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St. Luke’s to boost rural health care with $1.94M grant
St. Luke’s University Health Network received a $1.94M federal grant to enhance rural family medicine and expand street medicine in Carbon and Schuylkill counties.
Treatment center focuses on opioid addiction; sees spike since COVID-19
Crossroads Treatment Centers has seen a spike in patients seeking care for opioid addiction since the COVID-19 pandemic.
An oasis for families, friends hit by opioids
The Oasis Community Center would provide family support meetings, grief recovery groups and healing activities. The house, which is about 3,200 square feet, will include space for cooking classes, a meditation room, restorative yoga, art therapy and other activities.
Opioid addiction programs by health care providers see results
Over-prescribing opioids have been targeted as a driving force behind the nation’s opioid addiction crisis. For the past year, two Pennsylvania health systems have taken efforts to slow the problem.
