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You know the old joke, which came first, the chicken or the egg? That’s how I view integrated care and my career. While the integrated care label may be dominating headlines — with providers across the continuum talking about treating the “whole person” — I think that my career has targeted an integrated approach from day one.
Great leaders know how to hire and inspire great people. No one knows better than a behavior analyst how complicated people are and how important it is to create the right environment and stimuli for people to achieve their best. Through my more than 20 years of experience leading people, I have learned about 3 specific areas that can make a difference. First, it’s important to have good...
Value-based reimbursement is not new for healthcare. With more and more payments tied to performance and outcomes, Medicare is proposing that 90% of their reimbursements will be tied in some way to quality by the end of this year.
This blog was first posted in November 2017. We are reposting an updated version here in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month.
In 1994, P. Forte and the Centre for Health Planning and Management at Keele University stated that despite “vast quantities of data [being collected] daily,” data from “areas which focus on…the planning, management or service delivery functions” was “neither directly useful nor immediately accessible to provide supporting information.” The report goes on, claiming that “issues of capacity...
Author’s Note: In the blog post that follows, we discussed the Netflix show, “13 Reasons Why,” and the impact it had on children and adolescents. There is some controversy among experts in the behavioral health and education fields who work with children, youth, and families. Netflix recently announced the release date of season two (end of May 2018), and this has triggered another round of...
If you are leading in a growing agency, it’s important to have financial discipline in order to assure that you have smooth operations. In particular, having good reporting in place to measure profitability and cash flow is crucial to planning for your future. The adage in business is true: “If you don’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” Financial discipline starts with good planning,...
The complex state of 21st century healthcare has created a growing need for a new description of behaviors expected from nurse leaders.
In trauma care, protocol is paramount. Guidelines are published and regularly updated from the World Health Organization, The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, The Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, and more. When a trauma patient arrives, it is common for the code team to begin utilizing pneumonics, acronyms, and checklists to spring into action.
The capacity to watch over and guard the well-being of others is an important gift, and one that is learned with great difficulty. For it is one thing to see the situation others are in, but it is quite another to care enough about them to want to help, and yet another to know what to do. —Judie Bopp, Director of Four Worlds Centre for Development Learning
