Opioid abuse prevention in patients with chronic pain has been an issue for many years. Some effective strategies have been found to lower the risk of patients over-using opioids during pain management, however. We’ve outlined some of the most effective strategies to help you prevent substance abuse of opioids by your own chronic pain patients. […]
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Adolescent Mental Health Tips for Caregivers
Providing adolescent mental health tips for parents or caregivers can help beyond a doctor or therapy visit. Experts are calling for policy changes as a solution to the adolescent mental health crisis, but proper care in the home can also truly make a difference. As a part of meeting your adolescent patients’ or clients’ needs, […]
Read MoreTips to Support Employee Mental Health
A huge trend in workplace management has become to find ways to support employee mental health while on the job. Healthcare workers’ mental health has taken quite a toll since the COVID 19 pandemic took the world by storm almost 2 full years ago. They’ve been overworked and sometimes underappreciated, which leads to burnout. It’s […]
Read MoreJonathan Strange Hired as Patagonia Health’s Clinical Director
Patagonia Health, a leading Electronic Health Record (EHR) software company, has launched a Behavioral Health Team (BHT) to provide new and existing customers with personalized support and customer experience to ensure efficiency, growth, and accountability. The team members have a combined 40+ years of behavioral healthcare organizational management, technology, and clinical expertise. One of the […]
Read MoreTraumatic Stress: Protecting Health Staff
For health leaders to best support their staff and community members, efforts can be made towards becoming a trauma-informed organization with focus on supporting resilience and healing and protecting healthcare staff from traumatic stress. Healthcare practitioners have carried a particularly heavy burden being on the front lines of emergency response efforts of COVID-19 while seeing their […]
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