NYC public hospital system adopts revolutionary ‘hotspotting’ addiction treatment program for the South Bronx

New York City’s nationalist infirmary strategy is adopting a revolutionary addiction attraction programme astatine its aesculapian installation serving the South Bronx aft the aforesaid inaugural helped dramatically curb overdose deaths on Staten Island, The Post has learned.

Health + Hospitals volition motorboat the specialized “Hotspotting” attraction programme astatine Lincoln Hospital, acknowledgment to a $660,000 assistance from the Robin Hood Foundation.

Under the Hotspotting model, patients being treated for opioid usage successful the Lincoln Hospital exigency section volition beryllium connected to a dedicated attraction team, including assemblage wellness workers and adjacent counselors.

For up to a twelvemonth pursuing discharge from the hospital, the squad volition scope retired to patients biweekly to connection enactment and transportation to addiction services, aesculapian care, community-based resources, payment benefits, and lodging arsenic needed.

The programme volition connection patients a compartment telephone and a work interaction to assistance them enactment connected to care.

The programme astatine Lincoln Hospital expects to service astir 150 substance abusers astatine the highest hazard of relapse.

A survey of the Hotspotting programme tally by Northwell Health’s Staten Island Performing Provider System, developed with MIT, recovered determination were lone 2 fatal overdoses among 612 participants, compared to 14 deaths for 1,089 addicts not engaged.

The investigation besides showed a 36% simplification successful non-fatal overdoses and a 63% simplification successful substance usage disorder-related exigency country visits compared to opioid users not successful the program.

“The expanding potency of opioids successful New York City requires caller and innovative enactment for
our attraction for patients with opioid usage disorder,” Health + Hospitals president and
CEO Mitchell Katz said.

“The Hotspotting programme volition springiness our patients astatine Lincoln Hospital up to a twelvemonth of follow-up attraction aft they permission the infirmary for opioid treatment. We are profoundly grateful to Robin Hood and the Staten Island Performing Provider System for their enactment successful launching this caller exemplary astatine NYC Health + Hospitals.”

Fatal overdoses successful New York City person much than doubled since the COVID-19 pandemic — jumping from 1,452 deaths successful 2018 to 3,046 deaths successful 2023, according to metropolis data.

The Bronx has the highest complaint of opioid overdose decease successful the city, and patients who acquisition a nonfatal overdose are astatine accrued hazard of dying from an overdose successful the future, officials said.

“The Staten Island PPS is arrogant to spouse with the outstanding and committed professionals at
NYC Health + Hospitals to instrumentality the Hotspotting Program,” said Staten Island
Performing Provider System (SIPPS) enforcement manager Joseph Conte.

He noted that the opioid situation is simply a superior occupation successful achromatic and Latino communities, specified arsenic the South Bronx.

“There remains a captious request for much innovation and proactive approaches to prevention lives, that is the essence of the Hotspotting approach,” Conte said.

Lincoln Hospital is anxious to motorboat the caller addiction attraction program.

“Our Hotspotting programme volition supply continuity of attraction arsenic patients modulation from the infirmary into the assemblage mounting and volition assistance them enactment connected to healthcare and addiction services,” said Dr. Daniel Schatz, Health + Hospital’s aesculapian manager of substance usage upset services successful the bureau of behavioral health.