Sandy hit with a vengeance. Our Access Center couldn’t get to the office. Worse, 19 AtlantiCare affiliated physician practices were closed, and their answering service was out of commission. Even their answering service emergency backup call center was down.
Learn about the benefit of the HealthStream Learning Center through the success at Almost Family.
An important role of the Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) Compliance Office is to implement effective conflict of interest (COI) policies and procedures for staff that enter into external relationships. For several years, the office used a “homegrown” system which was not specifically designed to manage COI activities, causing several operational deficiencies that made its continued use impractical. They needed a sophisticated and comprehensive tool for streamlining COI process that would also be simple to learn and use. So it was important for the organization to partner with a vendor that offered a proven solution and track records.
Until recently, Cooper University Health Care kept its clinicians and employees updated on healthcare regulatory changes with paper-based or in-person compliance training programs. Constantly evolving regulations, combined with a rapidly growing organization and conflicting employee schedules soon made this type of training impractical.
Baptist Health Floyd, a 236-bed hospital located in New Albany, IN has been serving the healthcare needs of Southern Indiana since 1953. It has approximately 2,500 employees and 600 physicians. Baptist Health Floyd is the most recent addition to Louisville, Kentucky-based Baptist Health.
Avalon Healthcare implemented Quality Manager across their 38-facilities in five states in advance of the move to the long-term care QIS Survey by CMS. As other organizations’ citations have increased under QIS to as many as 11, extra insight from using Quality Manager has enabled Avalon to decrease citations from 8 to around 5, on average.
Learn how the Mid Dakota Clinic benefited from an 80% reduction in time spent on evaluation emails through their partnership with HealthStream.
San Luis Valley Health (SLVH) used HealthStream’s Nurse Residency Pathway as an essential component of the effort to improve orientation and retention for new nurse residents.
Mary Lanning Healthcare believes that effective employee recognition is a key component in creating an engaged workforce. After implementing AMPT to boost their staff recognition program.
Initiative Management enabled Hartford HealthCare (HHC) to consolidate their learning management into one LMS, and launch Epic throughout the health system.
When St. Dominic Hospital needed a method for preceptors to complete and document skills checklists, they chose HealthStream’s Checklist Management and realized immediate benefits.
Hospitals continue to feel the financial pain stemming from the ongoing nursing shortage. Compounding the problem of a nursing shortage is a high turnover rate among new nurses.
The looming physician shortage represents a dire situation for the state of healthcare in the U.S., as many experts predict that demand for health services will soon exceed the industry’s capacity to provide care.
The COVID-19 pandemic has turned the world of healthcare upside down, especially in terms of how care professionals feel about their work and their employers. Here are some reasons nurse engagement is important, as well as some strategies to improve it.
Though many people think of the hospital as a typical nursing work environment, the reality is that nurses work in a variety of settings. This blog post looks at some of the characteristics and challenges of working in assisted living vs. nursing home care.
Learn about 5 essentials of nursing orientation and its pivotal role in the competency and retention of newly hired registered nurses, from HealthStream.
Air Methods, an emergency air medical services company, transitioned from a traditional leader-led resuscitation program to the American Red Cross instructor-less model, saving them time and money.
As the opioid crisis continues to unfold across the United States, healthcare providers are increasingly caught in the crosshairs of a dilemma: How can they provide the highest quality patient care while also complying with federal, state, and local mandates around prescribing and reporting abuse?
When nurses learn that a mandatory training session has come up, mixed emotions usually occur. There can be excitement about something new, as well as grumbling about a tedious and time-consuming task. The latter response need not be a given.
