Diamond Foundation executive director Jill Diamond says her family decided to help fund a new model of addictions care after her brother had difficulty accessing treatment
A private donation of $20-million aims to transform how addictions care is delivered in the Vancouver area by providing access to a range of recovery services in a single setting and integrating the currently fragmented approach to care.
The new Road to Recovery model at St. Paul’s Hospital is expected to offer acute stabilization, detox, short-term stays, inpatient recovery and outpatient recovery all in one location, while shaving weeks off wait lists. Seonaid Nolan, the co-creator of the Road to Recovery model. She is the medical director for Providence’s addiction program and a clinician scientist with the BC Centre on Substance Use.
Road to Recovery co-creator Cheyenne Johnson, who is executive director at the BCCSU, said a co-ordinated, accessible and seamless continuum of substance-use care was identified as a top need when the centre was established in 2017.
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