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Diversity: It Has to Start Somewhere
We’ve all heard it before: A diverse workforce is key to providing quality services to a diverse population. More specifically, promoting staff from diverse backgrounds into leadership positions is a...
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Beyond the Bedside: Nurses In Integrated Care
This article originally appeared in National Council Magazine. As integrated care continues to advance, questions around workforce are a cause for much discussion and concern. These questions include...
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I Was a Little Fish in a Huge Pond: A Young Leader’s Story
Last year’s National Council Conference was the best professional experience I’ve had in my eight year career in behavioral health care. As a millennial still finding my way in a field continually...
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The Way We Work is Changing
This post originally appeared on DATIS’ blog and was reprinted with permission. In our current business environment- the only thing constant is change. Inevitably and irrefutably, the way we work is...
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When I was eighteen, like many young folks, I left my hometown in the coal fields of West Virginia to pursue a college degree. Energized by the prospect of being independent, meeting new people, and...
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Support Whole Health through Medical Monitoring
We know that individuals with mental health and substance use conditions are at greater risk for chronic medical conditions – such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and COPD – than the general...
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Additional Insured Endorsements: Beware of Hidden Costs
Adding an Additional Insured Endorsement to your insurance policy seems simple, but it is more complicated than you may think. This endorsement is intended to provide protection to a third party from...
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Are You Ready for Medication Assisted Treatment?
In the midst of an opioid epidemic, communities across the country face increased demands for substance use services. The CDC reports that: Young adult’s heroin use more than doubled in the past...
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GLIDING TOWARD CHANGE WITH MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING
As a figure skater, my two single blades gliding across the ice had to work together. Movement involves a series of coordinated footwork, choreographed to counterbalance each jump, spin and curve along...
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Avoid the pitfalls of insuring physicians
If you and I could talk, I would tell you that physician coverage for behavioral health care or social services organizations might just be the most important coverage. Yet, many carriers include...
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Does your organization use text messaging?
Text messaging is a fast, relatively inexpensive way to engage under-served populations and to connect patients with 24/7 access to health tips and treatment options. It can change the ways clinicians...
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Deep-Rooted Issues Require Deep Provider Investment
How Does the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless Do It? Extreme trauma is commonplace at the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, a Denver-based nonprofit provider organization that provides integrated...
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8 Resolutions to Plan for Change
I’m a planner. As the year end approaches, you may, like me, already be thinking about your 2016 resolutions. Many of us strive to do better each year in our service to others or to focus on our health...
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Don’t Forget to Celebrate Your Employees this Holiday Season
Between decking the halls, parties and last minute shopping, it’s easy to forget that the holidays are a time to celebrate the year’s successes and reflect on plans for the New Year. It’s a time to...
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Questions
It’s 6:30 am when my alarm goes off. I get up to enjoy the morning quiet and play out the day ahead. This morning, I reflect on the upcoming senior leadership meeting. As I consider those I’ll see...
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Achieving Harmony: The Power of Peer Support in Whole Health Action Management
Solo artists make it look easy, but playing music isn’t a one-person show. Artists from Bob Dylan to George Michael to Britney Spears to Justin Bieber all depend on the efforts of professional...
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What are the Workplace Wellness Strategies of Behavioral Health Executives?
Workplace wellness is a buzz phrase. But what does it mean? And why does it matter? Believe it or not, workplace wellness has been around long before World War I. In 1880, the National Cash Register...
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The CCBHC Heroes You Didn’t Even Know You Had
Here’s a question every soon-to-be Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) should be asking itself: “Who is going to lead as our organization adapts to new ways of doing business?” CCBHC...
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Everything’s Bigger in Texas, Including Lassoing Tobacco Use
American adults with mental illnesses smoked about a third of the 264 billion cigarettes sold in 2015, according to a recent report. For Texas’ behavioral health treatment organizations, this was a...
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