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Healthcare Employee Recognition Ideas and Benefits

Effective healthcare employee recognition connects performance to intrinsic motivators—why they perform—and sends a message that the behaviors they exhibited are in alignment with how the healthcare employer defines success. Here are some healthcare employee recognition program ideas.

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The Healthcare Impacts of Anticipated U.S. Demographic Shifts

The aging of our population, which some have called a “silver tsunami,” will only keep accelerating. Expect rising healthcare expenditures, increased caregiver needs, and simultaneous geriatrician shortages.

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Does Your Competency Program Have the Whole Staff Comfortable with Expectations?

To align with new CMS regulations, long-term facility competency programs should tie into assessments and also should engage the entire staff in their creation and ongoing updates.

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Strong Trends Affecting the Healthcare Industry and Its Providers

A growing trend visible across healthcare is the effort to customize workforce development to specific needs and to learners. Concurrent challenges include growing financial pressures and the U.S. demographics. Here are a few ways that these trends will manifest themselves.

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Long-Term Care Administrators - What Is Your Staff Saying About Your Competency Program?

Full staff buy-in is vital for a long-term care provider’s competency program to not only be fully functional, but also as effective as it must be.

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Home Health Care vs. Hospital Care

The move toward value-based care may have us seeing home health care as a treatment option with even more benefits for patients and outcomes. Cost, clinical results and patient comfort may support providing higher levels of care at home.

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Long Term Care Competency Programs – Get Staff Input to Avoid Citations and Other Problems

When it comes to staff training and competency at long-term care facilities, the more staff engagement in program development, the better. New rules require that organizations must do better.

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Understanding the Difference Between Staff Training and Competency Programs

Knowing the difference between staff training and staff competency could help long-term care providers avoid headaches, penalties, and other operational negatives related to the rollout of Final Rule Stage 3.