March 18, 2021 - 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

HAP Opioid LAN Northeast Regional Virtual Meeting

Location: Online

Registration Deadline: March 18, 2021

Overview

You are invited to the HAP Opioid LAN Year 2 Northeast regional networking meeting. We encourage you to share this invite with your peers and partners who work in primary care, such as internal medicine and family medicine, emergency medicine, pharmacy, and any other individuals caring for patients with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD). This meeting brings together regional stakeholders including hospitals, health systems, community-based organizations, and, single county authorities to address and discuss relevant regional-specific strategies to improve and better coordinate the care and treatment for patients with OUD. The event will begin with panelist presentations from peers to share their organizations care delivery approach, the services offered, and work flow that supports those services and will be followed by a facilitated group discussion with all attendees. We encourage you to come prepared with your relevant tools and processes and to share your organization’s work related to OUD patient care. Through this facilitated meeting, attendees will have the opportunity to learn from one another, discuss promising practices, and virtually network with regional peers.

Agenda

3/18/2021

11:00 AM

Welcome and Opening Remarks

11:10 AM

Understanding Primary Care & Access for Patients with OUD in Northeast PA
Panel Presentation

  • Nyann Biery, MS, Manager of Program Evaluation, Instructor, USF Morsani, Department of Family Medicine, Lehigh Valley Health Network
  • Lou C. Guzzi, CADC, Clinical Supervisor, Drug and Alcohol Treatment Service
  • Joelle Lauchner, DO, Internal Medicine Physician, Douglassville Tower Health Medical Group 

 

11:50 AM

Facilitated Regional Group Discussion
Attendee Group Discussion

  • Facilitator: Lee Radosh, MD, FAAFP, Addiction Medicine Medical Group, Medical Director, Center of Excellence for Opioid Use Disorder, Tower Health

Attendees are encouraged to come sharing their work, best practices, challenges, questions, and comments to this forum.

12:25 PM

Wrap up and Next Steps

Objectives

  • Share key priorities and considerations in caring for patients with OUD in primary care settings
  • Discuss the challenges and barriers in caring for OUD patients in primary care settings and learn about approaches being modeled across the region 
  • Identify opportunities to help patients with OUD effectively navigate between inpatient/ED to primary care or community-based treatment settings
  • Identify regional community partners and ways to connect with those partners

Registration Information

Although this webinar is complimentary, you must register to attend. 

If you have any questions, please contact HAP Education Services at 717-561-5270.

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