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Cover Story | Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS
As we were preparing this issue on leadership issues, I was (once again) thinking of elephants; one particular adage came to mind – when you sleep next to elephants, you can’t help but notice when they roll over. The role of leaders in the current health...
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By Jonathan Evans, Chief Executive Officer of Safe Harbor Behavioral Health
I recently had the opportunity to present What Does It Take To Be A CEO In The Current Health Care Market? at the 2012
OPEN MINDS Performance Management Institute, where
OPEN MINDS chief executive officer Monica E. Oss made a simple request: “Tell me...
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By Cory W. Thornton, Managing Editor, OPEN MINDS
Even as the health and human service industry blooms with new telehealth technology, there are continuing challenges facing some of the earlier adopters in the field. Last summer,
OPEN MINDS highlighted some of those challenges facing TeamBuilders Counseling Services of...
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By Cory W. Thornton, Managing Editor, OPEN MINDS
In the last couple of months, a very popular question at OPEN MINDS has been – what keeps Jonathan Evans up at night? After Mr. Evans, Chief Executive Officer of Safe Harbor Behavioral Health, put down some of the challenges facing leadership in the industry today...
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By Cory W. Thornton, Managing Editor, OPEN MINDS
When asked about the challenges facing the industry, Joseph F. Rutherford, OPEN MINDS Advisory Board Member and of chief executive officer of Mental Health Care, Inc. didn’t mince words. “I’ve been in behavioral health care for almost 30 years now and one particular challenge...
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By Cory W. Thornton, Managing Editor, OPEN MINDS
When OPEN MINDS asked former CEO and current OPEN MINDS senior consultant Howard Shiffman
about
the
challenges
facing
the
health
and
human
resources
industry
today,
his
answers
come
quickly
–
“Funds,
referral
agents,
rates,
licensing
rules,
lack
of
cash
in
a
lot
of...
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Lessons In Management |
By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS and Rejean Carlson President, OPEN MINDS
Managers are the people who make sure an organization works, right? So, imagine my surprise when I saw the title of a recent
Harvard Business Review podcast,
Fire All the Managers. The podcast features Gary Hamel and his piece,
First, Let's Fire All the Managers. Dr. Hamel's...
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Industry Feature |
By Tony Arredia, Director of Governmental Relations, Maryville Academy
Often times, when a new manager joins an organization, they spend a great deal of time attempting to find their place within the organizational structure. They seem to think that once they find their place, they will automatically gain some type of recognition as an established professional...
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Market Watch |
By Frances P. Allegra, Chief Executive Officer, Our Kids of Miami-Dade/Monroe, Inc.
As the Chief Executive Officer of the largest private child welfare system in Florida, one of the greatest leadership challenges that I face is working within the system itself; the challenging political environment in my state is fraught with potential pitfalls that can be both devastating and costly...
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Industry Statistics |
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
In 2005, a total of $135 billion was spent on behavioral health services in the United States. The largest shares of this spending went towards outpatient services and prescription drugs. The distribution of spending by service has shifted over time. For example, for mental health care, increased utilization of prescription drugs and decreased reliance on inpatient services...
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Industry Feature |
By Thomas R. Insel, M.D., Director, National Institute of Mental Health
Where have treatments for mental disorders come from? Over the past 50 years, innovative treatments of mental disorders have emerged from research in both public (often NIH-funded) and private (pharmaceutical and biotech) sectors. In general, publicly funded research has...
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By Richard Zwolinski and C.R. Zwolinski
More or Less? Here’s our take on a few mental health professional trends we’d like to see in 2012: more mental health and addiction treatment programs will incorporate nutrition education and other nutritional programs in their treatment of mental illness and addiction...
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Market Watch |
By Julie Caliwan, MSW Senior Associate OPEN MINDS
April was National Autism Awareness Month when we recognized the special challenges faced by those with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The Centers for Disease Control estimates that an average of one in 110 children in the U.S. have an ASD while some states have an...
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Industry Feature |
By Maggie Clark
Six years ago, Congress passed what is known as the Adam Walsh Act, aimed at protecting children from predators by collecting sex offender data in a national public registry and requiring those people listed in it to report their movements to law enforcement. Adam’s law required states to...
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Industry Feature |
By Robert A. Yourell, MA
A
prevalent
stereotype
of
trauma
victims
is
the
person
transformed
into
a
serial
killer
or
other
threat
to
society.
The
Oakland
Tribune
has
gone
over
the
top
in
reinforcing
this
stereotype
with
some
truly
awful
journalism.
They
dramatically
misinterpreted
a
highly-regarded
researcher...
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