April 28 2020 – Palm Beach County Medical Society (PBCMS) Services, the nonprofit arm of the society, has received a $300,000 three-year grant from the Health Council of Southeast Florida to continue to develop its Opioid Healthcare Response Initiative, which provides opioid education for physicians and other healthcare professionals.
“We are extremely concerned about the impact opioid addiction continues to have on our community,” said Tenna Wiles, CEO of PBCMS, “and are grateful to the Health Council’s support of this critical program as well as our advocacy on behalf of Palm Beach County physicians and patients.”
PBCMS Services, which provides and coordinates continuing medical education for physicians and allied health professionals, also works to inform and educate the public about health care issues. The organization strives to find ways to improve patient access to health care, and collects and studies information on the health care delivery system.
The overarching goal of the Opioid Healthcare Response program is to reduce opioid deaths in Palm Beach County through an evidenced-based comprehensive strategy that recognizes addiction as a medical illness. The key elements of the initiative are prevention, treatment, rescue and recovery, all tied to specific outcome metrics.
The Health Council of Southeast Florida (hcsef.org) is one of 11 private, local health planning councils that conducts regional health planning and implementation activities to meet critical health care needs in local communities. The Council supports a wide variety of programs, such as HIV education and prevention, health literacy and healthy living education.
For more information, visit https://www.pbcms.org/opioid-addiction-treatment-resources.
