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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Health Progress highlights St. Vincent Charity's work to quickly adapt behavioral health care amid COVID-19

St. Vincent Charity Medical Center has had to adapt how it delivers care to patients, and that's especially evident in caring for patients with serious behavioral health concerns. Health Progress, a publication of the Catholic Health Association of the United States, recently highlighted how St. Vincent Charity has quickly reworked how it provides behavioral health care. ...Continue →

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

AA Meetings Go Digital

Care and support of individuals with substance use disorder and their families remains of the utmost importance to all of us at Rosary Hall. To help protect those we serve throughout the coronavirus pandemic, all AA meetings hosted at St. Vincent will be held online for the foreseeable future. ...Continue →

Thursday, February 06, 2020

Rosary Hall donor establishes $50,000 endowment to help support uninsured and under-insured patients

Gary Storch freely admits that he would not be alive today if it wasn’t for Rosary Hall at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center. He started drinking at the age of 15 and came to Rosary Hall in the late 1970s at the age of 18. He was without health insurance and without money to pay for much-needed alcohol addiction treatment—and without hope. Gary, now 58, decided he wanted to do more to show his gratitude and approached Rosary Hall about giving half of his life savings to the program upon his death for patients that cannot afford the inpatient detoxification program or don’t have insurance. Rather than waiting, he was moved to write a $50,000 check a few days later to establish the Gary and Patty Storch Endowment at Rosary Hall. ...Continue →

Thursday, October 10, 2019

St. Vincent to receive $2M as part of Cuyahoga County opioid lawsuit settlement

St. Vincent Charity Medical Center is receiving $2M as a result of a settlement with several drug makers. Cuyahoga and Summit counties are receiving $23M to put toward programs to fight opioid addiction. Money provided to Rosary Hall will be used to provide peer recovery support to help individuals access the services they need to support their long-term recovery. ...Continue →

Friday, September 06, 2019

Rosary Hall’s Dr. Ted Parran discusses life-saving naloxone and new naloxone toolkit on The Sound of Ideas

As part of the launch of an online Naloxone Toolkit from the Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium, Ted Parran, M.D., co-associate medical director of Rosary Hall at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center, participated in a discussion about naloxone as a life-saving, anti-overdose drug on an episode of ideastream’s® The Sound of Ideas. ...Continue →

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Rosary Hall group uses art therapy to help patients in treatment for drug addiction

Rosary Hall has been at the forefront of treating alcoholism and drug dependency for more than 60 years, so it's no surprise the program is using a new approach - art therapy - to help work toward recovery. Some of this inspiring artwork was on display at a reception at the SPACES Gallery in Cleveland in June. Both Cleveland 19 News and The Plain Dealer ran stories about the art therapy program. ...Continue →

Wednesday, May 08, 2019

May is Mental Health Month - Focus on #4Mind4Body for Balanced Mental Health

Mental health is essential to everyone’s overall health and well-being, and mental illnesses are common and treatable. So much of what we do physically impacts us mentally - it’s important to pay attention to both your physical health and your mental health, which can help you achieve overall wellness and set you on a path to recovery. This May is Mental Health Month and St. Vincent Charity Medical Center, with Mental Health America (MHA), is raising awareness about the connection between physical health and mental health. ...Continue →

Thursday, April 25, 2019

National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is Saturday, April 27

Too often, unused prescription drugs find their way into the wrong hands. That's dangerous and often tragic. The National Prescription Drug Take Back Day April 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. aims to provide a safe, convenient and responsible means of disposing of prescription drugs, while also educating the general public about the potential for abuse of medications. ...Continue →

Thursday, March 28, 2019

Cleveland Improbable Players offer reality of addiction and recovery in dramatization at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center

Cleveland’s Plain Dealer joined addition treatment caregivers and clients of Rosary Hall this week to view a dramatic performance staged by the Improbable Players. The professional troupe brings a raw, riveting message about addiction to schools and stages across communities hit hard by the opioid epidemic. ...Continue →

Monday, February 25, 2019

Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium Video Highlights Partnership

The Northeast Ohio Hospital Opioid Consortium has released a new video, highlighting the collaborative work under way by area hospitals to address the opioid crisis in the region. The Opioid Consortium video features representatives of the membership, including St. Vincent Charity Medical Center, who speak about the contributions being made to the overall effort. ...Continue →