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Quality Manager formerly known as abaqis®

Mitigate risk and elevate your quality of care. Improving both clinical and business outcomes starts with a smarter, more integrated approach to regulatory training, continuing education and quality management.

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Customization & control make a difference with Policy Manager

May 20, 2024
May 20, 2024

About the Customer

As a Joint Commission-accredited, dual diagnosis adult substance abuse treatment program, Bridges of Hope provides a comprehensive and integrated approach to address substance use and mental health disorders.

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The primary driver for purchasing HealthStream’s Policy Manager, according to Michael Whitlock, Executive Director at the facility, was to assist in accessible policy storage as well as accomplishing a read acknowledgement task for employees. Having made the transition from compliance to executive director only a few months prior, Whitlock recognized the work needed to properly implement the program so that it would be utilized to its fullest. Many policies were understandably outdated, because they had been previously using manual binders and spreadsheets – modernization of the process was key.

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During the transition, the team had lots of questions, but they also knew the old system wasn’t working for them anymore, so they were very open to the change. Whitlock feels the ability to build and customize the program from the ground up made a huge difference, because they were able to show proof of concept and make changes as needed. As a result, the process was very smooth. Whitlock credited the support from HealthStream in terms of training as very helpful.

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The key outcome achieved was modernization of the entire process. By switching to an electronic process, Whitlock said the facility achieved three major goals: Switching policies to electronic format for easy editing, allowing for read acknowledgement of policies, and dramatically reducing timelines for making changes or preparing for assessments. Key features noted as the most helpful include email notifications as a “great first prompt” for assessment work, a robust notes section that helps the team keep track of what’s been reviewed, and highly detailed reports. 


"This is an amazing product, it’s definitely helped a lot in the way we’ve implemented policy, and there’s enough freedom [within the program] that it’s helped me in other areas for compliance, like tracking some of our accreditation requirements."

Michael Whitlock, Executive Director, Bridges of Hope

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