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Committing to Patient-Centered Care and Patient Safety: Podcast

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.

April 1st, 2021

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Improving Patient Safety, From Rounding with Patient Advisors: Podcast

Another thing that we have done is to implement safety rounds, where we have our patient advisers make safety rounds in the hospitals with our hospital presidents or the quality directors.

April 1st, 2021

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Challenges In Nursing Facilities: Best Practices

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.

April 1st, 2021

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Feeding Technique Innovation Can Impact Nutrition of Seniors Needing Assistance

I remember during the last couple of years of my grandmother’s life her independence greatly diminished—especially as her Alzheimer ’s disease became worse. Eating, and especially certain foods like tomato soup—one of her favorites—became difficult.

April 1st, 2021

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A Blended Learning Approach to Improving Patient Outcomes and Experiences

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.

April 1st, 2021

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Credentialing and Provider Enrollment in 2018: Three Key Industry Survey Findings

We present our research collected in early 2017 by VerityStream from 505 U.S. credentialing and provider enrollment professionals who indicate that creating efficiency and automation are higher priorities in their organization than in recent years.

April 1st, 2021

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Four Ways to Improve Patient-Provider Communication

Poor communication can increase medical errors and hospital readmission rates for patients with chronic diseases such as congestive heart failure and diabetes as well as lead to misuse of medications.

April 1st, 2021

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Beyond Managing: Leadership for Healthcare Teams

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.

April 1st, 2021

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Six Things You Need to Know About End of Life Care

Our healthcare model pushes to extend life, even if it comes at a high cost and sacrifices the quality of the patient’s remainder of life. These six observations focus on the latest developments surrounding care at the end of life.

April 1st, 2021

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Webinar: Panel Discussion on Using Employee Engagement and Talent Strategies to Drive Success (6/29)

Today’s challenges mean that leaders are thinking differently about talent – how to select, engage and develop people at every level who will support the organization’s goals. This interactive panel discussion will explore how senior leaders view talent, today.

April 1st, 2021

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What's to Blame for Disengaged Physicians?

Only one in four physicians feels engaged and 56% of employed physicians have negative feelings toward their profession. Here’s how to start changing those numbers.

April 1st, 2021

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Nominate Your Organization for a 2016 HealthStream Award of Excellence®

We are now accepting submissions for the HealthStream Awards of Excellence. These awards spotlight innovative programs and superior leadership that support organizational excellence, workforce development, patient satisfaction, employee engagement, and more.

April 1st, 2021

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Assessing your Audience’s Data Fluency

Data Fluency is defined as the exchange of ideas with data as the medium. Depending on an individual’s degree of data fluency, how information is shared with them will influence their understanding and data usage.

April 1st, 2021

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The ICD-10 Deadline Has Now Passed—Now What?!!

With the ICD-10 deadline just behind us, it is clear that ongoing competency maintenance and remediation will be key factors in optimizing the revenue cycle long term.

April 1st, 2021

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Improve Provider Processes and Provider Data Management with Echo

Provider data management must become a core competency for healthcare organizations, underpinning a multitude of critical processes to boost care quality, admissions, revenues, and patient and provider satisfaction.

April 1st, 2021

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Ten Things We Know about Readmissions: E-Book and Paper

In the nearly three years the program has been in place, hospitals and regulators alike have learned a great deal about readmissions and the key factors driving them. We have even witnessed some unintended consequences from the HRRP. This paper discusses ten things that are important to know about readmissions.

April 1st, 2021

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A New Approach to Physician Employment

What will success look like in this new era of physician employment? We need to create a culture where hospital and physician goals intersect.

April 1st, 2021

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Year-Round Focus is Key to Improving Physician Satisfaction & Engagement

Physician survey results are invaluable for hospital leadership as they work to understand and improve nursing, operations, and quality of care.

April 1st, 2021

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Learn More about Solutions to the Readmissions Challenge: E-Book

Readmissions and medical errors are a common and expensive problem. But what are the key drivers and how can they be addressed? What are the real costs and consequences of such error? And how does post-acute care impact the trend?

April 1st, 2021

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Provider Enrollment: Survey Suggests a New Revenue Cycle Imperative

HealthStream examines the new environment for Provider Enrollment and its implications for healthcare leaders and presents new research collected in early 2015 by HealthStream from 130 credentialing executives throughout the U.S.

April 1st, 2021

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