The Addiction Recovery and Community Health (ARCH) Team strives to improve health outcomes and health care access for patients with substance use disorders. The ARCH Team delivers specialty consult services to emergency department patients and hospital inpatients at the Royal Alexandra Hospital. The ARCH team provides patient-centered, evidence-based, and trauma-informed care. By using a coordinated, multidisciplinary approach, the team supports patients at every step in their recovery journey.

The ARCH Team, working with a patient’s care team in the emergency department (ED) or inpatient setting, can assist with:

• complex withdrawal management
• treatment and recovery planning
• counselling, peer and psychosocial supports
• overdose prevention
• referrals to wraparound addiction recovery supports
• linkage to primary and community-based care
• connections to housing, healthcare coverage, income supports and identification
• other health promotion interventions