Root Center is so excited to welcome (back) Lisa Barbati as our Director of Quality & Compliance! Lisa returns to Root after obtaining her BSN and developing her career in Quality and Compliance. Lisa is Board Certified in Addictions Nursing (CARN) and has over 33 years of Nursing experience in Acute Hospital Care, Inpatient Behavioral Health Services and Outpatient Addiction Treatment Services. She served Root Center for 24 years in several prior capacities as a staff nurse and RN supervisor and is the 2019 RCAR recipient of the Nightingale Award for Excellence in Nursing. Most recently, Lisa held roles in Quality Improvement as a Clinical Quality RN with Intercommunity, Inc., and as a Virtual RN with Trinity Health of New England. In these roles, she honed her skills in Quality Assurance, Clinical Documentation Compliance, Data Analysis, and Ambulatory Care Risk Management. She's worked closely with leadership in Quality and Compliance, acted as a change agent and subject matter expert for several Quality Improvement initiatives, and assisted in developing tools and training on Quality & Compliance platforms. Lisa is dedicated to getting the facts right and maintaining high credibility. She thrives on research, making sense of things, and finding balance. She advocates for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, serving as an advocate for Autism and the LGBTQ community.  Lisa is excited to be back in her new role as Director of Quality and Compliance at Root.

We are excited for our next Community Forum! Save the date... Thursday, November 7th, we will be hosting a discussion on "The Loneliness Epidemic: The Silent Sadness". Join us for a discussion on this topic with leaders in the mental health/addiction space. This event is free/open to the public, and you can attend in-person or virtually. It will be from 6-8pm on the 2nd floor of our Manchester Clinic: 335 Broad Street. This is a moderated discussion from 6-7pm, with a 30 minute Q&A section with attendees to follow. Hors d'oeuvres will be served, and attendees are encouraged to stay, eat, and mingle. To register to attend in-person, please go here . To register to attend virtually, please go here . We are so excited to welcome our amazing panelists to this discussion: Andi Campbell, President of Wellspark Health, an Emblem Health company. Dr. Peter Donato, Vice President of Clinical Services at Apple Rehab. Deb Bibbins, JD, MBA, Founder and CEO of For All Ages, a convener of The Connecticut Collaborative to End Loneliness. Dr. Saud Anwar, State Senator, Deputy President Pro Tempore, Medical Doctor specializing in lung diseases and critical care medicine, occupational and environmental medicine. Allison Gaffey, PhD, FAHA, Assistant Professor at Yale School of Medicine. Dr. John Nazarian, Medical Director at Community Mental Health Affiliates, Inc. (CMHA), and future Chief Medical Officer of the Root Center for Advanced Recovery.