Description
Getting Started
"Case 4: Middleboro Community Mental Health Center" provides mental health services and programs to the population of Hillsboro County. This week’s assignment addresses elements from your previous course work in health issues, healthcare technology, and information management. It is designed to assess your competence in identifying problems and opportunities, critical thinking, knowledge of the community and the environment, and information management, all of which are competencies identified by employers and recognized by the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).
Upon successful completion of the course material, you will be able to:
- Define problems and opportunities within the community’s healthcare delivery environment.
- Support a commitment to Christ-like character in healthcare industry interactions.
- Assess the strategic value of technology to provide healthcare services.
- Develop a proposal to address a current health issue.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and analysis of information relevant to the community’s healthcare delivery environment.
Resources
- Textbook: The Middleboro Casebook: Healthcare Strategy and Operations
- Website: OCLS
Background Information
Healthcare organizations today are faced with a multitude of strategic opportunities. Sometimes these opportunities come about through changes in technology, other times through demands placed on the healthcare system from the community. Middleboro Community Mental Health Center is faced with two such strategic opportunities. Your job is to guide the organization in making the appropriate strategic decisions.
Instructions
- Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
- Read "Case 4: Middleboro Community Mental Health Center" in the textbook.
- Address the following questions and provide appropriate quantitative justification to support your conclusions and recommendations (this should be one to two pages in length and adhere to proper APA form).
- Using innovative technologies to provide services has been demonstrated elsewhere. Describe how telebehavioral health has been used, and assess it as a potential addition to the services of our agency.
- What are its costs and benefits?
- Should our agency potentially adopt this approach?
- Develop a three to five page draft of a white paper proposing programs and services to begin to address the opiate crisis in Hillsboro County.
- The draft should include an assessment of need, as well as the elements of an integrated approach to addressing the problem.
- The programmatic approach should be realistic and achievable, be financially sustainable, have measurable outcomes, and (hopefully) involve the best collaborative efforts of the many community stakeholders (e.g., MCMHC, schools, healthcare providers, social service organizations).
- The proposal should demonstrate a commitment to Christ-like character by the organization.
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Explanation & Answer
Your assignment is complete.
Running head: TELEBEHAVIORAL HEALTH
Telebehavioral Health
Students Name
Institution Name
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TELEBEHAVIORAL HEALTH
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Telebehavioral health has been defined as the process of observing the behavior of a given
subject through online technologies. Telebehavioral health can, therefore, take various forms that
include online therapy through chat functions and video conferencing. Telebehavioral health has
been used as a core strategy by policymakers to increase access to essential behavioral health
services and reduce gaps. Among the numerous strategic opportunities faced by healthcare
organizations, Telebehavioral health falls under changes in technology. The Middleboro
Community Mental Health Center provides mental health services and programs hence in a bid
to reduce the gap and increase access to essential health services. Since the Middleboro
Community, Mental Health Center has the primary duty of providing mental health services.
Telebehavioral health will be a great addition of technology into the services provided by the
organization. As a state designed facility MCMHC has the primary duty of providing numerous
services that include emergency services and community-based rehabilitation. Technology can,
therefore, be used to improve services, and since its foundation back in 1964, MCMHC has
constantly improved its services and programs, as stated in its mission statement. Telebehavioral
health is a technological innovation that would be of value since it outlines changes in
technology (we counsel, 2020).
Telebehavioral health is effective for both assessment and diagnosis since it can be used to
increase health services. Access to mental health care has been improved with the introduction of
Telebehavioral health. Thus the only cost incurred is the accessibility of the internet and initial
setup finances. The main advantage is that ...