Behavioral Health Management articles from May 1998

Behavioral Health Management archives from May 1998

What are "best practices," anyway?(Editorial)
May 1, 1998... In the midst of mergers and heightened competition, executives in the behavioral health field are searching for the "holy grail" of better mental health treatment outcomes for less money. The constant (and probably pretty accurate) refrain is...

Does your board lead or follow?
May 1, 1998... When the words "organizational leadership" come up, people think frequently of the executive director or CEO, or perhaps their upper managers. This is leadership, of that there is no doubt. But it is not and should not be the total picture of...

Do rapists belong in mental hospitals?
May 1, 1998... In 1982 Donald Gideon was convicted of rape. He had been on parole less than a year when he was tried for the 1993 murder of a college student in the course of another sexual assault. In response to Gideon's second conviction, Kansas...

Management strategies: lessons from the retail trade; behavioral healthcare can learn from the Walmarts of the world - but only so much.(Cover Story)
May 1, 1998... Behavioral healthcare can learn from the Walmarts of the world--but only so much Behavioral healthcare managers can learn a lot from the experience and strategies of managers in other parts of the economic sector. However, in borrowing...

Magellan Behavioral Health: is big better?(Interview)(Cover Story)
May 1, 1998... A year ago three of the four biggest players in managed behavioral healthcare were Merit Behavioral Care, Human Affairs International and Green Springs Health Services. Today they are all under the same corporate umbrella--Magellan Health...

NAMI's nine measures of MBHO success: AMBHA perspectives: AMBHA's official response to the NAMI report card. (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, managed behavioral healthcare organizations, American Managed Behaviroal Healthcare Association)(Cover Story)
May 1, 1998... As a follow-up to the nine measures of success for managed behavioral healthcare organizations (MBHOs), as suggested by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), the American Managed Behavioral Healthcare Association (AMBHA) offers...

Exemplary behavioral health managers.(Cover Story)
May 1, 1998... Management, in the last analysis, is about people. While some people do "jobs," working with whatever data, tools or equipment those entail, managers work with the people who do the jobs. And the good managers are known as such by people both...

Strategies to preserve public-private partnership "best practices."(Cover Story)
May 1, 1998... Traditionally, managed care has utilized "medical necessity criteria" in order to justify fitting the consumer to the treatment. In the "new" generation of managed care, the behavioral health field must meet the challenge of providing services...

Rewarding performance and excellence.
May 1, 1998... Over the past decade, delivery of behavioral health services in the U.S. has undergone dramatic change. Most notable is the use of managed care models for the financing and delivery of service. This change has affected service delivery at the...

Gleaning from the big meeting.
May 1, 1998... If you think that clear guidelines for the future emerged from the 10th Annual National Managed Health Care Congress, well.... "There is a lot of wisdom in this world; unfortunately, it was given to people." This Chinese proverb cited by...