As hospitals take on more at-risk contracts in the value-based payment era, it is increasingly important that financial officers understand HCC capture and how the health status of contracted populations is calculated. Appropriately documenting and coding a patient’s full illness burden is essential to the financial health of hospitals.

The time has come to advance the practice of registered nurses to include care coordination and to manage the transition of patients between settings of care, from acute care to the many ambulatory settings and the community.

Healthcare organizations can use research about leadership to identify and sustain a pipeline of leadership talent across leadership roles. This article contains practical applications for enhancing your organization’s talent management capabilities:

When nurses learn that a mandatory training session has come up, mixed emotions usually occur. There can be excitement about something new, as well as grumbling about a tedious and time-consuming task. The latter response need not be a given.

Every healthcare organization wants to create an optimal experience for patients and visitors. While there are nuances involved in the way adults prefer to learn, the vast majority benefit from various learning models that employ variety and choice in their approaches.

A good nursing leader has the ability to positively influence others because they lead by example. The standards and expectations set for their staff are the same they have set for themselves.

The Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System is a five-hospital system in Louisiana with five employed medical groups and a clinically integrated network. Here are six best practices to guide an effort to centralize credentialing across a multi-facility system.

While there is no simple answer or one-size-fits-all solution for improving ED operations and flow, here are some proven principles to consider to enhance efficiency and reduce overall turnaround times.

Getting, and keeping, nurses is one of the major challenges in healthcare today. Can gamification help by providing an innovative platform that not only encourages growth and development but also fosters loyalty and teamwork?

Millennial college students have many strengths thanks to their tech awareness, but can come up short in other areas Smart educators will assess their own programs to see where they can help bridge those gaps.

High turnover rates can have a significantly detrimental impact on hospitals, patients, and healthcare staff. Staff turnover in hospitals is estimated to cost at least two times the pay of a regular employed nurse.

Regardless of an individual’s cultural beliefs and practices, nurses have an inherent obligation to provide equal and ethical care to all patients.

Improving outcomes is top of mind for everyone in healthcare. One really good place to start this effort is to focus on your workforce. The eBook addresses building the skills and competency of existing staff to more quickly realize increases in care quality, experiences, and operations.

A number of research studies have illustrated processes and activities that hospitals can undertake to lower readmissions, including better discharge processes and better coordination of care with post-acute facilities and primary care doctors

A positive transformation occurs in patient’s perception of their care when touch is added to a task. That is certainly true with the Bedside Shift Report (BSSR).

Working with that first new hire taught me a lot about how to be an effective preceptor, ignited my passion for precepting, and inspired me to continuously work on improving my skills as a preceptor.

Here are 5 strong reasons lifelong learning in nursing is a long term career need in healthcare to ensure that employees stay abreast of advances in healthcare.

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.

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.

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.