HCA Healthcare to Host Fourth Annual “Crush the Crisis” National Opioid Take Back Day on October 29
26 Oktober 2022 - 10:41PM
Business Wire
HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:HCA), one of the nation’s leading
healthcare providers, today announced its fourth annual “Crush the
Crisis” national opioid take back day to raise awareness about the
dangers of opioid misuse and the importance of safe and proper
disposal of unused or expired medications, on Saturday, October 29,
2022.
More than 100 HCA Healthcare facilities across the country will
partner with local law enforcement to help communities safely,
responsibly and anonymously collect unused and expired medication.
The event coincides with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s
(DEA) National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.
“We have made great strides in fighting the opioid crisis
plaguing our country, but there is still work to be done,” said Dr.
Randy Fagin, chief medical officer of HCA Healthcare’s National
Group. “We are looking forward to building off the previous success
of ‘Crush the Crisis’, as HCA Healthcare continues to fight against
opioid misuse and addiction.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
there were more than 107,000 drug overdose deaths in the United
States in 2021, up nearly 15 percent from 2020. The 2020 National
Survey on Drug Use and Health showed a majority of misused
prescription drugs were obtained from family and friends, often
from the home medicine cabinet. Last year, “Crush the Crisis” take
back events collected 15,566 pounds of unused or expired
medication, approximately 10.7 million doses.
To further help combat the nation’s opioid crisis, HCA
Healthcare has worked with the National Academy of Medicine’s (NAM)
Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic. HCA
Healthcare has given $750,000 to the Collaborative to support the
development of safer pain management protocols and reversal of the
opioid crisis.
As a learning health system, HCA Healthcare uses data from
approximately 35 million annual patient encounters to help
continuously improve care. The organization uses the science of
“big data” to reduce opioid misuse and transform pain management,
with initiatives in surgical, emergency and other care settings,
including:
- Enhanced Surgical Recovery (ESR): a multi-modal approach
to pain management using pre, intra and post-operative
interventions to optimize outcomes. HCA Healthcare’s ESR programs
have demonstrated significant improvements in surgical recovery and
patient satisfaction, including up to a 44 percent decrease in
opioid usage for targeted complex surgeries.
- Electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS):
aims to stem increasing rates of opioid-related addiction, misuse
diversion and death by making it more difficult for
medication-seekers to doctor-shop and alter prescriptions.
Physicians have access to aggregated electronic health records,
providing data that will allow them to prescribe opioids
judiciously.
For more information on “Crush the Crisis,” visit
hcahealthcare.com/crushthecrisis or call toll free at (833)
582-1970.
About HCA Healthcare
Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is one of the nation’s leading
providers of healthcare services comprising 182 hospitals and
approximately 2,300 ambulatory sites of care, including surgery
centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers, and physician
clinics, in 20 states and the United Kingdom. With its founding in
1968, HCA Healthcare created a new model for hospital care in the
United States, using combined resources to strengthen hospitals,
deliver patient-focused care and improve the practice of medicine.
HCA Healthcare has conducted a number of clinical studies,
including one that demonstrated that full-term delivery is
healthier than early elective delivery of babies and another that
identified a clinical protocol that can reduce bloodstream
infections in ICU patients by 44%. HCA Healthcare is a learning
health system that uses its more than 35 million annual patient
encounters to advance science, improve patient care and save lives.
Please click here to connect with HCA Healthcare on social
media.
All references to “Company,” “HCA” and “HCA
Healthcare” as used throughout this document refer to HCA
Healthcare, Inc. and its affiliates.
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