Healthcare Management & Administration Blog

Why Healthcare HR Must Evolve and Innovate

For HR professionals to be more than just employee advocates, Elliot says they need to be able to articulate why employee programs drive better business outcomes. “That’s the inspiration from the commercial world HR needs to get.”

Taking the Pulse of Provider Credentialing: Where is the Industry Focusing?

VerityStream surveyed the NAMSS membership, 5,800 medical services professionals, about the importance of four key initiatives and to indicate their level of success in addressing various activities within each initiative.

Turnover in Skilled Nursing Facilities – Impact and Solutions

Not much attention has been paid to the effects of poor retention of skilled nursing staff. However, the literature supports the importance of retaining them.

The Business Case for Focusing on Hospital and Healthcare Recruitment

Is there a link between human resources and hospital and health system business outcomes? In the current issue of HealthStream’s PX Advisor, Elliot Clark, chairman and CEO of HRO Today says yes, and he has the research to support it.

Healthcare Leader Rounding with a Purpose: Collecting and Sharing Information

Leader rounds should not be done merely as a way to follow protocol; they should be done with a purpose. Leaders should perform rounds to collect actionable information from patients and staff and to promote a “people-centered” culture across the organization.

eBook: The Dollars are in the Details

Looming changes in the healthcare landscape will significantly impact every healthcare organization’s bottom line. HealthStream’s new eBook explores some of these issues and offers insight and best practices for navigating through the changes with success.

Three Keys to Success for the Future of Non-Acute Care: Podcast

We asked QEC Partners President Vickie Harris about the key to future success for non-acute care providers given the vast array of changes that are coming their way. She responded in our podcast that they need to focus on collaboration, specialization, and quality.

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.