Healthcare Management & Administration Blog

The Growing importance of Performance Metrics Related to Care Transitions from Hospital to Skilled Nursing

Now, as never before, hospitals have a powerful incentive to work closely with nursing homes to improve patient care, control costs, and reduce readmissions.

Leadership Development is a Growing Concern in Healthcare

Healthcare providers are functioning in a landscape that seems to be reshaped on a daily basis. While attempting to adjust to the explosion of healthcare reform, new regulations, performance standards, payment structures, ever-changing technology, and myriad other requirements, there remains the need to provide care to patients – and to do it perfectly every time.

Five Guidelines for Purposeful Rounding in Healthcare

Rounding is an organized process done with a purpose. There are a number of steps to help you prepare and make the most of the experience from day one.

Six Key Trends Emerging in Non-Acute Care

Skilled nursing, post-acute care, non-acute care, home health, rehab, care continuum, continuum of care, hospice, healthcare human resources

Select and Develop Healthcare Staff with Science-Based Tools

Healthcare organizations can improve their staff, culture, and outcomes with scientifically-developed behavioral assessment tools for hiring and for organizational development.

CPR Skills Are Being Expanded to Airport Travelers

There’s a new way for people to learn how to save lives at a number of airports across the country. It is now possible to learn and practice Hands-Only CPR, a short process that takes just a few minutes; kiosks in five airports provide quick lessons and allow learners to practice via a video touch-screen and a kiosk-attached CPR manikin.

Penn Medicine Goes Paperless for Credentials Review Process

The Medical Staff Office (MSO) for Penn Medicine uses Echo as the source of truth for all provider information related to credentialing and health plan enrollment. Recently, the Penn Medicine MSO made a strategic decision to streamline and automate their processes.

Five Tips for Managing Employed Physicians

Physicians often lead the team that surrounds every patient, and we must integrate them into the patient experience in a way that enables the best patient outcomes.

Physicians: Provider Enrollment Must Go Digital

As healthcare organizations hire providers, they must enroll the providers with payers; there is also an increasing expectation to shorten the onboarding times. Proper and efficient provider enrollment is the key to providers’ participation with insurance plans.

The Leader’s Role in Healthcare Peer Interviews

The role of the leader is to educate, direct, and guide the peer interviewing process—explaining why it is necessary and how it ultimately benefits the organization.

Physicians: Keeping Current When It Comes To CME

Continuing medical education (CME) in the U.S. is regulated by both state medical boards and specialty boards. All states require CME for license registration, and most states require CME for license renewal.

Hospital Changes Approach To Resuscitation Training to Improve CPR Outcomes

After introducing the American Heart Association’s Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) Program for CPR Training, Illinois Valley Community Hospital realized multiple benefits: Increased staff satisfaction, confidence, convenience, and reputation.

Listening Advice for Healthcare Peer Interviews

Active listening means that you give full attention to the other person, putting aside your need to reply, concentrating instead on what you’re hearing. Here are some ways to improve peer interviews by practicing being a very good listener.

Questions Physicians Ask about 2016 Healthcare Trends

This post excerpts an article from the Q1 2016 Provider Advisor about 10 significant issues and trends currently facing physicians.

Best Practices: How NOT to Listen in Healthcare Peer Interviews

A good interviewer is, in fact, a very good listener. Here are so ways to fail at listening in healthcare peer interviews.