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In a start with award of its kind for addiction services, the Addiction Treatment Services of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center was awarded the 2007 Codman Award by The Joint Commission on November 12 at their annual Resources’ Discussion on Nobility and Safety in Chicago payment its innovative Motivated Stepped Care (MSC) treatment model for methadone patients. The award recognizes excellence in the use of outcomes ascertainment to succeed in improvements in the quality and safety of health care.

The Bayview center initiated the program, developed and tested with the support of the National Institute on Dose Upbraiding (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to warfare poor counseling attendance and steep rates of continuing drug use among methadone patients. MSC features a patient/provider matching protocol that puts the most severely affected patients under the care of the most experienced and highly trained mace, along with behavioral contingency plans to bolster adherence to recommended treatments. MSC was cited for success in decreasing decisive urine tests from 74 percent to 54 percent and increasing troupe counseling being from 14 percent to 65 percent. Addiction Treatment Services has seen separate counseling attendance rates rise and has replicated parts of the MSC configuration in other treatment clinics in Baltimore.

NIDA believes that Bayview’s MSC treatment program has created an important model for treating methadone patients that is well replicable and that such innovations are essential to our capacity to treat addiction using the latest evidence-based techniques, and increase outreach to treatment where it is most needed.

National Alliance on Sedative Abuse

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