Opioid Stewardship Affinity Group

WHAT IS AN AFFINITY GROUP?
Affinity Groups highlight best practices, resources, and successful solutions to challenges. Opioid Stewardship Affinity Group attendees will:

• Discuss how to initiate/expand a hospital Opioid Stewardship program.
• Share best practices, resources, and successful solutions to challenges.
• Pose questions to subject matter experts (SMEs) who have implemented successful programs.
• Evaluate data and outcome measures.

DATES, TIMES, TOPICS AND SMEs

August 14, 2023
11 am – 12 pm EST (10 – 11 am CST)

Lisa Caswell, RPh
Director of Pharmacy
Redington-Fairview General Hospital

Cynthia Currier, BS Education, MHRT-C (Provisional)
Patient Navigator
Somerset Public Health (a department of Redington-Fairview General Hospital)

Objectives:
Redington-Fairview General Hospital, Maine

• Outline opioid prescribing practices at a rural hospital.
• Describe medication-assisted treatment options and options for addressing stigma.
• Describe the role of the patient navigator.
• Describe one harm reduction focus (Narcan distribution).
• Recognize the wider community involvement in addressing opiate misuse and stigma.

Mark Shen, PharmD., BCPS
Clinical Pharmacist: Transitions of Care
Co-Chair: Pain Management Committee
PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency Program Coordinator NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island

Objectives:
NYU Langone Hospital, Long Island, New York

• Review baseline surgery-related opioid prescribing patterns after coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
• Discuss current best practices for post-surgical opioid prescribing.
• List interventions to decrease the number of opioid tablets provided on patient discharge.
• Describe the outcomes/successes of the intervention.