Software's guiding hand: work flow technology doesn't
take over care, but rather helps clinicians avoid mistakes.(VIEWS ON
TECHN
Few people in healthcare dispute the merits of best practices.
After all, what possibly could be better than best practices? Would
anyone want to render interventions using "worst practices"?
Yet . . .
Remuda East: Milford, Virginia.(FACILITY DESIGN SHOWCASE)
Remuda Programs for Eating Disorders recently opened a second
treatment facility in Milford, Virginia, one hour northeast of Richmond.
Remuda East is a 48-bed treatment facility for women and girls . . .
Moving from good to great: how a nonprofit behavioral healthcare
organization began its transformation process.(ORGANIZATIONAL
M
How do you impose discipline on a rapidly growing organization?
Where do you start? What are the right questions to ask? And where do
you go for answers? These were questions our Leadership Team . . .
An elephant-size challenge: implementing integrated services
requires a "one bite at a time" mentality.(CO-OCCURRING
DISCORDERS)
Overcoming difficult challenges has been compared to eating an
elephant--you have to take one bite at a time if you intend to complete
the task. In our field, integrating mental health and . . .
Following the pathways to substance use treatment: a five-year
project will examine how consumers use managed behavioral health
Substance abuse negatively impacts public safety, reduces
workers' productivity, and contributes to higher healthcare costs,
premature death, and disability for millions of Americans. (1) In . . .
Giving on-the-road staff secure network access: The Menninger
Clinic's experience with virtual private network
technology.(INFOR
The Menninger Clinic was founded in 1925 as the first group
psychiatry practice in the United States, and its innovations quickly
impacted the field. The hospital has provided treatment for more . . .
Empowering consumers: a county-funded system lets consumers
define their own recovery goals.(MENTAL HEALTHCARE)
In 2004, Wisconsin created a new statute to administer
comprehensive community services for persons with severe mental illness.
The statute establishes a scope of psychosocial rehabilitation . . .
First aid for psychiatric crises: the National Council is
launching the Mental Health First Aid program.(MENTAL
HEALTHCARE)
Betty Kitchener has been a nurse and health educator for much of
her life, and she has taught more first-aid courses than she can
remember. She has helped thousands of people recognize the warning . . .
Realigning for recovery: an agency decreases costs while serving
more clients.(UTILIZATION MANAGEMENT)
During the past two years, Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health
Services (GCB) has embarked on a recovery initiative. Following the
President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health's . . .
What we can learn from Starbucks and McDonald's: both train
middle managers to be more effective leaders.(WORKFORCE
DEVELOPMENT)
What do you think is more difficult to do: manage a coffee shop,
oversee a burger joint, or supervise mental healthcare professionals? If
your answer was based on the length of training programs . . .
Pinpointing a solution: Georgia agencies form the Peachstate
Information Network to achieve common IT goals.(INFORMATION
TECHNOL
In 2001, the Cobb and Douglas Counties Community Services Boards in
Georgia built an electronic health record (EHR) system. Tod Citron, the
agency's CEO, admits that at first the endeavor was . . .
Begging for details: to be truly empowered to make their own
decisions, service users need information about their care
options.
We can't help but notice that something BIG is missing in most
of the conversations about person-centered planning and self-directed
services. The missing link is the good information people need . . .
Working together.(Editorial)
Everybody agrees that working together helps solve problems. Having
a rigid "silo" mentality doesn't allow for the scope of
vision necessary to address complex issues--and behavioral healthcare
has . . .
Medication is not a 'silver bullet': medications can
help people move toward recovery, but they should not replace
traditional a
For more than 50 years the most widely recognized approach to
treating alcoholism and other drug addictions has been the pathway that
leads to abstinence. Recognizing alcoholism and other drug . . .
Lassoing collaboration to spur change: Texas explores the
possibilities of community collaboratives.(PERSPECTIVES)
Texas is in the early phases of a very interesting community
experiment. One of nine recipients of Mental Health Transformation State
Incentive Grants from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental . . .
Process versus product: is the field focusing too much on how we
deliver services rather than on what we deliver?(PERSPECTIVES)
As a behavioral health-care executive long on experience, I
sometimes wonder whether the process of what we do is becoming more
important than the product we ultimately deliver. As leaders in . . .
Center for Life Management: Derry, New Hampshire.(FACILITY DESIGN
SHOWCASE)
In July the Center for Life Management (CLM) opened the doors of
its new two-story 28,000-square-foot facility in Derry, New Hampshire.
CLM is a comprehensive community mental health center that . . .
APRNs on the GO: advanced practice RNs play a key role in a
behavioral healthcare program reaching long-term care residents.(SEN
Established a decade ago, a unique partnership involving long-term
care (LTC) facilities and a community hospital's inpatient
psychiatric unit and outpatient services in south-central . . .
Balancing access and security: if a user walks away from a
computer for only a few seconds, the privacy of patient data can be
c
A psychiatrist notes worsening symptoms in his patient and thus
increases the dose of her SSRI medication. He documents this encounter
in his computer system, which both he and his patient assume . . .
Making the recovery model real: a behavioral health managed care
company helps peer-support programs define and evaluate their
s
Community Care, a nonprofit behavioral health managed care company
headquartered in Pittsburgh, believes in recovery. Specifically,
Community Care understands that the transformation of the . . .
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