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The Opioid Crisis and COVID-19 – Challenges and Strategies for Patients and Providers

The pandemic has created a crisis within a crisis for SUD and mental health patients. While these patients are more vulnerable in this time, there are strategies to support both patients and their healthcare providers.

April 01, 2021

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Survive or Thrive: Where Long Term Care Goes from Here

Long-term care providers already had serious challenges before the COVID-19 pandemic appeared. In our e-Book, Survive or Thrive? Where Long-Term Care Goes from Here, HealthStream takes a broad look at the issues that organizations across the continuum of care are facing.

April 01, 2021

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Six Strategies for Quality Improvement in Maternal and Neonatal Care

National data on maternal death and injury make it clear that there is plenty of room for improvement. There are some tools and strategies that can help providers reduce risk and provide better outcomes for their patients.

April 01, 2021

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Improve Healthcare Training with Adaptive and Personalized Learning

According to surveyed healthcare leaders, their organizational education and development programs are challenged by assignments that can be difficult for staff to take and by employees who are frustrated by having to repeatedly train on the same material.

April 01, 2021

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The Importance of Joint Commission Maternal Health Standards and How They Were Compiled

The new Joint Commission Standards for maternal and perinatal safety establish multiple requirements for improving maternal care and outcomes. The Standards also incorporate advice from multiple organizations and other national experts in evidence-based practice for maternal healthcare.

April 01, 2021

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Mobile Nurse Scheduling App Offers Potential to Boost Staffing Efficiency

Nurse scheduling is complex and chaotic for both nurses and their supervisors, which is why an easy-to-use app that simplifies the process has taken off nationwide.

April 01, 2021

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Short Staffing in Long-Term Care Is Having an Impact on Resident and Financial Outcomes

Staffing levels are one of the most important determinants of whether a long-term care facility is providing adequate care. However, many nursing homes have employee coverage issues and are failing the meet the CMS requirement “that a registered nurse be on-site at least eight hours every day.”

April 01, 2021

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What is the COVID-19 Pandemic Changing about the Future of Long-Term Care

Current events, especially the COVID-19 pandemic, have focused our attention like never before on the long-term care industry and on the mostly older adult population who make it their home. The article excerpted here examines the future of long-term care and trends impacting its rate of change.

April 01, 2021

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Bring Efficiency and Personalization to Healthcare Training with Adaptive Learning

Thanks to advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence in the healthcare industry, leaders can now use an approach called “adaptive learning” to improve the way learning is delivered, as well as its effectiveness for outcomes and learners themselves.

April 01, 2021

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For Provider Credentialing During COVID-19, Keep Processes Effective, But Uncomplicated

Credentialing during the COVID-19 pandemic makes us understand the need more than ever to keep our heads focused on patient needs and suspend some of the things that we would normally do in a more thorough non-emergent credentialing and privileging process.

April 01, 2021

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COVID-19 and the Opioid Crisis – How This Pandemic is Shaping the Opioid Crisis in 2020

COVID-19 has had a deleterious effect on the opioid crisis, but it is possible for patients to emerge on the other side of the pandemic in a better place if we first understand where we were prior to the pandemic and also understand the factors that make the pandemic so difficult for these patients.

April 01, 2021

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Improve Maternal Mortality Rates Using POEP

POEP is a comprehensive orientation and educational tool that can help providers reduce risk and provide better outcomes for mothers and babies.

April 01, 2021

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Specific Results from HealthStream’s Long-Term Care Survey about COVID-19

HealthStream surveyed 365 long-term care facility leaders during April/May of 2020 about COVID-19. Here are some of their specific responses about challenges, priorities, and training needs.

April 01, 2021

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Using Telehealth to Help Flatten the COVID-19 Curve

The actions described here demonstrate how telehealth has crucially bridged the gap during this unprecedented time and how healthcare organizations have worked to make telehealth widely accessible during the coronavirus pandemic.

April 01, 2021

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What’s next for infant stabilization education?

Today, the S.T.A.B.L.E. Program for infant stabilization care is used for outreach education, continuing education, and as a hospital requirement to work with perinatal patients— both mothers and babies and in the NICU.

April 01, 2021

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Acute Healthcare Is Feeling the Impact of COVID-19

Hospital survey respondents were actively involved in the treatment of COVID-19 patients. Some 70.1% reported that they were currently treating COVID-19 patients. An additional 25% said they were preparing to treat COVID-19 patients. Here is what we learned about their priorities and challenges.

April 01, 2021

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Credentialing as Telehealth Is Playing a Prominent Role in Our New COVID-19 Reality

Another major shift in care delivery has been the rapid rise in existing telehealth operations and deployment of new or expanded ones. This also is an area where a more rapid licensure and credentialing process can be beneficial.

April 01, 2021

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What Does Successful Patient Access Training Look Like?

Patient Access training needs to go beyond basic orientation to match roles and individual aptitude in the effort to meet client needs. A best practice is to use trainee test scores and to determine the subjects where more focused time should be spent to best serve the client’s needs.

April 01, 2021

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Four Ways COVID-19 Has Healthcare Re-envisioning Workforce Development

The COVID-19 pandemic has made it more important than ever to assess how we provide learning and the ways we manage employees in healthcare, and to rethink some of our accepted notions about using training to improve care. Here are four examples.

April 01, 2021

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The S.T.A.B.L.E. Program Ensures Critically Important Infant Stabilization Care

Today, the S.T.A.B.L.E. Program for infant stabilization care is used for outreach education, continuing education, and as a hospital requirement to work with perinatal patients— both mothers and babies and in the NICU.

April 01, 2021