Alberta Health Services – Calgary Zone
General Information
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Service Type
Addiction Recovery and Community Health
Program
The Addiction Recovery and Community Health Team strives to improve health outcomes and health care access for patients with substance use disorders. This team delivers specialty consult services to emergency department patients and hospital inpatients. This team also provides patient-centered, evidence-based, and trauma-informed care. By using a coordinated, multidisciplinary approach, the team supports patients at every step in their recovery journey., ,
The ARCH ( Addiction Recovery and Community Health ) Team, works with a patient"s care team in the emergency department ( ED ) or inpatient setting, and assists with:
complex withdrawal management
treatment and recovery planning
counselling, peer and psychosocial supports
overdose prevention
referrals to wraparound addiction recovery supports
linkage to primary and community-based care
connections to housing, healthcare coverage, income supports and identification
other health promotion interventions
, , Key Provider: addiction counsellors, doctors, educational coordinators, evaluation consultants, nurse practitioners (NPs), peer support workers, registered nurses (RNs), social workers