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Fora Health staff are THE pilar to providing care to our community. We are so grateful for each person who has walked into Fora Health and made a difference. Andy, Facilities Director, has been working here for almost 20 years – creating a safe and clean facility so that people’s journey to sobriety is housed in a place of tranquility.

In honor of our upcoming 50th anniversary, let’s take a brief look at the origins of Fora Health/De Paul Treatment Center and the person who helped mold the innovative and life-saving organization it would become.

At Fora Health, we recognize how medicine can be a useful tool for those who are withdrawing from substances and looking for recovery. Fora Health champions individualized recovery plans that allow patients to decide how they would like to approach their recovery. As a way to ensure patients have treatment options, we offer Buprenorphine, which can be instrumental to recovery.

The $936K Community Benefit Initiative grant recognizes Fora Health’s commitment to enhancing community health and well-being. The grant funds will help the organization support unhoused patients in recovery to access housing with rental payments assistance, security deposits, home furnishings, utility expenses and food needs. The grant also helps create an opportunity to provide Fora Health’s unhoused patients with complete whole-person care, affording them the opportunities to become fully independent in a new housed environment and accrue resources necessary to keep them from falling back into houselessness – a serious issue facing the Portland metropolitan area.

Dr. Eowyn Rieke, Fora Health’s Outpatient Medical Director, recently had three presentations accepted to national conferences in 2024. She will present “Maximally Supportive Care: Creating Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Systems to Improve Engagement and Retention” and “3.7R Medically Monitored Residential: Creating a Critical Service for Complex Patients” at the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) 55th Annual Conference (Dallas, Texas – April 4-7), and “Fent to Bupe: Paths to Success from Camp to Clinic” at the 2024 National Health Care For The Homeless Conference & Policy Symposium (Phoenix, Ariz. – May 13-16).

Dr. Jennifer Hartley, Fora Health’s Medical Director for Withdrawal Management, Innovation & Special Projects, was recently honored as a Saint by the Portland Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, The Order of Benevolent Bliss.