Healthcare Management & Administration Blog

Growth in Outpatient Care and Observation Status Challenge Healthcare Forecasting

Shifts in volume from inpatient to outpatient care are becoming an even bigger obstacle to the CFO’s ability to build forecasts. Also challenging hospitals is the rise in patients who do not meet admission criteria, but are placed in hospital beds in an observation status.

Use Internships to Promote Healthcare Compliance Career Choices: Guidelines

It is important to encourage young professionals to pursue a career in the growing area of healthcare compliance. Here are some guidelines for successful compliance internship programs.

Curbing Nurses Turnover Rates

Learn why curbing nurses turnover rate is important for care quality in medical facilities, especially in nursing homes, from HealthStream.

To Improve Patient Safety, Four Ways Healthcare Organizations Must Think Differently

HealthStream recently interviewed Bryan Warren, the Director of Healthcare Solutions at Select International, to get his insight on how organizations can build a patient-centered and patient safety-focused culture. He shared these four suggestions for rethinking processes.

The Transition to Value-Based Care Presents a Challenge to Post-Acute and Non-Acute Care: Podcast

Post-acute and non-acute care are changing dramatically with the transition to value-based care. Organizations must ramp up their attention to competency, care quality, and efficiency to establish themselves as the providers of choice to work with acute care hospitals. Employees are key to this change, and HealthStream provides solutions to help organizations invest in creating highly trained and competent staff across the continuum of care.

Best Practices for Healthcare Employee Retention: A Success Story

To support leaders throughout the system, Memorial Hermann’s Human Resources organization developed a portal that included these five effective retention-focused tools.

Continuing Education is Important for Nurses and Everyone Else in Healthcare

The orientation towards lifelong learning may be one of the most important competencies healthcare staff must possess for future success, and it will be up to employers to harness and engage new generations in untold and different ways.

The Importance of Emotional Intelligence for Healthcare Staff

This post is taken from a recent podcast recording with Bryan Warren, the Director of Healthcare Solutions at Select International, a HealthStream partner that helps organizations identify the necessary behavioral competencies of successful employees.

How All-Pervasive ACA Uncertainty Worries a Healthcare CFO

For a bird’s-eye view of the current healthcare climate and a forecast of what’s ahead, we spoke with Joanne Aquilina, CFO at Bethesda Health in South Florida, focusing on several key factors affecting healthcare today and tomorrow.

Preparing For the Future of Healthcare and Promoting Health: HealthStream Living Labs

Richard Galentino shares his vision for the future of healthcare, where we have to address resource constraints, as well as where HealthStream’s Living Labs program is headed.

Challenges In Nursing Facilities: Best Practices

Here are some current issues and industry changes as well as some solutions that will continue to be big challenges in nursing facilities (SNFs), from HealthStream.

HealthStream Customers Named as Winners of 2017 Awards of Excellence

Three Focus Areas When Fighting Healthcare Employee Turnover

Memorial Hermann leadership decided it was imperative that Human Resources (HR) take on the System’s retention issues. The group concluded that they should focus their efforts in three areas and assigned a team to each initiative.

Improving Healthcare Compliance Through Education and Training

HCCS has helped us propel our compliance training and other online education programs into the 21st century,” Kay says. “I’ve seen enough of the other courses to know that if you do compliance training online, HCCS does it better than anyone else.”

Helping Medical Associations Avoid Conflicts of Interest: Case Study

In order to maintain their reputations for integrity and impartiality, medical associations for all kinds of specialties have to be vigilant about avoiding and identifying conflicts of interest among their members.