The Opportunity Isn’t in Better Treatment. It’s in Fewer People Who Ever Need It.
For decades, the response to the opioid crisis has been largely reactive – reversing overdoses, treating addiction, and managing the consequences once harm has already occurred. While these efforts are essential and save lives every day, they address the outcome, not the origin.
The OFA Opioid Stewardship Implementation Program focuses on prevention at the point where risk often begins: within the healthcare system itself.
This program equips healthcare facilities and individual providers with a practical, evidence-informed framework to redesign how pain is managed, how patients are educated, and how care pathways are structured – so that every touchpoint becomes an opportunity to prevent unnecessary exposure rather than respond to its consequences.
Prevention at this level requires more than good intentions – it requires clear protocols, accountability, and systems integrated into everyday practice. This program helps organizations build and sustain that foundation.
FACILITY PARTICIPATION
Opioid Stewardship Implementation Program
Designed for healthcare organizations, surgical centers, and clinical teams ready to build a facility-wide stewardship program.
The program provides an eight-module educational and operational framework covering:
- Governance, leadership accountability, and stewardship infrastructure
- Standardized, evidence-based multimodal care pathways
- Patient risk stratification and pre-procedure screening
- Patient education, informed consent, and shared decision-making
- ERAS protocols and opioid-sparing clinical strategies
- Discharge planning, safe prescribing, and post-care follow-up
- Data tracking, quarterly review, and continuous quality improvement
Each module includes practical implementation tools, sample policies, downloadable resources, and operational guidance built for real-world clinical environments – grounded in real-world clinical practice.
Facilities that complete the program, implement stewardship practices, and submit two consecutive quarterly reports are eligible for listing in the OFA Opioid Stewardship Registry Network – visible to employers, health plans, and care navigation partners seeking facilities with demonstrated stewardship.
Registry status is maintained through ongoing quarterly reporting, reflecting a facility’s active, continuing commitment to prevention-first care.
provider recognition
Provider Recognition Program
Designed for individual clinicians committed to prevention-first, opioid-sparing care.
Providers receive OFA Recognition by submitting documentation of opioid-sparing or opioid-free continuing medical education (CME) completed within the past year. Recognition is maintained with a minimum of three hours of relevant CME annually.
The OFA Provider Recognition designation allows clinicians to demonstrate their personal commitment to safer pain management – and reinforces their organization’s broader stewardship practices.
Recognized providers are listed in the OFA Recognized Provider Registry Network.
Opioid Free America is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing opioid addiction and advancing solutions that reduce unnecessary opioid exposure. Through advocacy, awareness, and stewardship initiatives, we work to bring greater attention to the preventable pathways that often lead to opioid dependence.
The Opioid Stewardship Implementation Program provides participating organizations with frameworks, guidance, and resources to support the development of their own stewardship efforts. OFA does not provide medical care, direct clinical oversight, or evaluate individual patient outcomes. Clinical decisions remain the responsibility of participating providers and healthcare organizations.
Opioid Free America Registry
Inclusion in the OFA Opioid Stewardship or Recognized Provider Registry Network reflects an organization’s and individual provider’s commitment to Opioid Free America’s mission. Registry participation is not an accreditation, certification, or endorsement of clinical outcomes.