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Project ASSERT honored by the American College of Physicians for bringing comprehensive addiction care

April 18th, 2018

Boston Medical Center's (BMC) Project ASSERT has been awarded the American College of Physicians (ACP) Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award from the Rosenthal Family Foundation. The award will be presented at ACP's Convocation Ceremony on Thursday, April 19, 2018, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.

Project ASSERT created to improve Alcohol & Substance Use Services, Education, and Referral to Treatment employs a team of peer educators who counsel patients whose alcohol or substance use has led them to the emergency department. In collaboration with hospital staff, health promotion advocates offer screening, brief intervention and health resources for patients.

Led by supervisor Ludy Young, LADC, and BMC emergency medicine physician Edward Bernstein, Project ASSERT Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselors have offered active referrals to alcohol and drug treatment services and community resources for more than 60,000 patients treated in the ED since starting in 1994. In winning this award, Project ASSERT has proved to be an effective care model for other addiction medicine programs across the nation.

"These professionals, recruited from the communities we serve, play a vital role in bringing their expertise, life experience and nonjudgmental, respectful care to patients struggling with addiction and those who lack the basics of adequate housing, food security and a living wage. As their co-founder and medical director, I am proud to be a team member and honored to receive this award on their behalf," says Bernstein, who is a professor of emergency medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and has a joint appointment in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the School of Public Health.

Established in 1976, the award is given "to that individual or organization whose recent original approach in the delivery of health care or in the design of facilities for its delivery will increase its clinical and/or economic effectiveness."

Provided by Boston Medical Center

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