Kristie McGough

Bachelor's

Legal Studies

Escambia County Board of County Commissioners Department of Public Safety

RN EMS CORe

- The CORE Network is the first of its kind in the nation, coordinated through the Department of Health, Department of Children and Families, and the Agency for Health Care Administration. The full-scale treatment approach of the CORE Network expands every aspect of overdose response and creates an all-inclusive sustained system of care and patient navigation to wholistically address all primary and secondary impacts of substance use disorder. CORE provides a personalized treatment umbrella ranging from primary care to mental health support. By facilitating these connections in Escambia County, CORE disrupts the revolving door of addiction by connecting overdoses to sustainable care, in real time. This program facilitates the necessary connections among local emergency response and specialty health care networks to not only respond to an acute overdose, but to connect individuals suffering from substance use disorder to sustainable and long-term care. CORE was successfully piloted in Palm Beach County for nearly two years and will be expanding in up to twelve additional counties to help patients break free from the deadly cycle of overdose. Floridians battling with addiction can utilize CORE for stabilization and to receive medication assisted treatment from a network of specialized medical experts that will help guide them on a sustained pathway to healthy success. CORE will be expanded in two phases. Phase one counties include Brevard, Clay, Escambia, Gulf, Marion, Pasco, and Volusia counties. Phase two counties include Citrus, Duval, Flagler, Manatee, and Pinellas