This February, Genesis Health Consulting is blogging about why the practice of change management is a critical enabler of large and small efforts to generate new behaviors, processes, partnerships and outcomes. Read our first blog here. Understanding readiness for change is a key factor in managing change within a team, department or organization. Completing a readiness assessment helps leaders understand how colleagues are currently thinking about change, and allows leaders

This February, Genesis Health Consulting will be blogging about the why the practice of change management is a critical enabler of large and small efforts to generate new behaviors, processes, partnerships and outcomes. In the process, we'll highlight some of the science, best practices and tools that leaders can adopt in their own work. In the end, however, it all comes down to this: the best strategies and most sophisticated processes go nowhere if the people leading and ex

Measurement is a key driver of turning best practices into common practices. We apply this insight to the work of health systems to embed best practices on trauma-informed care in their service delivery, organizational policies, and infrastructure design. Health care systems sometimes struggle to maintain engagement in this work because measurement strategies focus on improvements to patient outcomes and quality of care, which can require long lead times to measure. Focusing

Research on the powerful effect of trauma on health and child development continues to build, collectively describing a foundational element of pediatric science: traumatic childhood experiences – even in infancy – have a profound effect on the developing architecture of the brain, and on a child’s long-term health. Research tells us that experiencing trauma during childhood is pervasive: more than two-thirds of children under the age of sixteen have experienced a traumatic e