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Stanford School of Medicine's WellMD Center offers a variety of tools and resources linked through their Stress and Burnout resource page; including articles, signs and symptoms, and self-tests for stress, PTSD, anxiety and more.
Written by Dr. Judy Berry, this booklet provides an overview of challenges faced by caring professionals related to stress nad burnout, and offers solutions for dealing with stress in a healthy manner.
The first-ever Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health reviews what we know about substance misuse and how you can use that knowledge to address substance misuse and related consequences - download the full report or the Executive Summary. Access the National Council for Behavioral Health's Toolkit for the Surgeon General’s Report on Addiction here.
Oregon Pain Guidance (OPG) is a group of healthcare providers from Jackson and Josephine Counties in Southern Oregon, who are working together on standardizing community guidelines and best practices for treating patients with chronic pain. This website provides educational information, news, community resources and upcoming events for both the public and healthcare providers.
This link offers a large behavioral health centered resource collection that focuses on resilience - or the ability of a person, family, organization, or community to cope with and adapt to challenges or setbacks. Topics covered include: the concept of resilience and how to enhance resilience, stress and stress management, and guidance on stress management for individuals, children and youth, families, workers, people under financial stress, and others.
The Dialogue is a quarterly technical assistance journal on disaster behavioral health which is produced by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Disaster Technical Assistance Center (DTAC). This issue covers stress management and self-care topics for those in the disaster response and recovery field and beyond, with a focus on modeling healthy stress management.
Please join Q Corp staff for a monthly orientation to the resources available to primary care practices and other stakeholders through the Patient-Centered Primary Care Institute. This 30 minute orientation is limited to up to 20 participants each session, and is an ideal welcome for people who are new to their positions within primary care transformation.
Patients and clinicians have many complicated decisions to make, but information is often unclear or inaccessible. OHSU’s Center for Evidence-based Policy, in collaboration with the OHA Transformation Center, created an online resource for the use of patient decision support tools.
Patients and clinicians have many complicated decisions to make, but information is often unclear or inaccessible. Patient decision support tools aid in making evidence-based and value-congruent decisions in the face of uncertainty and facilitate conversations between patients and their providers. Oregon Health & Science University’s Center for Evidence-based Policy, in collaboration with the Oregon Health Authority Transformation Center, have created an online resource for the use of patient decision support tools - learn more about the new Decision Support Toolkit.
The updated Tri-County Behavioral Health Providers Association (TCBHPA) Directory, located in PDF on the right side of their webpage, provides information on the current TCBHPA members and their services. Members include providers of all sizes that specialize in providing access to healthcare for all children, youth and adults with mental health, addiction and culturally specific needs.
Physicians and hospital staff often ignore hospital policies on using qualified interpreters, typically because of time pressures, lack of knowledge about the availability of interpreters or procedural difficulties in arranging for them.
A guide to developing reminder systems for immunizations and preventive services. Includes recommendations for both patient reminder systems and provider reminder systems.
This tipsheet explains the Patient Electronic Access objective from both Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the EHR Incentive Programs.
Video describing the Model for Improvement as a quality improvement framework.
In the midst of the opioid epidemic, communities across the country face increased demands for prevention and substance use services. This page from the National Council for Behavioral Health offers a series of Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) for Opioid Use Disorders video interviews, webinars and other resources for clinics looking to utilize evidence-based practices such as MAT.
The Clinician Academy is a networking and training program for primary care clinicians, to advance their role as community advocates and leaders. Specifically, participants will be provided with tools and resources ("Academy Toolkit") to plan and conduct a project that enhances primary care by establishing or strengthening connections with the broader community.
Altogether, the Academy is a three month program, with a variety of components.
Who are the Change Management (CM) practitioners in an organization? Like the definition of what change management is, this answer is varied...
This survey is used by The Institute For Behavioral Health Integration to establish a three-dimensional baseline of a primary care practice's capability to integrate behavioral health services into its manner of caring for clients. There are six sections to the survey, each of which consists of 10-20 benchmarks: Strategic Alignment; Business Model; Clinical Operations and Services; Skills; Infrastructure; and Risk Management.
Oregon NurseCast is a podcast series designed to celebrate innovative, promising practices relevant to nursing in Oregon by providing tools and resources to facilitate the professional practice of nursing. Listen as Judy Ulibarri, BSN, RN, HWNC-BC, Integrative Nurse Coach at Be Your Best Self and the Portland VA Medical Center talks about the importance of self-care for nurses and local nurse renewal programs and initiatives.
Clinicians are often the first to see the contributors to and consequences of poor health behaviors. Thinking of ways to help our communities address these issues can be of great importance and contribute to a sense of meaning within the community.
This resource guide provides a framework for integrating comprehensive medication management within the medical home.
Medication reconciliation is a complex process that impacts all patients as they move through all health care settings. This toolkit incorporates experiences and lessons learned by health care facilities that have improved their medication reconciliation processes.
Research findings from PSU team demonstrate that the PCPCH program has achieved noteworthy indicators of progress toward accomplishment of the Triple Aim in only a few years of operation.
PCPCH Evaluation Team: Sherril Gelmon, DrPH; Neal Wallace, PhD; Billie Sandberg, PhD; Shauna Petchel, MPH; and Nicole Bouranis, MA
Reporting & Surveillance Resources for Enrolled Facilities.
Partner with communities and clinics to increase access to diabetes self-management education.
