Peer Healthcare Collaborations
Recovery United partners with four major healthcare systems throughout southeast Michigan. Ascension-St. John Macomb, Ascension-St. John Moross, Henry Ford Macomb, and McLaren Macomb hospitals embed peer recovery coaches within their emergency department to provide assessments to people presenting because of substance use.
Upon screening, if an individual meets the threshold for services, a peer recovery coach will work to connect the individual to the appropriate community-based or treatment-related services. This model allows an individual to address their substance use, even when they are not actively seeking an intervention or treatment for their substance use. Since program inception in 2017, hospital peers have served over 5000 individuals.
Deb Garrett
Person in Long-Term Recovery
Beaumont’s Family Medicine Center collaborates with Recovery United to ensure a person’s health care is optimally coordinated within the primary care setting by engaging qualifying individuals with medication-assisted treatment (MAT). Similarly, through the Michigan Opioid Partnership,Recovery United supported Beaumont Royal Oak’s introduction of MAT within the hospital setting to ensure the therapies’ use is continued post-discharge, as the individual is transitioned into a community-based program. Peers facilitate the coordination of care in both of these initiatives, working on a multi-disciplinary team to promote positive patient outcomes.
