Warm Hand-Off Drug and Alcohol Help in the Reading Hospital Emergency Room
Berks TASC, the Treatment Access and Services Center, runs a Warm Hand-Off Program inside the Tower Health Reading Hospital Emergency Department that connects people with drug and alcohol treatment right from the emergency room. Working together with the hospital's emergency department, TASC provides drug and alcohol intervention services to opiate overdose survivors, patients in opiate withdrawal, and patients using all other substances.
The help is for any patient who wants it. TASC coordinates detoxification and residential treatment admissions, and makes referrals for Medically Assisted Treatment, also called MAT, and for outpatient treatment.
These intervention services occur directly from the Tower Health Reading Hospital Emergency Department on a 24/7 basis. The Warm Handoff Office number, 484-628-3421, is listed as 24/7. The Warm Handoff Program Supervisor is John Janiszewski, Monday through Friday, 7am to 3pm, at 610-816-4759 or johnj@berkstasc.org.
The Berks TASC main office is at 640 Walnut Street, Suite 101, Reading, PA 19601. Its general-questions number is 610-375-4426, and the office is open 8 AM to 4 PM Monday to Friday.
The page does not say what the program costs, what to bring, or how a person outside the emergency department enters the program, so ask when you make contact.
Source: berkstasc.org/warm-hand-off-program, read September 18, 2026.
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In Treatment Access and Services Center’s words
In conjunction with Tower Health Reading Hospital Emergency Department, TASC provides Drug and Alcohol intervention services to opiate overdose survivors, patients in opiate withdrawal, and patients using all other substances. These intervention services occur directly from Tower Health Reading Hospital Emergency Department on a 24/7 basis. TASC coordinates detoxification and residential treatment admissions, and Medically Assisted Treatment (MAT) and Outpatient Treatment referrals for any…
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