SCRANTON — Geisinger has opened a medication-assisted treatment (MAT) clinic for opioid and alcohol use disorders at 3 W. Olive St., its fourth MAT clinic in Pennsylvania.

The new MAT clinic expands Geisinger’s comprehensive addiction medicine services, caring for patients with all substance use disorders.

• The addiction medicine department employs seven board-certified and fellowship-trained addiction medicine physicians and eight specialty-trained advanced practice providers.

• Geisinger offers inpatient hospital consult services for patients with substance use disorders at both Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre and Geisinger Community Medical Center in Scranton. These services have demonstrated a 50 percent reduction in hospital readmissions among more than 400 consulted patients.

• The department has partnered with Geisinger’s women’s health services to develop a specialty addiction treatment program focused on mothers with opioid use disorders, which now operates at four system locations.

• Geisinger has implemented a systemwide “warm handoff” program in all nine of its emergency departments to ensure that patients with an opioid use disorder have timely access to treatment resources in their communities.

To reach the MAT clinic in Scranton, call 570-207-6299. For more information on opioid abuse and available resources, visit GeisingerHealthPlan.com/HadEnough.

An open house at the Scranton MAT clinic will be held Friday, May 10. The media will be invited to attend. More information will be sent later this month.

Geisinger has opened a medication-assisted treatment (MAT) clinic for opioid and alcohol use disorders at 3 W. Olive St. in Scranton, its fourth MAT clinic in Pennsylvania.
https://www.theabingtonjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/web1_Geisinger-MAT-Clinic-Scranton-exterior.jpg.optimal.jpgGeisinger has opened a medication-assisted treatment (MAT) clinic for opioid and alcohol use disorders at 3 W. Olive St. in Scranton, its fourth MAT clinic in Pennsylvania. Submitted photo