Author: CHESS Health

    CHESS Health Launches TouchPoint to Enable Multi-Channel Patient Engagement

    October 7, 2025

    TouchPoint eliminates communication barriers and engagement gaps while driving improved treatment adherence, patient satisfaction, and program retention across your entire patient population.
    stigma creates costly barriers to mental health and substance use disorder treatment, and how digital tools can reduce costs while improving access to care and recovery outcomes for health plans, providers, and public sector organizations.

    The Business Case for Reducing Mental Health and SUD Stigma

    September 26, 2025

    A Strategic Guide for Health Plans, Providers, Employers, and the Public Sector Mental health stigma is costing the U.S. economy hundreds of billions annually through delayed care, emergency interventions, and
    Learn about the barriers that contribute to the persistent inequities in substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, and how to overcome them.

    Breaking Down Barriers: Addressing Inequities in SUD Prevention and Treatment

    September 26, 2025

    While inadequate health insurance remains a primary driver of treatment gaps, numerous additional barriers contribute to the persistent inequities in substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, particularly among BIPOC communities. Understanding

    CHESS Health Partners with Arkansas to Deliver Statewide 24/7 Digital Recovery Support

    September 23, 2025

    CHESS Health launches digital recovery platform statewide in Arkansas, providing 24/7 peer support through Connections and Companion apps to address critical SUD treatment gaps.
    Learn how digital screening tools, automated referral systems, and recovery support apps help treatment centers build and retain census.

    Leveraging Digital Tools to Build & Retain Census

    September 4, 2025

    Healthcare providers face an unprecedented crisis. In 2024, 122 million Americans lived in Health Professional Shortage Areas, while HRSA projects a shortage of more than 113,000 addiction counselors in the
    The Connections app backed by peers provide benefits to members, case managers and the financial goals of health plans.

    Health Plan Improves Care with Digital SUD Support Solution

    August 29, 2025

    Case managers and peer support staff working in the health insurance industry assist clients with a wide range of conditions and chronic diseases in navigating the complexities of the healthcare
    Over his life, isolation has fed CG's addiction, but he has found recovery through daily community connection.

    Breaking the Isolation Trap: How CG Stays Connected in Recovery

    August 22, 2025

    As his children got older, CG found himself drawn back to drinking and drugs, habits he’d started as a teenager. He’d taken a bit of a break while his kids
    Mech's outpatient treatment extended into daily virtual support, providing 24/7 recovery reinforcement that led to two years clean.

    Beyond Office Hours: How Digital Tools Extended Mech’s Outpatient Recovery

    August 21, 2025

     Like many people, Mech first experimented with drugs and alcohol as a teenager in high school. From the start, he struggled with moderation, which led to serious addiction issues—cocaine, crack,
    From skeptical newcomer to daily champion: Cici1986's 288+ day journey using the Connections app religiously.

    Extending Inpatient Recovery Through Virtual Support

    August 20, 2025

    Cici1986’s introduction to alcohol began in her teen years, and it didn’t take long before it was a full-blown problem. Heavy drinking in her 20s led to a run-in with
    After 14 years of drug use threatened her family, Healer found recovery. When tragedy struck, Connections kept her strong in sobriety.

    When Job Loss and Death Hit, Connections Prevented Return to Use

    August 20, 2025

    Fourteen years of drug use had turned Healer’s world inside-out. She’d gone through a divorce, and Child Protective Services was threatening to take her children. An intensive outpatient program was
    A grandmother's journey from 14 years of hidden meth addiction to daily recovery check-ins that she says saved her life.

    From Hidden Addiction to Daily Check-Ins: Supporting MemawS’s Recovery Journey

    August 20, 2025

    For years, MemawS and her husband ran a successful small business and spent quality time with her children and grandchildren. But the couple had a secret they’d successfully hidden from

    Voices of Recovery: How Genuine Engagement Drives Clinical Outcomes

    August 18, 2025

    At CHESS Health, we know that lasting recovery doesn’t just change lives—it transforms them. Our digital recovery solutions support and simplify the work of health plans, healthcare providers, and public