Andromeda Transcultural Health
Sauis Addition (historical), Washington, D.C.
Sauis Addition (historical), Washington, D.C.
Andromeda serves on average 4.500 patients a year, seeing many of them multiple times during the year.
Since its creation in 1970, Andromeda has impacted the lives of at least 50,000 individuals and their families –350,000 people– by helping them address alcohol and substance abuse addiction, mental illness, HIV, and other chronic diseases.
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Mental Health
Andromeda provides individuals, couples, and family mental health and substance abuse services for those who are suffering from these illnesses and those who are HIV positives. We provide Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment that helps people develop the hope, knowledge, skills, and support they need to manage their problems.
The treatment also helps individuals pursue meaningful life goals, behavioral interventions as needed, and crisis intervention services. Our philosophy of treatment is to provide dignified care with a holistic approach by combining mental health and substance abuse treatment in a coordinated, highly individualized, and flexible treatment plan.
HIV Services
After more than four decades of serving indigent, underinsured, and uninsured D.C. residents, Andromeda continues to live by its mission of providing culturally accessible and quality health services to District residents living with or affected by HIV.
Our integrated system of care consists of core medical services:
Outpatient Ambulatory Medical Care
Medical Case Management
Treatment Adherence Counseling
Mental Health
Substance Abuse Services
Substance Use Services
In response to the recent spike in the heroin epidemic in young people in the DC region, in addition to the rise in deaths due to overdoses of heroin and other opiates, for the past 10 years, Andromeda has been successfully serving 90 patients with the Buprenorphine and naloxone (Suboxone) treatment program. As one of the few Medication Assisted Therapy (MAT) treatment providers in Washington, DC, Andromeda is uniquely positioned to provide MAT for opioid-dependent persons with unmet treatment needs for substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders.
For those suffering from addiction to opiates, Andromeda offers individual and group therapy options including prescribing Suboxone treatment as part of our Suboxone Group.
Case Management Services
The HIV/AIDS continuum of care is a complex medical and social service agency system that can be challenging for people living with HIV to navigate. Medical Case managers (MCMs) play a vital role in helping clients navigate and access HIV/AIDS care. MCMs assist clients in addressing barriers while providing flexible services to the client’s current medical and social needs. Medical case management reflects a philosophy that affirms a client’s right to privacy, confidentiality, respect, non-discrimination, dignity, and self-determination.
MCMs provide ongoing case management to individuals, dual diagnosed, and LGBT populations that have been diagnosed with HIV/ AIDS, which consist of the indigent, uninsured, and under-insured clients who have additional co-morbidities such as persistent severe mental illness and substance abuse. MCMs provide in-depth counseling, crisis intervention, education, translation, and ongoing support services and expertise through comprehensive assessment, planning, referral, and overall evaluation of individual patient needs.
