About St. Elizabeth Healthcare – Edgewood
St. Elizabeth Healthcare Edgewood Hospital is a CARF accredited general medical hospital situated on Medical Village Drive in Edgewood, Kentucky. They’re one of several facilities under the St. Elizabeth Healthcare system providing compassionate care for communities across Northern Kentucky and Greater Cincinnati. They offer a broad range of medical services such as emergency care, surgical procedures and specialized treatments.
They can also provide integrated addiction recovery services for patients dealing with substance use disorders or related conditions. The facility is accessible via Interstate 275, which has direct route access to nearby Cincinnati and Covington. They all serve patients from Florence via the Interstate 75 corridor. TANK bus routes serve this location and link to Florence and Covington. The facility is right within the Medical Village Campus. This allows you to access other services as necessary for general wellbeing.
St. Elizabeth Healthcare Edgewood Hospital offers personalized and trauma-informed substance use care for individuals and families struggling with unhealthy alcohol/drug dependency. Their staff are uniquely trained and grounded in clinical best practices that guarantee the best recovery outcomes. They also partner with agencies to break barriers that may impede your pathway to recovery. They primarily offer medication assisted treatment or MAT for opioid use disorder. This technique uses meds approved by the FDA alongside counseling to help you achieve lasting abstinence.
They may offer a prescription of Suboxone, Sublocade or Vivitrol depending on your personalized care. These meds curb cravings and eliminate painful withdrawal symptoms when taken as prescribed. You’ll then attend group and individual therapy to address underlying psychological issues and build strong coping skills to prevent relapse.
Peer support specialists can provide guidance, encouragement and firsthand insight from their own recovery experiences. They can link you to self-help groups or meetings like MAT groups to help you build strong support networks for lasting healing. Case managers provide community-based support and linkage. They can help you access transitional housing options, employment opportunities and much more. They also assist with budgeting, insurance and transportation.
The broader recovery services here also include tailored career planning and employment readiness training via a specialized program called Lift Up project. This program helps you acquire life skills and educational experience needed to enhance your employability through partnership with the Life Learning Center or KY Career Center. They also take care of challenges like legal problems that may hinder your employability. The goal is to help you achieve your full potential as a productive community member.
St. Elizabeth Healthcare also supports pregnant women and new mothers in recovery via the Baby Steps Program. Their trained nurses and peer experts can help you find suitable treatment via this program. This may include an inpatient program to begin MAT for those over 24 weeks pregnant. They can link you to 12-step meetings for pregnant and parenting women in MAT.
They can also help you establish or continue OB care and provide educational support focusing on the risk of withdrawal to newborns alongside neonatal abstinence syndrome. It’s all about supporting you and your family as you navigate childbirth and recovery. St. Elizabeth Healthcare Edgewood Hospital can also provide crisis intervention as part of its emergency care services for people experiencing mental health and substance use crises. This focuses on helping you stabilize, assessing your needs and providing ongoing treatment.
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