Our Behavioral Health Blog: Insights & Expertise
The Horizon Health blog features insights and expertise from a variety of behavioral and mental health professionals from within our organization and beyond. Rich with information, we hope this mental healthcare blog becomes one of your go-to resources.
Is Patient Satisfaction Related to Diagnosis?
May 1, 2020
With so much emphasis on drivers of patient satisfaction within a facility’s control, a common question MHO receives is whether patient characteristics are influencing satisfaction. This month, MHO examines the relationship between diagnosis and patient satisfaction.
Opportunities to be Found
Apr 21, 2020
These days Mental Health has taken on a whole other meaning as COVID-19 has changed the rhythm of our daily lives—Just. Like. That! With little preparation, life as we knew it was cancelled and substituted by a stay-at-home, shelter-in-place ...
First Impressions Matter
Apr 3, 2020
Participating in step-down outpatient care following an inpatient stay is important for maintaining gains made during the inpatient stay. This month, MHO takes a look at how patient satisfaction may be able to help boost the number of ...
Superstitious: To Be, or Not To Be
Mar 17, 2020
Credit: Michael Meier Find a penny pick it up, the rest the day you’ll have good luck. What are some of my crazy superstitions? Wearing my shamrock pants for a Notre Dame football game; taking a nap and having ...
Winter Blues: Is There Really Such a Thing?
Feb 29, 2020
Depression severity does not seem to be impacted by seasonality and instead varies by demographics. Outcomes data clearly show facilities can help patients resolve to take care of themselves whether snow, rain, sleet or shine! ...
Wisdom and Connection: Meaningful Deterrents to Loneliness
Feb 15, 2020
Let’s be wise and let’s connect! It will make all the difference in our physical and mental health and undoubtedly enrich our lives and the lives of those with which we are connected, helping us all to keep loneliness to ...
Social Determinants of Health
Jan 31, 2020
It is generally accepted that a hospital’s case mix influences their outcomes, so what’s influencing case mix? In this month’s Analytics in Action, MHO investigates the impact of social determinants in a hospital’s surrounding community on the hospital’s ...
Get Your Curiosity On!
Jan 15, 2020
What might happen if we unleashed a curious mindset on healthcare quality? Curiosity is that strong desire to know or learn something. A significant number of caregivers are not asking deeper questions. We are not seeking to generate genuine ...
Insights for a topped out Quality Measure-Admission of Behavioral Health Patients
Dec 31, 2019
Inpatient screening practices within the first 3 days of admission for 5 components are reported by facilities participating in TJC’s Hospital Based Inpatient Psychiatric Services (HBIPS). Because many facilities do well on this quality measure (HBIPS-1), it is ...
Who’s Ready for the Survey?
Dec 15, 2019
Yumi Mini/Thinkstock It seems every week I am hearing that a unit is in survey and the surveyors are taking no prisoners. My answer to a successful survey is, and always will be, PREPARATION. Being prepared for survey is not ...
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