The project establishes a population health approach for identifying and managing patients with potential opioid use disorder. The program will assist health centers with developing workflows to create patient registries and team-based approaches to management.
Goal
This project utilizes training, technical assistance, and population health strategies to reduce the rate of opioid prescriptions for patients of CHP member clinics in Santa Clara County.
Population served
Opioid prescribed patients of CHP member clinics in Santa Clara County.
Timeline
July 2018 – June 2020
Funders
Kaiser Permanente
Partners
- Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System (SCVHHS)
- Santa Cara County’s Substance Use Treatment Services (SUTS)
- Medication Assisted Treatment and Team Training in Rural Colorado (IT MATTTRs Colorado)
- Santa Clara Family Health Plan (SCFHP)
- Santa Clara County Opioid Overdose Prevention Project (SCCOOPP)
- Redwood Community Health Coalition (RCHC)
- AACI
- Gardner Health Services
- Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley
- MayView Community Health Center
- North East Medical Services
- Planned Parenthood Mar Monte
- Ravenswood Family Health Center
- School Health Center of Santa Clara County
Data
- 2018 Data: 1,764 prescriptions, 480 unduplicated patients with prescriptions, and an estimated 131 high-risk patients
- California Opioid Overdose Serveillance Dashboard
- County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
Resources
Sample Safe Letter from ED to Patient (English)
Sample Safe Letter from ED to Patient (Spanish)
Sample Safe Letter from PCP to Patient (English)
Sample Safe Letter from PCP to Patient (Spanish)
Sample Safe Medicine Prescribing in Emergency Departments (English)
Sample Safe Medicine Prescribing in Emergency Departments (Spanish)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
IT MATTTRs
1-year retention and social function after buprenorphine-assisted relapse prevention treatment
A Patient’s Guide to Starting Buprenorphine
Office Induction Protocol for Practice
Unobserved-Home Induction Clinic Protocol
Unobserved-Home Induction Patient Guide
TPMG Opioid Training Modules
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) – MAT Expansion Project
American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM)
California Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM)
California Health Care Foundation (CHCF)
California Opioid Safety Network
Center for Care Innovations (CCI)
Redwood Community Health Coalition (RCHC)
Santa Clara County Addiction Medicine & Therapy (AM&T) Clinic List