The 2016 CMS Emergency Preparedness rule establishes new national requirements for Medicare and Medicaid participating providers and suppliers to ensure those facilities are able to adequately plan for and respond to both natural and man-made disasters. What specifically is required?

1,181 medical services professionals (MSPs) were surveyed for our 2023 Annual Report on Medical Staff Credentialing. Process Improvement and Provider Data Management initiatives continued to be rated as the most important initiatives at their organizations. Read on for more detail on their top priorities.

High turnover, increasing vacancy rates, a crisis of nurse burnout – you’ve read the headlines, and you’re probably feeling it in your own facility. There is tremendous pressure to provide the support clinicians need to quickly onboard and competently develop in their skills, no matter where they are on the spectrum of knowledge or career path. You need to provide resources that educate, empower, and improve care – but to do this to scale and within budget? It seems like an impossible task.

In this webinar, Daniel Davis, MD, is joined by Chris McElvogue, BSN, RN, to review how the ART Program was designed to enhance your current efforts in clinical deterioration while also reinforcing critical thinking skills among nurses, and other patient-facing teams, with tools, resources, and the expertise required to anticipate and intervene when deterioration is detected.

HealthStream is excited to announce that our expertise has expanded beyond scheduling and learning to include medical credentialing.

HealthStream® now offers CredentialStream®, the industry’s fastest-growing credentialing solution in the history of the healthcare industry.