Clinical Supervision Monthly Learning Communities: Productivity Versus Quality: Can They Co-Exist? (January 2022)
The Great Lakes A/MH/PTTC is offering this training for individuals working in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI. This training is being provided in response to a need identified by Region 5 stakeholders.
DESCRIPTION
This presentation provides a primer on agency funding within a purchase-of-service model and enters discussion on how billable units (agency revenue) must be balanced by quality of care (patient outcomes). Exploration of research on the relationship between documentation and productivity requirements on compassion fatigue and staff turnover.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Understand how funding mechanisms affect productivity requirements
- Recognize the relationship between productivity requirements, compassion fatigue, and staff retention.
- Discuss methods of balancing productivity and client care quality
CONTINUING EDUCATION
This training module includes one NAADAC CE. CE certificates will be emailed to all participants who attend the training in full.
TRAINER

John M. Ellis LISW-S, LICDC-CS, ICCS
John became a full-time member of the University of Akron School of Social Work beginning Fall of 2015. Overall, he has almost 35-year’s experience in the field of addictions and mental health. His academic and curriculum focus is on healthcare policy/ administration, addictions/mental illness, integrated healthcare, evidence-based interventions, workforce development, clinical supervision, and technology transfer.
John remains a consultant with the Great Lakes Addiction Technology Transfer Center in Madison Wisconsin, the Department of Psychiatry at the Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) and is the former secretary of the Ohio Clinical Roundtable.