A Performance-Driven Culture in a Children’s Mental Health Agency

• By: Andrew Malekoff, LCSW, CASAC North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center
• October 1st, 2018
• children's mental health, continuous quality improvement, data collection, evidence-based practices, outcome measurement, performance-driven culture, team-based care, treatment engagement
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Developing a performance-driven culture in the children’s mental health system is a complex process that includes engaging, assessing, treatment planning, gathering data, measuring outcomes, and evaluating and continually improving care. Although evidence-based practice (EBP) has become a...

The New Normal: How We Learned to Love and Understand Data

• By: Elisa Chow, PhD Institute for Community Living (ICL)
• April 1st, 2017
• behavioral health outcomes, care quality improvement, data-driven decision making, electronic health records, health data analytics, Medicaid managed care, outcome measurement, value-based care
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Data. The world today is all about data. With the transformation of the Medicaid payment system into a more value-based approach, the need for understanding data has taken a higher priority at many agencies, including ICL. Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) are making arrangements with agencies that...