Outpatient Intravenous Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT)

If you need antimicrobial therapy for an infectious disease, our goal is to ensure the best health outcome while minimizing or avoiding a hospital stay altogether. 

Your OPAT team will include physicians, nurse practitioners and coordinators who work closely with your broader care team to ensure you get the correct antimicrobial treatment and appropriate in-person and laboratory monitoring. We’ll create a personalized treatment plan to address your infection while also considering your daily life and needs. By monitoring your long-term care plan, we can evaluate your progress and provide any additional treatments as necessary.

Depending on the care you need, we will coordinate with: 

• Dialysis and infusion therapy staff
• Home care + visiting nurse
• Home infusion company
• Rehabilitation and skilled nursing facility

Through OPAT we also provide treatment if you:  

• Inject drugs: Our infectious disease experts work side-by-side with experts in addiction medicine. If you are in OPAT, you may be able to receive care for opioid use disorder during the same appointment. 
• Need to treat or prevent HIV: Treating or preventing HIV infection using long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapies can be administered at home. 
• Need support for an organ transplant: We can treat you either before and after your liquid or solid organ transplant if you need parenteral and certain oral antimicrobial medications.