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Gateway's Hospital Bridge Podcast
The Gateway Hospital Bridge Podcast will provide podcast listeners a focused conversation on improving hospital bridge programs, data sharing, linkage to care, and retention of services to hospitals staff, peer support specialist and behavioral health providers. This podcast is made possible through the Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) grant.
Gateway Community Services, Inc. is supported by the Florida Department of Children and Families, LSF Health Systems, the City of Jacksonville, the CDC, CARF International, the NIDA Clinical Trials Network, the Florida Blue Foundation, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Gateway's Hospital Bridge Podcast
Project Save Lives: Hospital-Based Peer Program Overview
Project Save Lives is a collaborative, citywide, substance use disorder and co-occurring program, based in six (6) emergency departments across the city of Jacksonville. A comprehensive approach to engage overdose survivors and substance abusing and co-occurring patients being medically stabilized in local emergency departments employing Peer Support Specialists (PSS) to assist in transitioning immediately into a treatment setting.
This city-wide partnership creates a seamless, innovative, collaborative, stabilization and treatment solution. Participants are identified as they enter the emergency room by hospital staff and peer support specialists (individuals who have battled and survived addiction and co-occurring challenges themselves) to help these patients begin their journey to wellness and recovery.