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2022 Annual Report on Medical Staff Credentialing
The 2022 Annual Report on Medical Staff Credentialing provides an updated insight into the ever-changing industry.
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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 24th, 2022
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Duties and Responsibilities 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 23rd, 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 15th, 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 13th, 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 11th, 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 12th, 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 11th, 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 29th, 2022
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Credentialing Residents and Fellows
To remain in compliance, our industry experts explain the definitions and credentialing requirements set by the Joint Commission for organizations that teach residents and fellows.
February 22nd, 2022
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Residency program offers visibility and blended learning
Learn how CHRISTUS Health's nurse residency program is leveraging visibility and blended learning to build a better foundation for nursing education.
January 4th, 2022
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Flexibility, communication key to successful onboarding with myClinicalExchange
CoxHealth System implemented myClinicalExchange to streamline onboarding for their nursing students.
December 20th, 2021
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Six Professional Goals for Nurse Managers
Prioritizing personal and professional goals can be difficult for nurse leaders, but maintaining and improving clinical and managerial skills is essential. Prioritize these six goals to maintain focus on those skills while modeling personal and professional growth for nurses on your team.
December 15th, 2021
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Cost Savings and Convenience with CE Unlimited
Learn how Columbia Memorial Hospital saved an estimated $18,000 by utilizing CE Unlimited.
December 7th, 2021
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From Commitments to Competitive Advantage: Implementing a GRC Framework
Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) affects nearly every department within a hospital or healthcare system. GRC is vitally important to complying with regulation, adequately assessing risk, and ensuring policies and procedures are followed enterprise-wide. Learn more about what needs to consider prior to implementing a GRC strategy at your organization.
December 1st, 2021
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Setting SMART Goals as a Charge Nurse
The optimal way to create a SMART goal is to look at the big picture and then establish an attainable process for getting there. Having the right resources and using a disciplined approach that includes the right kinds of learning tools and people performance solutions can help ensure that your professional goals are achieved.
November 23rd, 2021
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Age-Specific Competencies: What are They and How to Manage Them
Training and measurement around age-specific competencies should be a part of your competency measurement program. Use the right tools to ensure that providers understand the needs of patients at every age and stage of life. Also, use tools that will help your organization’s leaders know whether or not your team is providing the best in age-specific care.
November 19th, 2021
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What is Ambulatory Care and Why is it Important?
Ambulatory care is an area of healthcare expected to experience a disproportionate share of growth in the coming years. This blog post explores the changing nature of ambulatory care and the work environment an ambulatory care nurse could expect to encounter.
November 16th, 2021
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Dedicated to the Work of Health and Healing at Sanford Health
The automation is really encouraging. We are especially excited about the reporting capabilities. We no longer have to build Excel spreadsheets and manually filter things out or change things. We leverage the out-of-the-box reports.
November 11th, 2021
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What is healthcare analytics in data reporting?
Healthcare analytics can drive the kinds of change that can lead to a safe, efficient and reliable organization by helping leaders to better understand how to harness the power of your organization’s data.