Relias

AUGUST 22, 2022

While these tools are exciting, helpful, and often elevate the quality of care provided, it can be intimidating at times to adopt new methods of doing your job. Today’s healthcare consumer knows more about medications, treatment options, and best practices. Learning how to learn. It’s hard being a human services worker.

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Human Services Healthcare Child Welfare Interventional 105

KVC

JUNE 13, 2023

These stories came from youth and families we’ve served, foster or adoptive families who support our mission, and KVC team members who provide in-home family therapy and support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s mental health treatment and other life-changing services.

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Foster Care Mental Health Adoption Addiction 52

Relias

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Today’s healthcare leaders continuously face the challenge of meeting high expectations and adapting to change. With staff retention currently as a top priority for many healthcare organizations, the connection between strong leadership and retaining employees is clear.

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Patient Safety Healthcare Hospitals Adoption 98

KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. In 2003, to bring our name in line with the scope of our work, Kaw Valley Center became simply KVC Behavioral Healthcare.

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Child Welfare Healthcare Welfare Mental Health 98

KVC

JULY 20, 2021

Or, if you’re not looking for services, learn how you can join KVC as an advocate, volunteer, financial supporter, event sponsor, foster or adoptive parent, or even team member. KVC Hospitals is accredited by The Joint Commission and considered the gold standard in healthcare.

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Child Welfare Mental Health Welfare Psychiatric 98

Social Work Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

The 13th edition of Social Work Speaks is a comprehensive and unabridged collection of policies, including those adopted and revised by the NASW Delegate Assembly in 2024. The Delegate Assembly, NASWs key policymaking body, meets every three years.

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Relias

MARCH 13, 2025

Their report made clear that nurse leaders are critical to meeting the evolving demands of healthcare. The COVID-19 pandemic placed extreme stress on healthcare systems, leading to workforce shortages, increased patient complexity, and evolving care models. While progress has been made, there is still much work to do.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The companies that prioritize this are left with employees who adopt the culture of learning and development, which ultimately leads to a growth mindset.” By adopting a culture of learning, you not only improve staff retention but also create quality outcomes for your residents, giving you a competitive edge in the market.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. It is called the Foster Care Adoption Resource Services, Training and Consultation (FCARSTC) program.

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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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Relias

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Though the COVID-19 pandemic is waning, the changes it brought to healthcare persist. It’s when organizations are adaptable and trauma-informed and adopt a culture that fosters resilience within their staff. What is organizational resilience? Organizational resilience is the ability of an organization to weather hard times.

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Self-harm PTSD Mental Health Communication 90

Relias

DECEMBER 4, 2023

DiClemente, this model has become a cornerstone in health psychology and is widely used in healthcare and wellness programs. By acknowledging and respecting the client’s current stage, behavioral health professionals can adopt appropriate communication strategies. Developed by James O. Prochaska and Carlo C.

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KVC

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This includes donors, volunteers, advocates, partner organizations, kinship families, resource families including foster and adoptive parents, youth and adult clients, and KVC team members nationwide. Anyone who cares about child and family wellbeing is encouraged to attend! Learn more about this special event!

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Community Care

MARCH 17, 2025

Lord Meston (crossbench) tabled an amendment which adopted the MCAs functional test but without the need to consider if the inability to make the decision is caused by an impairment of or disturbance in the mind/brain. Consequently, she argued, children may not benefit from the reforms in the bill that depend on competency.

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Mental Health Disability Hospitals Government 53

Relias

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Unlike traditional healthcare models that often focus on specific conditions, Whole Health looks at the entire person — body, mind, and spirit. The Whole Health approach encourages Veterans to reflect on what is most important to them and to work with their healthcare team to create a personalized plan that supports their overall well-being.

