Baptist Health Floyd, a 236-bed hospital located in New Albany, IN has been serving the healthcare needs of Southern Indiana since 1953. It has approximately 2,500 employees and 600 physicians. Baptist Health Floyd is the most recent addition to Louisville, Kentucky-based Baptist Health.

The demands on clinical research professionals to deliver high-quality study data more quickly and efficiently have arguably never been greater, but the industry continues to shy away from adapting technologies and new best practices that could help lighten the load.

But as consumers face higher out-of-pocket costs for care, they become more likely to postpone treatment or service. Two out of five adults with high deductibles have delayed or avoided care based on the amount of out-of-pocket costs, according to a survey by The Commonwealth Fund.

It has never been more important for your Human Resources Department to know the business and to step up as an integral component to the success of your healthcare organization. HR leadership must be able to validate their value and be able to speak in quantitative, objective terms.

A sometimes-daunting array of processes and technologies is putting a new kind of pressure on clinical research professionals that demands innovative training and a core reassessment of how to demonstrate skillsets.

Successful patient safety initiatives improve patient lives and outcomes. Although it may be hard for hospitals to successfully implement changes in workflow to enhance patient safety, technology like digital rounding can make it easier to achieve.

Industry disruption empowers healthcare HR and talent management leaders to create sophisticated processes to attract and engage the right candidates. Hiring the right people has never been more important in this age of radical reform, innovation, and consumerism.

Learn why an interest in lifelong learning in nursing is considered to be an element of professionalism for anyone working in healthcare, from HealthStream.

Hospitals have been granting clinical privileges for approximately 40-50 years, but for much of that time period, privileging systems have not addressed current clinical competency in any meaningful way. In recent years this has been changing, by necessity.

The Joint Commission has found inadequate safety culture to be a significant contributing factor to adverse outcomes. To support this finding, it recently emphasized the need for healthcare leadership to create an effective culture of safety.

What started [the move to patient advisors and patient-centered care] was a story from a staff member whose family member, her younger brother, had been a patient in our hospital.

Learn how patient safety in nursing depends on understanding how and why we are treating patients and how that treatment affects our patients, from HealthStream.

BJC’s story of operating a single database is not unheard of, but their system is more advanced than what most healthcare organizations use, making them stand out as a leader in the industry.

Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center ow uses HealthStream resources for new employee orientation which has made the process more efficient and engaging.

Competencies ensure the right people at the right level of your organization are equipped to achieve optimal performance outcomes. Successful competencies align with the organizational goals and individual performance evaluations, and are used to build a coaching culture.

Learn about the benefit of the HealthStream Learning Center through the success at Almost Family.

The times we live in call for a more active role in our personal safety and that of hospital patients and staff to be prepared for an active shooter.

An important role of the Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) Compliance Office is to implement effective conflict of interest (COI) policies and procedures for staff that enter into external relationships. For several years, the office used a “homegrown” system which was not specifically designed to manage COI activities, causing several operational deficiencies that made its continued use impractical. They needed a sophisticated and comprehensive tool for streamlining COI process that would also be simple to learn and use. So it was important for the organization to partner with a vendor that offered a proven solution and track records.

Until recently, Cooper University Health Care kept its clinicians and employees updated on healthcare regulatory changes with paper-based or in-person compliance training programs. Constantly evolving regulations, combined with a rapidly growing organization and conflicting employee schedules soon made this type of training impractical.

Healthcare is becoming more complex and specialized, with increased demand for complex health services and fast adoption of new methods. These trends have forced providers take a multidisciplinary approach to healthcare, including a greater need for effective, integrative teams.