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Correlation Between CMS Star Rating and HealthStream Jane®

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) tracks and reports on several quality measures to provide transparency into different healthcare settings including acute care hospitals.

May 24, 2022

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Advances in Resuscitation Training with HCA and the American Red Cross

American Red Cross Resuscitation SuiteTM is the most flexible resuscitation training program in healthcare. The American Red Cross is committed is to driving improvement in resuscitation quality, to lowering costs, and improving accessibility to training. In addition, the flexible and adaptive nature of the program results in a faster, more efficient journey to competence.

May 24, 2022

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Duties of an Ambulatory Nurse

Healthcare leaders need successful strategies to attract, retain and challenge ambulatory care nurses. They need solutions that will help them address clinical competency as well as quality and compliance and the basics of scheduling and capacity management. HealthStream has solutions that can help you create the kind of ambulatory care environment that will be attractive to your patients, physicians and employees.

May 23, 2022

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Ready for a smarter, safer way to monitor your workforce?

Keeping up with your changing workforce and the evolving regulatory landscape is a tall order. We get that. That’s why we built Workforce Validate. From initial onboarding to ongoing monitoring, with Workforce Validate, you can be sure each member of your staff and vendors are clear to be on the floor.

May 18, 2022

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Onboarding: Designing the optimal journey from orientation to productivity in healthcare

Orientation and onboarding are critical steps in ensuring retention and engagement but getting it right can be difficult. HealthStream has resources to help newly hired staff make a real connection to your organization.

May 13, 2022

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Mental Illness – Persistent Stigmas can be Barriers to Care

The stigmas associated with mental health along with financial burdens and barriers and overt discrimination can result in delays or outright avoidance of care and treatment. Providers across the healthcare delivery system who are trained to recognize signs and symptoms of mental illness can be a key to earlier and more effective interventions.

May 13, 2022

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Your Guide to Mastering Professional and/or Peer References

Credentialing providers involves evaluating professional and peer references, which must be obtained from a suitable source to be effective.

May 11, 2022

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Life Amid COVID: How Managing Staff Has Changed

Transitions to remote work in response to COVID have been far from seamless. Hear from a medical staff services manager's perspective on managing remote CVO teams.

April 29, 2022

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Building retention with your Nurse Residency program

HealthStream’s ANCC-recognized program can help your organization address learner-specific needs with great content and assessments that will help leaders be confident they are supporting their organization’s newest nurses with the best and most appropriate clinical content.

April 28, 2022

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Travel nurses – strategies for effective management of documentation and scheduling

The ability to successfully imbed travel nurses into your organization will likely depend on having the right technology to be sure that these nurses can be credentialed, scheduled and oriented to your organization. Technology can help reduce the amount of time spent performing these tasks manually while assuring accuracy and ongoing monitoring that provides alerts that identify compliance issues.

April 25, 2022

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Empowering your perioperative staff

You can build competence and confidence in a high-risk/high-reward area – your ORs. HealthStream and AORN have partnered to offer content that will help leaders build competency and confidence in these teams. These tools also include tools to help measure that competence on a regular basis and can be part of a larger strategy to build staff and consumer confidence in surgical services.

April 19, 2022

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Are we headed towards a risk tsunami?

In order to minimize an organization’s risk from the coming risk tsunami, healthcare leaders need to be able to embrace innovative and multi-modal educational tools and new ways of thinking about how to rapidly onboard employees.

April 12, 2022

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HealthStream Quality Manager, formerly known as abaqis®, helps facility achieve 5-star quality rating

Through the implementation of abaqis, the facility’s Overall Star Rating increased from two to five in three years, including a deficiency-free survey in 2020.

April 11, 2022

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Nurse engagement strategies for the next generation

It is important to align education initiatives with the needs of learners. Learning solutions that support millennial and Gen Z learners need to be practical and relevant, but they also need to be individualized to the learner, technology-based and include visually appealing and interesting content.

April 07, 2022

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What next? Ensure safe, quality care during a staffing crisis

There are resources and strategies that can help healthcare leaders address the existing staffing challenges that were exacerbated by the pandemic.

April 06, 2022

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Need to Know Facts About Credentialing, Privileging, and Enrollment for FQHC Executive Leadership

If you’re a leader of Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), it’s important to know the ins and out of the credentialing, privileging and enrollment requirements your organization must adhere to. In this post, we outline the facts you need to know.

March 29, 2022

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In Times of Trouble, Fostering Well-Being Is Key to Retention, Quality of Care

Turnover among nurses was a problem jeopardizing quality of patient care long before the pandemic hit in early 2020. Not only were hospitals in certain parts of the U.S. already experiencing severe nursing shortages, but they were also reeling from an unprecedented number of retirements among Baby Boomers who were leaving the workforce.

March 22, 2022

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Ensuring Compliance With Regulatory Agencies

The cost of non-compliance in healthcare is very high and can impact patient safety and outcomes, result in enormous fines, the loss of public confidence and, in some cases, a loss of credentials. HealthStream can help your organization to remain in compliance with effective, cost-efficient solutions that address the spectrum of regulations covering healthcare providers.

March 16, 2022

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How to hit your revenue cycle goals in 2022

Education matters to employees and it is essential to the revenue cycle process. An essential step in meeting revenue goals is personalized education based on the learner’s role and educational needs. Education can reduce errors, streamline the revenue process and protect the bottom line.

March 15, 2022

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Developing competencies that address societal impacts on cardiovascular health

It is important to develop the kinds of strategies and skills that help healthcare providers address the societal impacts on cardiovascular disease management. Technology and education can help us address gaps in care and treatment and help better educate providers.

March 09, 2022