Join this upcoming Better Care Playbook webinar, 1/23, 2 – 3:15 pm ET, to learn how a group of counties in rural Pennsylvania is applying trauma-informed care to better serve Medicaid members in 24 counties. The nearly decade-long collaboration across rural primary care and behavioral health care providers focuses on preventing re-traumatization, increasing patient engagement, and reducing unnecessary health care utilization for people with trauma histories. The webinar will explore lessons...

A trauma-informed approach to care acknowledges that health care organizations and care teams need a complete picture of a patient’s life situation — past and present — to provide effective services with a healing orientation. Trauma-informed practices hold the potential to improve patient engagement, treatment adherence, and health outcomes, as well as provider and staff wellness. Join this webinar on February 28, 2-3:30 pm ET to learn how Denver Health, a large health system in Colorado,...

Health care professionals increasingly recognize the detrimental impact of trauma on patients’ lives and health outcomes. As a result, there is burgeoning interest in the use of evidence-based trauma treatments and the delivery of trauma-informed care. Five leading complex care organizations across the country recently sought to train their staff in a variety of evidence-based trauma treatment approaches: Seeking Safety ; Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing ; and Attachment,...