Our Mission

Contributing to a Cause

The Sentinel Center for Alcohol Recovery, Education & Treatment (SARET) is an emerging nonprofit initiative focused on advancing integrated clinical pathways, systems improvement, and public-health education for alcohol-related medical emergencies. SARET aims to partner with clinical leaders and systems to research, educate, and design innovative solutions. Our goal is to continue to build and lead to breakthroughs in alcohol-related emergency medicine and health as a whole.

The Gap in Alcohol Emergency Care

Alcohol-related emergencies are one of the most common and persistent challenges facing healthcare systems. The way these emergencies are addressed have historically come with flaws and unnecessary challenges. Emergency Departments' approach on alcohol related cases can contribute to the large number of recurring visits for patients in that category. Inconsistent follow-up, quick discharge, and most importantly, missed opportunities for proper education and sustained recovery are all factors that contribute to this issue. Patients frequently move between different systems, lacking a standardized pathway, making long term recovery and growth difficult.

Our Approach

Our approach at SARET is to focus on these limiting factors in alcohol emergency care, and find ways to add to and rework them in a way that makes emergency visits increasingly effective for both parties. Our goal is to put education at the forefront, striving to reduce the amount of alcohol-related revisits and improve the well-being of patients after their discharge. Our initiative is to pave the way for the development of specialized alcohol-care pathways within emergency departments. The goal is a model that integrates medical stabilization, risk assessment, and structured follow-up, with approaches that reduce repeat visits, improve patient outcomes, while also easing the strain on emergency departments.

The First Steps

Immersive Education

At The Sentinel Center, we recognize that alcohol-related emergency department visits lead to the most patient revisits than any other emergency. A large factor in these revisits is lack of education, particularly about alcoholism, other conditions, and general prevention as a whole. We can begin creating an improved pathway for alcohol patients with attacking the limits on education.

Our starting goal at SARET is to be immersive providers of some of this key information with emergency departments. We strive to educate affected patients, as well as organizations on innovative ways to approach alcohol emergencies, and limit revisits as much as possible.