PHOTOS: Take a look inside the new OneFifteen campus in Dayton
The project partners came out Friday to celebrate the construction progress and the last steel beam being placed on the building frame.
“We believe having the facilites together on one campus will really help to lessen the burden on individuals as the many, many transitions of care overtime,” OneFifteen president and CEO Marti Taylor said.
The campus will have clinical services but OneFifteen will also connect patients to social services and other support beyond medical care, Taylor said.
The original momentum for the project came from the opioid overdose crisis, though the services will also be for people with other addictions besides opioids.
While the opioid crisis put Montgomery County in the spotlight for its high overdose rate, project organizers have said they want OneFifteen to bring the spotlight to the community as a new model for recovery to be replicated.
“We are excited to have top notch facilities that will treat addiction like the disease that it is,” said Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, who was one of the speakers at the event.
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Several speakers said they wanted OneFifteen to be the “Cleveland Clinic” of addiction services. Dr. Robert M. Califf, OneFifteen advisory board member, said “in addition to being the Cleveland Clinic for this problem, I very much hope that we’ll learn how to do this well here so that we can replicate it all over the United States because there are so many communities that have the same issues that Dayton is experiencing.”
The OneFifteen campus is under construction off Hopeland Street near the Elizabeth Place campus off Edwin C. Moses Boulevard. The first patients have yet to be seen though there was a celebration in June to mark the completion of the first two locations in the system: 22,000 square feet of leased space in neighboring a Kindred Hospital and the 10,000-square-foot outpatient clinic Hopeland Street near the Elizabeth Place campus.
The first patients should be seen this fall.
Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Montgomery County Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services, said while there is existing recovery housing in the area such as group homes, the model of the sober living apartments at the OneFifteen campus are a new type of service to the area.
The OneFifteen system is designed around helping patients smoothly transition from different types of care, because someone’s recovery from addiction can be disrupted or sobriety lost during rocky periods of moving from different types of care.
Premier’s Samaritan Behavioral Health is providing the clinical services. Verily will be analyze clinical data to see what works.
The space in Kindred Hospital is a crisis stabilization center, which has also been described as a missing piece in the local response to the opioid overdose crisis. The crisis center will be able to be an alternative to the ER where patients in an addiction crisis can be evaluated and stay up to 23 hours while they stabilize. Patients might be able to avoid an inpatient stay by getting started on medication and linked to outpatient care.
The OneFifteen campus should be complete in 2020 and will eventually have other services like sober living apartments. Project officials are still exploring other types of opportunities, such as a possible convenience store at the site so patients can conveniently get grocery items. Renderings show that the full 4.5-acre campus will have a winding path, gardens and outdoor gathering space.
OneFifteen Facts & Figures
58: Beds at sober living apartments
Fall 2019: First OneFifteen patients to be treated
Summer 2020: Projected completion of apartments
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