As the number of overdose deaths continue to climb, one would think that every addiction treatment center in the United States would be busting at the seams. Instead, many centers are fighting for survival, and far too many are losing the battle.
Now that many state licensing organizations have joined the Joint Commission in requiring treatment programs to use patient-reported feedback to inform clinical care, centers are exploring a variety of different options. Should you consider building your own?
Because behavioral health care is so far behind other areas of health care in using data to measure treatment effectiveness, excellent treatment programs have no way to differentiate themselves from those with mediocre outcomes. It is time for this to change.
The behavioral health care industry has been far behind other areas of health care in using patient-reported data to improve treatment results. But 2018 is the year this is going to change!
Many treatment programs incorrectly believe they’re already in compliance with the Joint Commission's outcome measures standard going into effect on January 1, 2018.
A residential substance use disorder treatment facility decided to start using Progress Monitoring to quantify the effectiveness of its treatment. In addition to achieving its objective, the research helped the center improve its treatment of patients with depression and eating disorders.