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Relias

MAY 21, 2024

Building a trauma-informed organization and practice After integrating a trauma-informed approach into your own work, you may be ready to help others adopt this approach. Trauma-informed care aligns with the healthcare motto, “do no harm.” Where possible, integrate the six principles of trauma-informed care into each area.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The landscape of obstetric care is evolving rapidly, but not always in ways that benefit healthcare providers. This trend is not just alarming; it’s a call to action for healthcare providers and institutions to reassess their practices. Adopt high-reliability practices Building a culture of high reliability is crucial.

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Patient Safety Healthcare Communication Hospitals 52

KVC

JULY 16, 2023

This means KVC is outperforming its peers in child welfare and mental health, its peers in healthcare more broadly, and even most for-profit companies across all sectors. As of July 2023, KVC Health Systems ranks High or Above Average in 14 of the 15 categories.

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Relias

MARCH 15, 2022

In Relias’ latest State of Healthcare Training and Staff Development Report , we explored how these changes are affecting training in healthcare. One of the biggest takeaways from this research is the reason healthcare leaders view training as important. How Training in Healthcare Supports Business Goals.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Organizations adopt care coordination to improve health outcomes and reduce the financial cost of treatments by streamlining care delivery and reducing or eliminating redundancies in care. They take an active stance in managing the utilization of client healthcare services and in improving client outcomes. What is care coordination?

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Healthcare Communication Medicaid Hospitals 52

Relias

MAY 2, 2022

The overarching reason for the creation of 988 is to increase access to mental healthcare nationwide. Here, however, we’ll focus on two larger processes to adopt: developing a cross-system response and integrating the new crisis response system into your larger mental health services. The Reasons for 988.

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KVC

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Meet Children Who Need Loving, Adoptive Forever Families. BreAnna, Taniya, Lexi and A’Jaun are children who need adoptive families to provide them with safety, a sense of belonging and unconditional love. Read it now. Could you be the person that will provide them a permanent home?

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Psychiatric Foster Care Hospitals Adoption 52

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?

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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.

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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). Unlike conventional training methods, VR allows healthcare professionals to practice in simulated clinical environments, but without risk to patients.

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Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

Currently kinship care is wedged uncomfortably into systems designed primarily for fostering and adoption and is often the poor relation in a hierarchy of rights and support.” But it also means we need specialist kinship care teams – on a par with current looked-after children’s teams and adoption support teams.

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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.

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Patient Safety Nursing Home Hospitals Healthcare 52

KVC

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Once they age out of the foster care system, these youth are also at a higher risk for homelessness, lack of education, unemployment, lack of access to healthcare, problems with law enforcement, and a myriad of behavioral and social issues. Simply log in with your Amazon credentials and select KVC Behavioral HealthCare Inc.

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Foster Care Child Welfare Healthcare Schools 95

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.

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Relias

AUGUST 23, 2022

In order to take care of your staff, it’s important to adopt a trauma-informed care approach within your own organization. By making it easier for staff to get the mental healthcare they need, you can create a better culture, reduce turnover, and more. What is trauma? Trauma is always defined by the individual.

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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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Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The network said that some delays in the process were the result of AMHPs, rightly, exploring alternatives to detention for the person, in line with the MHA code of practice’s principle of adopting the “least restrictive” option of care. “With around 1.6m

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Mental Health Hospitals Government Healthcare 65

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? To begin, educate leaders and administrators on what the TIC framework entails and how to apply it.

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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.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2024

As part of the efforts to move healthcare into local communities and professionalise the workforce, we will task regulators with assessing the role social care workers can play in basic health treatment and monitoring. . “Labour is committed to ensuring families have the support they need.

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Relias

JANUARY 12, 2022

Organizations that do not adopt a culture of learning often see higher rates of employee turnover, lower client numbers, and other negative outcomes. In our 2021 State of Healthcare Training and Staff Development Report , just 48% of human services leaders stated that staff development and training programs have an effect on staff retention.

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Human Services Engagement Healthcare Adoption 52

KVC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Due to inadequate foster care prevention spending on concrete supports like temporary food or housing assistance and a lack of access to mental and physical healthcare, many states far exceed the national rate of children in foster care. We must go “upstream” to strengthen families and prevent children from needing foster care.

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