St. Joseph's and partners open supportive housing development
St. Joseph's Health and the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency have opened Barclay Place, the first supportive housing to be completed under a state partnership program that promotes hospital investment in affordable and supportive housing in their communities.
With 56 units, Barclay Place is available for vulnerable families and individuals to rent affordable apartments and make use of supportive services provided by St. Joseph's Health. Barclay Place is in Paterson, where St. Joseph's Health is based.
"We are very proud to build the first housing unit as part of the Hospital Partnership Subsidy Program and to create a space outside our hospital walls that addresses the health needs within our community," Kevin J. Slavin, president and CEO of St. Joseph's Health, said in a press release about the development.
Under its $12 million state program, the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency matched funding contributions from St. Joseph's. Several units within Barclay Place are set aside for residents with special needs and/or for frequent users of hospital emergency department services.
Partnership provides peer support for patients battling addictions
St. Claire HealthCare is partnering with Edgewater Recovery in a peer support program.
St. Claire patients who are struggling with drug or alcohol addiction will be paired with a peer support specialist at Edgewater "who will help them achieve sustained recovery through shared, lived or common experiences with substance use, addiction or mental health struggles." That is according to a press release on the program from the Morehead, Kentucky-based St. Claire.
Edgewater Recovery is a state-licensed behavioral health organization that offers alcohol and drug abuse treatment.
At an event announcing the partnership, Morehead Mayor Laura White-Brown noted that there were 105 overdoses last year in the city of about 7,000.
Mercy-Mayo Clinic data collaboration adds three international partners
A 10-year collaboration agreement between Mercy and Mayo Clinic is going global through Mayo Clinic Platform_Connect, a distributed data network.
After first joining with Chesterfield, Missouri-based Mercy to collaborate last summer, Mayo Clinic also has reached similar agreements with Brazil's Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Israel's Sheba Medical Center and Canada's University Health Network.
The organizations' joint goal is improving the lives and care of patients around the world by using deidentified patient data to pinpoint diseases earlier and transform health care delivery and the practice of medicine to a model much more focused on preventative and wellness care, Mercy said in a press release.