How Vail Health's Patient Care Unit is Fighting the Opioid Epidemic
Dec 15, 2022To help combat the rise of the opioid crisis, and in acknowledgement that opioid addiction can occur after treatment in hospitals, Vail Health's nurses from the PCU (Patient Care Unit) proactively began an initiative called the Comfort Menu, a guide aimed to reduce the use of opioids by our patients while in our care. The results speak for themselves: patients in less pain, using fewer opioid medications, and in less danger of developing addiction. Kirsten Conner meets with Molly English, Director of the PCU and ICU, about the data, and how Vail Health's example is being emulated in other hospitals across the country.