Albany treatment center outlines plan for weekday mobile methadone unit to serve Sweet Home area

James Page, acting clinical supervisor and representative of Albany Comprehensive Treatment Center, told the Sweet Home Health Committee that the clinic plans to station a mobile opioid treatment unit in Sweet Home five days a week to reduce long commutes and transportation barriers for patients.

Page said the program opened in Albany in November 2021 and now serves roughly 350 patients. He described travel burdens for people in the Sweet Home area, saying many face a "90 minute round trip" to Albany and frequent problems with medical-transport scheduling. "There’s a lot of barriers for patients who live in this area," Page said.

The proposed mobile unit would be a clinic-equipped recreational vehicle operated as an extension of the Albany site under that facility’s Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) licensure. Page said the unit would be stationary at a single leased parking location in Sweet Home for three to four morning hours — he suggested typical on-site hours around 5:30–9:30 a.m. — and run Monday through Friday. He estimated the DEA…