The Steptoe Group, LLC was founded in 2008 with the corporate headquarters located in Ellicott City, Maryland. The Steptoe Group is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business whose objective is to create sustainable partnerships with government agencies and private organizations in order to improve access and delivery of quality health, science, and education services. The firm accomplishes this objective by utilizing a proprietary business platform that effectively and efficiently integrates training, information management, research and communications in order to improve long term health outcomes.<\/p>\n
The Steptoe Group, LLC announced on November 6, 2009 the release of its Warrior-Patient Centric Healthcare Training\u00a0Seminar Series\u00a0for healthcare providers treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Compassion Fatigue\u00a0and other mental and behavioral health conditions, “INVISIBLE WOUNDS OF WAR,” in the military and veteran medical communities. The training will improve healthcare delivery capabilities and focus on \u201cPost 9\/11\u201d military culture in the clinical setting; cultural competency; and patient-provider communications.\u00a0 The firm is currently capable of providing annual on-site training for approximately 25,000 healthcare providers a year. In addition the Steptoe Group has the capability of launching Warrior-Patient Centric Healthcare Training Seminar Series in a web based platform (SCORM compliant).\u00a0 Regardless of the training platform, lay professionals, and allied health team members upon completion of the Warrior-Patient Centric Healthcare Training\u00a0Seminar Series\u00a0will be awarded Continuing Medical Education (CME), and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).<\/p>\n
The Steptoe Group is currently working with Government and Private Organizations to increase the awareness on the growing and deleterious impact mental and behavioral health conditions are having on the military and veteran communities. Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF\/OIF) has seen the deployment of nearly 2 million US troops since October 2001.\u00a0 Unlike the past, 3.9% in Vietnam and 3.1% in Korea, a staggering 45% of the combatants in the Global War on Terror are Reserve Component Soldiers drastically altering healthcare challenges. The Steptoe Group is currently capable of implementing a national multi-center assessment program. \u00a0The program will assess healthcare provider and medical treatment facility competency in \u201cPost 9\/11\u201d military culture,\u00a0 culturally appropriate healthcare delivery, and patient-provider communication. The Steptoe Group is the\u00a0 nation\u2019s leading\u00a0 provider of\u00a0 \u201cPost 9\/11\u201d assessment tools, research,\u00a0 and evaluations on the effectiveness of\u00a0 medical systems, and healthcare providers. The Steptoe Group evaluates if the medical system is addressing, implementing, and delivering culturally competent\u00a0 mental and behavioral healthcare to the diverse populations which comprise the nation\u2019s military and veteran communities.<\/p>\n
The Steptoe Group, LLC is committed to long term patient care and to providing the most advanced training, information management, communications and research solutions to active duty, reserve, and national guard, and veteran medical communities that serve our nation\u2019s warriors, warrior families, and veterans.<\/p>\n