Relias

APRIL 18, 2025

Patient experience trends for 2025 and beyond As healthcare evolves, patient experience remains at the forefront of delivering quality care. Personalized care and tailored engagement : Creating customized healthcare experiences that resonate with individual patients. Regulatory changes : Greater emphasis on patient experience metrics.

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Healthcare Telehealth Treatment Planning Communication 40

Relias

MARCH 9, 2025

As we observe Patient Safety Week, I am excited to bring focus to technology that has been making a difference in healthcare: virtual reality (VR) for infection prevention and control (IPC). Studies have shown that these learning modalities dont always translate knowledge acquisition into consistent clinical practice.

Patient Safety 40

Patient Safety Healthcare Hospitals Engagement 40

Relias

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

While value-based contracts are widely used in other healthcare fields, their application in behavioral health is far from universal. At the heart of the issue is the history of payers undervaluing mental and behavioral healthcare. Know what is “in it for them.” What does your agency collectively excel in and care about most?

Adoption 52

Adoption Healthcare Diversity Psychology 52

Relias

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

According to the Relias 2023 S tate of Healthcare Training and Staff Development Report , 68% of managers in the post-acute-care sector reported that their current staff development and training program has a “major” or “significant” impact on achieving their organization’s top business goals.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Clinic Therapist Administration 52

Relias

JANUARY 11, 2023

Healthcare organizations in the U.S. Conversely, they observed that the healthcare industry has not benefited from free-market competition because competition has been happening in the wrong places. More healthcare organizations are now tying physician compensation to quality performance metrics, up from 26% in 2016 to 42% in 2021.

Medicare 52

Medicare Healthcare Medicaid Hospitals 52

Relias

JANUARY 19, 2024

Every year, healthcare organizations spend billions on regulatory compliance. Despite the increased focus on compliance, only 48% of post-acute care organizations use a learning management system to track staff training, according to the Relias 2023 State of Healthcare Training and Staff Development Report.

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Nursing Home Hospitals Healthcare 52

Relias

APRIL 28, 2023

A trauma-informed approach to birth trauma To help your clients cope with and overcome the effects of birth trauma, it’s important that your organization adopt a trauma-informed approach to care. The goal of trauma-informed care (TIC) is to prevent traumatization, or re-traumatization.

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PTSD Psychology Adoption Clinic 52

Relias

MAY 8, 2023

For healthcare organizations of all kinds, becoming trauma-informed has never been more important. This means your organization will not simply tell staff, “We’re adopting TIC.” What does it mean to be trauma-informed? Once they understand its benefits, leaders and administrators can act as promoters of this model.

Administration 52

Administration Clinic Communication Psychology 52

Relias

MAY 25, 2022

When this happens and a client experiences a crisis, DSPs must know how to remain calm and work with their client as well as other healthcare professionals and emergency response personnel. Any learning solution you adopt needs to help improve the clinical performance of your staff.

Interventional 52

Interventional Crisis Intervention Hospitals Self-harm 52

Community Care

APRIL 7, 2022

Children and young people’s mental health services need radical reform, they’re too rooted in clinical diagnostics, adrift from the child-centred, whole family and relationships-based working that is increasingly the norm in wider services for children and too adrift from other community-based services such as ours,” he said.

Social Worker 55

Social Worker Government Mental Health Schools 55

Relias

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Healthcare organizations have been using a quality improvement framework consisting of six attributes — safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable — for decades. But new research has expanded the framework to include elements that address more recent challenges in healthcare and in society.

Healthcare 98

Healthcare Self-harm Clinic Psychology 98

Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

The four companies include three profit making corporations (United Health Services, Acadia Healthcare, and Vivant Behavioral Healthcare), and one nonprofit, Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health. percent of children in “congregate care” had no clinical diagnoses.

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Foster Care Interventional Child Welfare Medicaid 147

Relias

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

While most healthcare organizations have eight-hour shifts, many hospitals have relied on 12-hour shifts since the 1970s. There are distinct advantages and disadvantages associated with both eight- and 12-hour shifts, and healthcare administrators have yet to come to a consensus on whether one is inherently better than the other.

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Hospitals Healthcare Administration 52

Relias

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Medical errors are a healthcare professional’s worst nightmare. If designed and deployed effectively, safety protocols empower healthcare administrators to learn from past mistakes, minimize errors, improve the reliability of their medical staff — and most importantly — reduce patient mortality rates.

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Self-harm Healthcare Administration 52

Relias

JULY 14, 2023

Recent research and reporting indicate that maternal mortality prevention depends on simultaneously addressing three overlapping areas — clinical, social, and behavioral. mothers have access to a very high standard of clinical care, social factors prevent many others from accessing even the minimum level of care they need.

Clinic 52

Clinic Mental Health Domestic Violence Healthcare 52

Social Work Blog

MAY 6, 2022

The complete policy statement can be found in the 12th edition of Social Work Speaks, which is a comprehensive and unabridged collection of policies adopted and revised by the NASW Delegate Assembly. This edition includes updated policy statements on a wide range of topics, including mental health, human rights, and healthcare.

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Mental Health Administration Interventional Substance Abuse 105

Relias

JULY 20, 2023

It is important to focus on clinical protocols and reduction in practice variation. But it’s also important to adopt a holistic view of the maternal healthcare experience. Both clinical and behavioral factors contribute to maternal health outcomes.

Hospitals 40

Hospitals Medicaid Mental Health Medicare 40