Times Union: SEEN — St. Peter’s Hospital Foundation Catherine McAuley Reception

The $105 million, multi-year Troy Master Facilities Plan was featured in the Times Union article, “Ups and downs marked the year’s economic news.”

The Times Union published a new story as part of its continuing coverage on the growing opioid epidemic in the Capital Region. Dr. Melissa Weimer, Chief of Behavioral Health and Addiction Medicine at St. Peter’s Hospital, was interviewed as part of the story: The newest medical approach may be at St. Peter’s Health Partners, where drug users addicted to heroin, fentanyl and other opioids can now walk into outpatient locations in Albany, Troy and Cohoes or emergency departments at Samaritan, Albany Memorial and St. Peter’s hospitals and promptly be evaluated to get buprenorphine to help them through withdrawal, or more intense detox services if needed. The program has served more than 300 people since it opened last September. “When the person feels, I am able to change in this moment, we are ready to treat them in this moment,” said Dr. Melissa Weimer, medical director of the SPHP Addiction Recovery Center. “We’re trying to make it so there’s no closed door.” To view the article, which also includes a video of Dr. Weimer discussing the […]

The Times Union published a story about a new region-wide consortium launching this week aimed at addressing the growing opioid epidemic. St. Peter’s Health Partners is proud to be a part of the “Prescription for Progress: United Against Opioid addiction” coalition.