WNYT: Journey Through the Body — Learning CPR

James K. Reed, M.D., president and CEO of St. Peter’s Health Partners, appeared on WNYT to announce a new partnership with Albany County to help address hospital capacity concerns. It involves the utilization of space at the county-run Shaker Place Nursing Home.

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 […]

Sabrina Mosseau from St. Peter’s Health Partners spoke with NewsChannel 13 about an upcoming event, Visions of Strength, to raise funds for integrative therapies for cancer patients.