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CaredFor App Updates

We are excited to announce we've made some amazing updates to the CaredFor app! 

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Measuring Success In Our App

If you are thinking about signing up for the CaredFor app or recently signed up, you may be wondering what to expect from the app. The information below provides...

The Top 5 Tips for Creating Online Patient Satisfaction Surveys

Quality care is not complete without understanding patients' level of satisfaction, and just because you aren't hearing a lot of negative feedback doesn't mean patients are satisfied.  A...

How To Help Families Of Those Struggling With Addiction

When we think of addiction, we often think of the individual and his or her struggle with it, often forgetting that families are affected just as much as...

The Top 5 Ways To Generate Alumni Reviews

In the days before the internet, most people turned to friends and family for recommendations on which companies to do business with. In the past few years, however...

CaredFor's Role From a Content Perspective

The CaredFor app is packed with features our alumni, patients, and families love, but did you know that the team at CaredFor regularly posts quality content to help...

Healthcare Vendor Best Practices for Patient Data Security

Unless you’ve been living in a cave with no wifi, you’re probably aware of the data-security issues that have been making the rounds lately in the news. You...

How Being Grateful Can Improve Your Life

Thinking about what we’re grateful for doesn’t need to occur just once a year in late November. The practice of expressing gratitude, be it verbal or written, has incredible...

Introducing Patient Messaging

Providing tools for your patients to connect with you on whatever platforms they prefer is key to successful engagement. Many patients prefer to connect digitally to schedule appointments...

What's a BAA and Why Is It Important?

Think back to the last time you purchased some type of software for your treatment center.  When you were talking to the vendor or your team, did you...

How Families Can Encourage Their Loved Ones To Get Substance-Abuse Treatment

Few things are more painful than seeing someone you care for making him/herself seriously ill with chemical addiction—and insisting, “It’s not that bad, I can handle it, and...

What We're Grateful For

Our team has been talking about gratitude around the office as we have been developing an exciting new set of features. There is overwhelming evidence that ties an...

How To Prioritize Your Recovery During The Holidays

That magical, exciting, celebration time of year is here…the holiday season! But for those in recovery and especially new in recovery this can be especially stressful. The holidays bring...

We Saw A Spike In Traffic Over Thanksgiving. Here’s A Look At What Users Were Doing.

Most people think about a surge in online activity around Thanksgiving to be associated with Black Friday or Cyber Monday shoppers trying to get the best deals. CaredFor...

What I Learned at Moments of Change

Moments of Change celebrated its 50th anniversary this year, bringing together a diverse group of treatment professionals from across the country. This was my first time attending Moments...

Are You Overthinking It?

A few weeks ago I ran in the Heroes in Recovery 6K. If you haven’t participated in one of their events you’re missing out! It’s fun, well organized...

Why I Joined TPAS

I’ve had the opportunity to speak to hundreds of treatment centers about their alumni programs and what they are doing to help alumni post treatment. New and existing...

3 Ways To Build An Engaged Online Community

How many online groups or communities are you a part of? Facebook reports that 850 million of its users use the Groups feature each month. Of the groups...

3 Ways to Fix Your Declining Alumni Engagement Rates

As your patients complete treatment and move on to the next phase of their recovery journey, they will continue to need your help. Support and encouragement has been...

CaredFor Turned 1 and We Forgot to Celebrate!

It happened so fast and passed without even an acknowledgement - CaredFor turned 1 in May. As we were sitting in the office this past week we were...

What Would Harvard Do?

Over the past few years there has been a massive expansion of colleges and universities. You can’t miss the ads on radio and TV or the billboards that...

Top 10 Reasons to Stay Active in a Support Community

Every detox program emphasizes regular human support for maintaining long-term sobriety. But after you’ve been doing well for a while, it can be tempting to let your support...

3 Rules To Follow When Launching Any New Project

The path to launch any new project is oftentimes rocky. Whether you’re rolling out a new CMS for your website or undergoing a marketing rebrand, you’re going to...

3 Reasons to Prioritize Launching Your Online Alumni Community

As part of the Alumni team you are constantly juggling priorities. It’s difficult to find the time necessary to provide support and resources for alumni, let alone work...

Product Updates: Inspirations, Announcements, and Analytics

Adding new features can be a challenge for any company. With so many ideas, the tendency is to just start building, but without a strategy how do you...

3 Ideas for Authentic Alumni Engagement

Treatment centers understand the importance of staying connected and engaged with alumni.  Outreach efforts like emails, phone calls, social posts all serve to keep our treatment centers top...

What is Engagement Data and How Can it Improve Your Online Alumni Community?

Collecting data is a standard practice for most of the apps we use. That data is used to provide the user with insights, improve the product/service, or help...

The Patient Experience Doesn’t End at Last Touch

Over the past several decades industries such as banks, hotels, airlines and others have been competing on service to attract and retain customers. In the past 5 years...

What is a Recovery-Specific Social Network?

The US Surgeon General released a report last week titled Facing Addiction In America. The report, which was the first-ever such report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health by...

How To Create An Online Community For Your Alumni

Aftercare programs are a standard component of most treatment centers. These types of programs include monthly alumni meetings, regular phone calls, email updates, and Facebook groups. All of...

Part 3: How Technology Is Helping Addiction Treatment Providers Reach New Patients

This is the third article in our series on how technology is changing the ways addiction recovery centers engage alumni, track compliance, and increase referrals. In the first...

Part 2: Understanding Compliance Apps and How Addiction Treatment Centers Are Using Them

This is the second article in our series on how technology is changing the ways addiction recovery centers engage alumni, track compliance, and increase referrals. In the first...

How Addiction Treatment Providers Are Using Technology to Improve Outcomes and Reach New Patients

Every day we read about new apps or technologies that aim to improve our health, productivity, or careers. These advances in technology are seen everywhere, including ways to...

Meet the new way to engage your alumni

Addiction is a lonely disease. For those who have struggled with addiction or know someone who has, you understand that isolation is a barrier to recovery. Even after...