Increasing Access to Buprenorphine in Safety-Net Primary Care Clinics: The New York City Buprenorphine Nurse Care Manager Initiative

The Buprenorphine Nurse Care Manager Initiative (BNCMI) sought to increase access to opioid use disorder treatment in underserved New York City populations by expanding buprenorphine treatment capacity in safety-net primary care clinics.During 2016 to 2020, BNCMI added 116 new buprenorphine provider...

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Published inAmerican journal of public health (1971) Vol. 111; no. 2; pp. 215 - 218
Main Authors Kaplan-Dobbs, Marissa, Kattan, Jessica A, Tuazon, Ellenie, Jimenez, Christian, Saleh, Sabina, Kunins, Hillary V
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Public Health Association 01.02.2021
Subjects
Access to Care
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Analgesics, Opioid - therapeutic use
Beneficiaries
Buprenorphine
Buprenorphine - therapeutic use
Cities
Clinics
Correspondence
Data analysis
Drug addiction
Drug overdose
Drug Overdose - prevention & control
Drug use
Drugs
Enrollments
Ethnicity
Female
Government programs
Harm reduction
Health care
Health Care Facilities/Services
Health Professionals
Health Services Accessibility
Hispanic people
Humans
Indigent care
Initiatives
Male
Medicaid
Middle Aged
Narcotics
New York City
Nurses
Opiate Substitution Treatment - methods
Opiate Substitution Treatment - statistics & numerical data
Opinions, Ideas, & Practice
Opioid-Related Disorders - drug therapy
Opioid-Related Disorders - nursing
Opioids
Other Race/Ethnicity
Overdose
Patients
Pharmacy
Populations
Prescriptions
Primary care
Primary Health Care
Public Health
Safety
Safety-net Providers
Socioeconomic Factors
Substance abuse treatment
Substance use disorder
Underserved populations
Young Adult
New York City
New York
Long Island New York
United States > US
New York City New York
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Summary:The Buprenorphine Nurse Care Manager Initiative (BNCMI) sought to increase access to opioid use disorder treatment in underserved New York City populations by expanding buprenorphine treatment capacity in safety-net primary care clinics.During 2016 to 2020, BNCMI added 116 new buprenorphine providers across 27 BNCMI clinics, and 1212 patients were enrolled; most patients identified as Latinx or Hispanic and were Medicaid beneficiaries.BNCMI increased access to buprenorphine, reached underserved populations, and is part of the New York City Health Department's multipronged approach to reducing opioid overdose deaths.
Bibliography:M. Kaplan-Dobbs led the writing of the article, designed and directed the initiative, and contributed to evaluation conceptualization and design and data analysis and interpretation. J. A. Kattan contributed to initiative design, evaluation conceptualization and design, data interpretation, and drafting and revising of the article. E. Tuazon contributed to evaluation conceptualization and design, data analysis and interpretation, and drafting and revising of the article. C. Jimenez contributed to evaluation design, data analysis and interpretation, and revising of the article. S. Saleh contributed to evaluation design and data collection. H. V. Kunins conceptualized the initiative, contributed to initiative design, and contributed to drafting and revising of the article.
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ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2020.306000