CoP Scrum: Diagnoses

How can we ensure consistency and accuracy of a patient’s diagnosis?

Based on the CoP Advisory Board conversation and conversations with other stakeholders, the greatest challenges to community mental health center operations clearly include funding issues, workforce recruitment and retention, as well as practical considerations like providing trauma-informed care. These are significant and over-arching concerns that will be addressed, but we’d like to focus on diagnostic issues for the first scrum.

For a complete understanding of the issue, we need to determine the challenges of the existing diagnosis scenario.

Please complete the survey below to help establish current diagnostic processes.


*Not including historical data; intake clinician or staff person can be counted as one.

 


The objective of STARR Coalition Community of Practice (CoP) is to support research in CMHCs and increase participation from more diverse, and traditionally underrepresented, communities. Our definition of research includes testing new products, examining existing services and care pathways, and improving the way those services are set up and run. All healthcare workers can contribute to research in areas where they see a need, embedding research in treatment pathways, improving care, which can lead to a faster return to everyday life for patients.

Our CoP will support CMHCs to take an organization-wide approach to research, making it more efficient, inclusive, and equitable. The CoP will create a network of peers from many CMHCs, develop a comprehensive set of resources, from templates to diagnostics, and provide events such as webinars and workshops to share best practices, the latest developments, and help overcome the challenges faced by CMHCs.

We believe that research improves outcomes, changes lives, it saves lives. The CoP will help all healthcare worker practicing in CMHCs identify opportunities to be involved in research, giving their patients the chance to learn about and participate in suitable research, if they want. The CoP will provide the support, guidance, and information needed to enhance the career of healthcare workers involved in research and CMHCs that are part of our CoP will be attractive to high performing staff due to the elevated reputation of working in an institution that supports or conducts research.

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Scrum Process

A scrum is mission-based framework for teams to solve distinct problems within a specified time.  A scrum always consists of the following elements:

  • Concrete Objective;
  • Concrete Timeline;
  • Concrete Output.

The Advisory Board will identify gaps within the context of the CoP objectives and develop scrums to address these gaps.

A Community of Practice (CoP)
can help create a culture of learning and collaboration that supports ongoing professional development, innovation, and the provision of high-quality care to patients. In this case, the CoP would include outside researchers, so that members can learn from one another and stay up-to-date with the latest research and information on mental health treatments.

If you are interested in joining our CoP, please fill out the form below or contact us at erica@thestarr.org.

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