 4,419 live births in Edgewood and Dearborn hospitals, 100 babies were found to be opiate exposed, and eleven (11) babies required treatment for their opioid withdrawal. Baby Steps had 489 referrals from NKY and Dearborn with 202 patients served.
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