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Preparing your non-clinical staff to respond to an emergency

HealthStream’s American Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED program can relieve the stress of building competence and confidence in your non-clinical staff with training that is flexible, engaging and designed to meet all regulatory requirements.

July 7th, 2022

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Celebrate Pride by creating an inclusive care environment for the LGBTQIA+ patient community

Tools that can help your organization create a diverse and inclusive culture for employees are a must-have as are tools that help healthcare workers understand how to create a safe and affirming environment for LGBTQIA+ patients and families.

July 7th, 2022

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Child and maternal health – the case for standardizing education

While maternal child health statistics continue to disappoint and confound healthcare providers, the solution may lie in standardizing education for nurses and other healthcare providers.

July 5th, 2022

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Rethinking Resuscitation: Improving Education and Training Strategies

June 16th, 2022

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How to Improve Mental Health in Senior Care

While older adults may be different from other populations in terms of their general physical health, they are similar to the general population in that they suffer from mental illness at roughly the same rate as younger cohorts. Educating providers is the strategic foundation for treating mental illness in the aging population – create a workforce that will recognize the signs and symptoms of mental illness in their older patients and equip them with the best therapeutic interventions for this population.

June 14th, 2022

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Cultivating Personal and Professional Growth – The Importance to Revenue Cycle Growth

Cultivating personal and professional growth is a key strategy in the management and growth of your organization’s revenue cycle. Investing in education will help ensure that the investments made in revenue cycle technology pay off. Investing in education for your revenue cycle team can help save money on reimbursement issues and reduce employee turnover.

June 13th, 2022

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A Nurse Walks Into a Hospital… Rapid Onboarding With Jane®

Onboarding with Jane® is a smart solution that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to create a personalized education plan and measure competency across knowledge and critical judgement domains.

June 6th, 2022

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Get Ahead of the Policy-Reinforce Quality Maternal Care

Quality OB is a data-driven, highly interactive solution that can help your organization get out ahead of new policies while reinforcing the latest science in obstetrical medicine. More importantly, Quality OB is a proven tool. Providing competency-based OB modules that focus on high-risk patient safety issues can actually decrease obstetrical claims as evidenced by a lower percentage of OB risk claim identifiers.

June 2nd, 2022

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2022 Annual Report on Medical Staff Credentialing

The 2022 Annual Report on Medical Staff Credentialing provides an updated insight into the ever-changing industry.

May 26th, 2022

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Correlation Between CMS Star Rating and HealthStream Jane®

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) tracks and reports on several quality measures to provide transparency into different healthcare settings including acute care hospitals.

May 24th, 2022

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Duties and Responsibilities of an Ambulatory Nurse

Healthcare leaders need successful strategies to attract, retain and challenge ambulatory care nurses. They need solutions that will help them address clinical competency as well as quality and compliance and the basics of scheduling and capacity management. HealthStream has solutions that can help you create the kind of ambulatory care environment that will be attractive to your patients, physicians and employees.

May 23rd, 2022

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Ready for a smarter, safer way to monitor your workforce?

Keeping up with your changing workforce and the evolving regulatory landscape is a tall order. We get that. That’s why we built Workforce Validate. From initial onboarding to ongoing monitoring, with Workforce Validate, you can be sure each member of your staff and vendors are clear to be on the floor.

May 18th, 2022

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Advances in Resuscitation Training with HCA and the American Red Cross

American Red Cross Resuscitation SuiteTM is the most flexible resuscitation training program in healthcare. The American Red Cross is committed is to driving improvement in resuscitation quality, to lowering costs, and improving accessibility to training. In addition, the flexible and adaptive nature of the program results in a faster, more efficient journey to competence.

May 15th, 2022

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Onboarding: Designing the optimal journey from orientation to productivity in healthcare

Orientation and onboarding are critical steps in ensuring retention and engagement but getting it right can be difficult. HealthStream has resources to help newly hired staff make a real connection to your organization.

May 13th, 2022

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Your Guide to Mastering Professional and/or Peer References

Credentialing providers involves evaluating professional and peer references, which must be obtained from a suitable source to be effective.

May 11th, 2022

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Are we headed towards a risk tsunami?

In order to minimize an organization’s risk from the coming risk tsunami, healthcare leaders need to be able to embrace innovative and multi-modal educational tools and new ways of thinking about how to rapidly onboard employees.

April 12th, 2022

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HealthStream Quality Manager, formerly known as abaqis®, helps facility achieve 5-star quality rating

Through the implementation of abaqis, the facility’s Overall Star Rating increased from two to five in three years, including a deficiency-free survey in 2020.

April 11th, 2022

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Need to Know Facts About Credentialing, Privileging, and Enrollment for FQHC Executive Leadership

If you’re a leader of Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), it’s important to know the ins and out of the credentialing, privileging and enrollment requirements your organization must adhere to. In this post, we outline the facts you need to know.

March 29th, 2022

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How to hit all your revenue cycle goals in 2022

Education matters to employees and it is essential to the revenue cycle process. An essential step in meeting revenue goals is personalized education based on the learner’s role and educational needs. Education can reduce errors, streamline the revenue process and protect the bottom line.

March 15th, 2022

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Developing competencies that address societal impacts on cardiovascular health

It is important to develop the kinds of strategies and skills that help healthcare providers address the societal impacts on cardiovascular disease management. Technology and education can help us address gaps in care and treatment and help better educate providers.

March 9th, 2022

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