Healthcare Management & Administration Blog

Key 2018 Survey Findings About Medical Staff Credentialing - Part 1

Our survey of medical staff credentialing professionals occurred December 2017 – January 2018. You’ll see that organizations are still working hard to improve their credentialing processes, but there is still much to be accomplished. Here’s a limited view of five key findings from the survey.

Best Practices for Accrediting Nurse Residency Programs

A conversation with HealthStream nurse residency experts about CHRISTUS’s experience with accrediting their nurse residency programs identified several best practices for other organizations considering a similar effort.

Five Trends Demonstrate How Non-Acute Care is Changing

Non-acute care is definitely evolving. The changes that are happening across the care environment result from such demographics, new government approaches to reimbursement, and limited financial resources. Here are five of the many trends meriting attention.

Building Skills and Confidence in CPR

Developing caregivers to provide high-quality CPR should include regular training and measurement-based feedback. One training solution may be to adopt a NASCAR style approach—training the team to perform like a pit crew.

HealthSouth Honored for Advanced Support of High Quality Resuscitation

Yale New Haven Health used training videos to establish consistency in aspiration risk assessment procedures, saving training money and improving documentation and possibly outcomes.

Seven Insights about Transparency in the HealthCare Revenue Cycle

To support the desire for greater transparency around healthcare costs, many healthcare organizations have begun to rethink aspects of their revenue cycles, especially regarding pricing and cost estimation. Here are seven insights about that trend.

Best Practices For Using Assessments To Power Healthcare Hiring

Using assessments can provide a better candidate pool, and thus better employees, to create a smart, cohesive and stable healthcare workplace.

The Impact of Accredited Nurse Residency Programs: CHRISTUS St. Elizabeth

CHRISTUS St. Elizabeth of Beaumont, TX was barely a year into its nurse residency program when it decided to pursue accreditation by the ANCC. The impacts to retention and the working environment were impressive.

Transition Nurses to New Practice Settings with Accredited Nurse Residency Programs

In this eBook, we examine the benefits of CHRISTUS St. Elizabeth’s recent success in gaining accreditation for their nurse residency program from ANCC (the American Nurses Credentialing Center).

Healthcare Workforce Trends: Millennials Are Changing and Improving Healthcare

We are also approaching a situation where millennials will make up the largest percentage of the healthcare workforce, bringing a new focus to the future of care.

Work-life Balance in a Nursing Career

Nurses can have an especially difficult time balancing work and personal life because of the increased amount of physical and emotional stress that nurses experience.

Global Maternal Mortality Rates are Grim—And the U.S. is Not Excluded

US maternal mortality rates are the highest of any high resource country, and they are still going up. If we are going to reduce our rates as a nation, significant changes must take place in hospitals and in how we train caregivers.

HealthSouth Honored for Advanced Support of High Quality Resuscitation

HealthSouth reaffirmed its commitment to high quality resuscitation training and refocused efforts to support consistency and standardization in CPR training.

Healthcare Coalition Participation—Fulfill CMS Requirements and Ensure Assistance in a Crisis

Understand how healthcare coalitions ensure compliance with CMS Emergency Preparedness Program requirements and help organizations be prepared to share the burden of responding to potential crises.

12 Major Findings about Healthcare Provider Enrollment

We present our 2017 research findings collected by VerityStream from 505 credentialing and provider enrollment professionals throughout the U.S. It examines the current and changing landscape of provider enrollment and has implications for medical groups, hospitals, and healthcare organizations.