Health On Wheels: Tricked-Out RVs Deliver Addiction Treatment To Rural Colorado

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As COVID-19 forced many addiction treatment clinics to scale back, Colorado brought its clinics on wheels to remote, underserved towns and used telehealth to connect patients with addiction doctors.

Patients also can drop used needles into a sharps container at the RV for disposal, but the staffers are not allowed to distribute clean needles. Some patients will talk with counselor Nicky McLean in a room just large enough to fit a table and two chairs.

"We hear too often that in rural Colorado and the mountain regions of Colorado they don't have the same access to services as the Denver metro and the Front Range regions," Werthwein says. The state secured a $10 million federal grant for the program. His team brought in health care providers, such as Front Range Clinic, to staff and operate the RVs.Once the RVs were ready, the staff had to be trained to drive them, which necessitated"a couple of repairs," Werthwein says.

Once the federal grant runs out in September 2022, Front Range Clinic and the other mobile unit operators will inherit and continue to operate the RVs — billing Medicaid and private insurance as they do now for the appointments.

 

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Colorado is good that way. Thank to them this old man abruptly HOMELESS Was treated WITH dignity

This is fantastic. Hopefully our country can overcome the catastrophic mismanagement of this virus with grassroots efforts like these. Thank you for putting this story out.

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I wonder how many deaths and overdoses resulted due to the shutdown.

Yeah the fucking RV with an internet connection and blood tests is super effective, just what someone who has been struggling with addiction for years needs. What a great solution. Is this article from the onion? I can't tell.

Send one to Trump Tower, NYC.

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