National Council for Behavioral Health

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Dale Jarvis

Dale Jarvis and Associates

We began our Behavioral Health Center of Excellence Crowdsourcing Project to address the reality that we are quickly moving into a phase of healthcare reform where providers and health plans are placed into one of two buckets: Bucket 1: The work we do makes a measurable difference in people’s lives and we can demonstrate our […]

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Dale Jarvis

Dale Jarvis and Associates

Getting off on the right foot In my last blog post, I suggested that we have a healthcare system that has forgotten about the customer. Today, I am going to begin exploring the first of five behavioral health center of excellence elements – world class customer service. Last year, Carl Clark, the CEO of the […]

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Jeanne Supin

MMA Lead Faculty Member

We are hardwired against change. Our brain stem conspires to fuel our change-anxiety. The same part of our brains that likes steady heartbeats, stable body temperatures, and balanced hormones also insists we distrust others, repeat what historically brought us pleasure, stick only to our tribe, and avoid all threats (e.g., everyone and everything else, especially anyone or anything new).

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Jeannie Campbell

, National Council for Behavioral Health

As the behavioral health community continually adjusts and grows with the changing healthcare landscape, it’s critical that we come together as a field to define new universal standards for excellence. I’ve recently spent a great deal of time reflecting on the feedback and perspectives many of you shared in the National Council for Behavioral Health’s […]

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Holly Green

CEO of The Human Factor, Inc.

People in your organization are killing innovation without even knowing it. Find out how, and what you can do about it.

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Dr. Jeffrey Brenner

Executive Director of Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers

Conference ’14 Thought Leader and 2013 MacArthur fellow Jeffrey Brenner, MD — best known for his “hotspotting” concept — is creating a healthcare delivery model to meet the medical and social service needs of the most vulnerable citizens in impoverished communities. Brenner talks with the National Council on hotspotting, standardized healthcare, open access, and other disruptive changes in healthcare.

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Dale Jarvis

Dale Jarvis and Associates

Where do we start? The American healthcare system has a horrible track record in customer satisfaction, transparency, outcomes, value…wait, I better stop here or I’ll run out of room. It also has a long history of standards setting and accreditation: identify the important elements; develop specific performance measures to test adherence with those elements; assess […]

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Dale Jarvis

Dale Jarvis and Associates

In today’s healthcare environment, behavioral health centers must build relationships with high-performing specialists to support patients’ whole health. They must become specialty centers of excellence.

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Dale Jarvis

Dale Jarvis and Associates

It’s my guess that more than 90% of those reading this know that in any given year over 40 million adults experience a mental health disorder in the United States, and nearly 20 million have a substance use disorder. In addition, individuals struggling with these conditions have healthcare costs up to 3.5 times higher than […]

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