Monthly Archives: March 2021
Community Report
Opioid Treatment Program in Yakima Expands Wraparound Services with New Suboxone Treatment Option
Mar
In November 2020, Comprehensive Healthcare’s Yakima-based Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) began offering a new medication option intended to chemically break the chain of addiction: suboxone treatment. “Suboxone essentially stops the cravings for drugs. What remission is to cancer, suboxone is to substance use disorders. It effectively blocks the desire to get high, because individuals are […]
Community Report, News
Computers on Carts Bring Behavioral Health Services to County Emergency Departments and Law Enforcement
Mar
Computers on carts are rolling in a new era of telehealth – literally. Over the past several months, Comprehensive Healthcare has partnered with 12 hospitals and county jails to install secure, user-friendly mobile devices that provide immediate access to crisis behavioral health services at sites across Central Washington. “With just two clicks of a mouse, […]
Community Report
An App to Navigate Daily Life with Schizophrenia, and Modern Therapy Built on Storytelling Traditions
Mar
For decades, Comprehensive Healthcare has fostered a close partnership with the University of Washington to engage clients and community members in innovative research projects to advance behavioral health care in our region, state, and nationwide. Two of our current initiatives, Healing Seasons and FOCUS, are designed to uncover new, evidence-based approaches to helping clients build […]
Mar
By: Jodi Daly, Ph.D., President and CEO As we navigate the beginning of 2021 against a backdrop of challenges and opportunities due to the pandemic, my hope is that we experience a year of healing. I hope we experience a year in which the vaccine protects our communities, and our unity and solidarity around racial […]