Addiction Recovery and Community Health (ARCH)

The Addiction Recovery and Community Health (ARCH) 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 at the Royal Alexandra Hospital. 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 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, social workers