SalusCare is coordinating with community partners, including Lee County EMS and Family Health Centers, to link overdose patients to treatment, including detoxification and Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT). The program, funded by grants from the state’s Opioid Settlement Agreement, is administered by the Central Florida Behavioral Health Network in partnership with the state’s Department of Health, Department.

SalusCare has expanded its detoxification services to provide an individualized and supportive approach for those addicted to methamphetamines, kratom, molly, ecstasy and cocaine along with its existing detox treatments for benzodiazepines, opioids and alcohol. The list of substances for detoxification treatment at SalusCare has expanded to meet treatments needed in the community and incorporates American.

Jessica Plazewski, vice president and COO of SalusCare, a mental and behavioral health care nonprofit organization based in Fort Myers, recently earned her license as a mental health counselor. Obtaining a mental health counselor license requires rigorous training and a significant time commitment. In addition to her mental health counselor license, Plazewski previously earned her.

SalusCare has been selected as one of more than 100 pilot sites nationwide for Addiction Policy Forum’s Anti-Stigma Initiative, with the goal of reducing the stigma that prevents people struggling with addiction from reaching out for help. The pilot program, which was launched by the Addiction Policy Forum in late 2023, will deploy and test.

More than 30 members of management and staff at SalusCare, the largest nonprofit mental health and substance abuse treatment agency in Southwest Florida, are participating in a pilot program designed to decrease stress and burnout of health care workers. The weekly training from January through April aims to improve job satisfaction and ability to meet.

FORT MYERS, Fla. (Sept. 22, 2023) – SalusCare, the largest nonprofit mental health and substance abuse treatment agency in Southwest Florida, has partnered with FISH of Sanibel-Captiva – a nonprofit dedicated to providing food, island-based education, social and senior services, and help to the island communities – to provide free weekly group therapy sessions focusing.

FORT MYERS, Fla. (July 25, 2023) – Stacey Cook, CEO of SalusCare since 2016, was named among the top 20 best communicators in Southwest Florida by Southwest Florida Speakers & Trainers Association. Among its members are professional speakers, thought leaders, industry experts, trainers, consultants, authors, bloggers and podcasters. Southwest Florida Speakers & Trainers Association was.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DOWNLOAD LINK: PHOTOS SalusCare celebrates 10 years of care for the community The full-service mental and behavioral health organization is positioned to meet the growing need for mental and behavioral health in the community FORT MYERS, Fla. (June 12, 2023) – SalusCare celebrates 10 years since it was created after a merger.

SalusCare will reopen its Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU) on Monday, May 15. The CSU, where some of the area’s most urgent and severe mental health crises are treated, has been closed since Hurricane Ian due to storm damage. During Hurricane Ian, SalusCare’s 46-bed (16-bed children and 30-bed adult) CSU was flooded, with moisture rising two.