Substance Use Navigator with PHI’s CA Bridge Program Demonstrates How Naloxone Can Save Lives

Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center uses PHI’s CA Bridge model to help provide immediate and effective solutions to substance use challenges in the community. Now, the medical center is installing a Naloxone distribution box outside their emergency rooms, ensuring that everyone has access to the lifesaving drug to prevent drug overdose deaths.

In this ABC News story, Sherrie Cisneros, a substance use navigator with PHI’s CA Bridge, demonstrates how to use Naloxone (commonly known as Narcan) to help save lives.

PHI’s CA Bridge helps hospital EDs provide life-saving substance use treatment and care by leveraging 24/7 access to care and medical wrap-around services, including immediate access to medication for addiction treatment; navigation to ongoing care in the community; and building a culture of harm reduction. It is now offered in every hospital in California and being adopted in hospitals across the country.

Originally published by ABC News