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DHHS-PUBLIC HEALTH: DAYMARK RECOVERY SERVICES - MEDICATION ASSISTED TREATMENT - ($533,925)
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SPONSOR
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Anita Ramachandran
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BACKGROUND
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Guilford County Commissioners and staff, in cooperation with Daymark Recovery Services, have identified a need for an opportunity to provide low barrier medication assisted treatment induction at the facility at Gibson Park operated by Daymark. Public Health is seeking the Board of Commissioners' approval for a contract with Daymark Recovery Services to continue funding the Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) program at Gibson Park. This contract extends the Board’s previous commitment, initially approved and signed on November 2, 2023, to allocate Opioid settlement funding to support this critical program. The MAT program is a key component of the county’s Low Barrier Support for Recovery Services strategy, as detailed in Exhibit A of the Opioid Settlement Memorandum of Agreement (MOA). This activity is also one of the recommendations from the Opioid strategic planning process that the Board approved in March 2024.
The low-barrier medication assisted treatment (MAT) will be provided in addition and will be complementary to the existing residential recovery program operated at Gibson Park by Daymark and will allow individuals who need to start medication-assisted treatment (MAT) or who are already on MAT to do so while also participating in the residential recovery programs on-site.
Daymark currently operates forty (40) beds at the Gibson Park site, due to staffing and patient ratio requirements. Based on this capacity, they estimate that they can serve up to 360 persons per year in this MAT service, assuming a minimum stay of thirty (30) days each and 75% of the beds being used by MAT participants. Longer average stay lengths and a lower percentage of bed usage by MAT participants will change this service number.
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