The first integrated Primary, Behavioral and Methadone Healthcare Clinic in Massachusetts held an open house in its new location at 1010 South Main Street, Fall River, on March 9, 2012. Located in a 12,4300 square foot facility in the City's South End, the clinic will provide the same extraordinary, high quality, cost effective treatment that is now provided at Stanley Street Treatment and Resources' (SSTAR) other location in the city and in Rhode Island. SSTAR's CEO, Nancy Paull, was able to renovate the building, owned by Steward Health Care, with a $480,000 American Recovery and Resiliency Act (AARA) grant and $130,000 of its own funds. SSTAR has a ten-year lease on the building and will be able to move its methadone clinic services into the building from its current location at Saint Anne's Hospital. The clinic will also house primary care physicians as well as behavioral health counselors for drug and alcohol dependency treatment. Click here for the Herald News article. Click here for a video of the event. To learn more, contact CEO Nancy Paull at 508-324-3500.

(Top row, left) RN Nurse Manager Pat Affonso, center, leads a tour of the clinic area. (Top row, center) SSTAR's CEO Nancy Paull, right, shows Cheryl Shaughnessy and John Hunt some of the features of the new facility. (Top row, right) Raquel Rodrigues and Brenda Viveiros of BMC HealthNet Plan join Alvin McMahon, Coordinator for the Greater Fall River Medical Reserve Corps, and Tammy Lamothe, R.N. of the Somerset Town Nursing Office for a tour of the new facility. (Row two, left) U.S. Congressional candidate William Keating and John Hunt, President and CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers praise SSTAR for opening the new facility. (Row three) Family practice physician Dr. Holly Alexandre talks about the improvement of access the center will offer South End families before Fall River Mayor Flanagan prepares to cut the ribbon. (Bottom row, left) John Hunt talks with State Representatives David Sullivan and Kevin Aguiar following the ceremony. (Bottom row, center) Massachusetts Department of Public Health Bureau of Substance Abuse Services staff Ruth Karmelin-Bice and Lauren Santoli, MD chat with Robert Hitt, director of SSTAR's Project Aware. (Bottom row, right) Staff Natasha Andrade, Suzanne Jusseaume, Donna Chase and Alonso Pillar look out from the patient check-in window.