Advancing Trauma- and Resilience-Informed Health Care Systems: Early Lessons from Denver Health

A trauma-informed approach to care acknowledges that health care organizations and care teams need a complete picture of a patient’s life situation - past and present - to provide effective services with a healing orientation. Adopting trauma-informed practices can potentially improve patient engagement, treatment adherence, and health outcomes, as well as provider and staff wellness.
This webinar, cosponsored by the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) and the Better Care Playbook, will highlight how Denver Health, a large health system in Colorado, is implementing a trauma- and resilience-informed approach into organizational policy and practice, while also focusing on addressing systemic racism and biases. Panelists will discuss their efforts, including building staff capacity, promoting organizational culture change, and gaining leadership buy in for a system-wide trauma-informed approach to care. Denver Health is a participant in Advancing Integrated Models, a national learning collaborative led by CHCS and made possible through support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.