Professor suggests ways to implement trauma-informed care

In an interview with the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS), Sandra Bloom, MD, associate professor of health management and policy at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health, offers insights into how trauma impacts health care organizations and steps they can take to implement trauma-informed care. She encourages providers to question past practices and learn new ways of interacting. “The more that leadership can engage staff in looking at [these topics]—after having acquired a knowledge base about adversity, trauma, and chronic stress—the more engaged staff will become, and the more they will develop creative strategies that help them, help patients, and help the organization thrive,” she says. Bloom is a co-founder of the Sanctuary Model, an intervention that addresses the impacts of violence through organizational culture change. (CHCS blog post, 5/28/19)