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The 4 Main Causes of Physician Burnout

In over 1600 hours of one-on-one coaching experience with burned out physicians, here are the five causes of burnout I see commonly.

April 1st, 2021

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What is Service Recovery in Healthcare?

Service recovery in healthcare is the process of making things right after something has gone wrong with the healthcare experience. Learn more from HealthStream.

April 1st, 2021

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Physician Burnout is A Problem We Must Address Now

The epidemic of physician burnout may be the single largest negative influence on many organizations culture performance and profitability.

April 1st, 2021

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Taking Charge with Nurse Leader Education

If organizations need compelling reasons to invest in their nurses, they need look no further than the extensive research showing that developing nurses as leaders leads to improvements in employee satisfaction and increases the quality of care.

April 1st, 2021

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CHI’s Standard Expectations, Local Flexibility Key to Favorable Transition of Care Ratings

CHI is partnering with post-acute providers in communities. According to Miller, “Designing a continuing care network with providers having aligned goals of quality and education has had a powerful impact for our consumers.”

April 1st, 2021

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Possible Solutions to Transition of Care Issues and Problems

In this article, we ask several important questions about care transitions and how they can lead to unnecessary hospital readmissions. They include (1) What makes care transition points so difficult and (2) Why are the “hand-offs” prone to issues? Several points of vulnerability and solutions are addressed.

April 1st, 2021

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Frequent Practice and Real-Time Feedback are Keys to Improved Resuscitation

In this PX Advisor feature article, HealthStream takes a look at the practice of resuscitation. Many of us have perceptions from popular television shows that resuscitation is almost always effective; however, the truth is that we are really not as good at resuscitating as you might think. Currently, we are only able to revive about 19% of those with in-hospital cardiac arrest.

April 1st, 2021

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Make a Patient-Centric Culture the Focus of the ED

Along the journey, hospital and ED leaders must always remember that their entire effort and focus must revolve around the patient and their families. Every initiative put in place and every element we attempt to optimize is done so in an effort to create a patient-centered culture.

April 1st, 2021

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Three More Things to Know About Readmissions

Hospitals with readmission rates that exceed the national average are penalized by a reduction in payments across all of their Medicare admissions—not just those which resulted in readmissions. CMS began imposing penalties in FY2013 when the maximum penalty was 1% of the hospital’s base inpatient claims.

April 1st, 2021

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What One Chief Medical Officer is Thinking About Readmissions

The key is to take multiple steps to prevent a readmission. We need to be focused on plans for discharge as soon as the patient is admitted. You can’t wait until the day before. You need to try to have everything in place before the patient leaves the hospital.

April 1st, 2021

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Meeting the Training Requirements of Corporate Integrity Agreements

A CIA requires significant attention, data collection, legal defense, negotiation, new systems, new policies, oversight, and enforcement, possibly for many years. Healthcare facilities of all types, including hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturers, long-term care, physician groups, and more have all seen increases in CIAs. Yet, these organizations often struggle with what to do if a recipient of one.

April 1st, 2021

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Three Things to Know About Readmissions

CMS began imposing a penalty on hospitals with excessive Medicare readmissions in FY2013 (October 1, 2012) as part of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP). CMS defines a “readmission” as someone who has been readmitted to the same or another acute care facility within 30 days of an initial hospital stay.

April 1st, 2021

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Magnet Designation: Is It Worth It?

The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program® honors hospitals for excellence in nursing leadership, clinical practice, innovations, and positive outcomes. The current program has its roots in a ground-breaking study conducted by the American Academy of Nursing over 30 years ago.

April 1st, 2021

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Transforming Healthcare with Evidence-Based Practice

Gone are the days of the fee-for-service model. Enter the Value-based Purchasing (VBP) model, where the care you deliver and the patient outcomes you achieve determine the amount of reimbursement the institution or healthcare professional receives. Patient outcomes and safety are the top priorities in healthcare. The challenge every healthcare institution and healthcare professional faces each day is how to provide cost-effective, evidence-based patient care that improves patient outcomes.

April 1st, 2021

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The Growing Need for Care Coordination

Faced with mounting costs, the need to prepare for the coming storm, and the data supporting the implementation of care coordination and service integration processes, many organizations have already begun to address the need for care coordination during the 30 days following discharge. That window is critical for a couple of reasons.

April 1st, 2021

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Standards of Performance Examples for Healthcare: Safety Awareness and Sense of Ownership

This blog post continues our series of HealthStream Coaching's patient experience best practices. Every week we share information from our coaches that demonstrates their expansive understanding of the challenges faced by healthcare organizations and the solutions they have identified for improving the patient experience and patient and business outcomes. This week we examine standards for safety awareness and sense of ownership.

April 1st, 2021

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Standards of Performance Examples for Healthcare: Elevator Etiquette and Privacy

This blog post continues our series of HealthStream Coaching's patient experience best practices. Every week we share information from our coaches that demonstrates their expansive understanding of the challenges faced by healthcare organizations and the solutions they have identified for improving the patient experience and patient and business outcomes. This week we examine standards for elevator etiquette and privacy.

April 1st, 2021

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Standards of Performance Examples for Healthcare: Commitment to Coworkers - Customer Waiting

This blog post continues our series of HealthStream Coaching's patient experience best practices. Every week we share information from our coaches that demonstrates their expansive understanding of the challenges faced by healthcare organizations and the solutions they have identified for improving the patient experience and patient and business outcomes. This week we examine standards for commitment to coworkers and customer waiting.

April 1st, 2021

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Specific Healthcare Standards of Performance Examples: Attitude and Appearance

This blog post continues our series of HealthStream Coaching's patient experience best practices. As we look at best practices for using healthcare standards of performance, we will share some specific examples. This week we examine standards for attitude and appearance.

April 1st, 2021

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10 Lessons Learned from Multiple Magnet® Journeys

This blog post is an excerpt from an article by Gen Guanci, MEd, RN-BC, CCRN, Creative Health Care Management, in the current issue of PX Alert, HealthStream's quarterly e-newsletter devoted to the wide range of challenges, situations, and issues that have an impact on the patient experience. Subscribe to PX Alert. From work with both national and international Magnet®-aspiring and Magnet®-designated organizations, here are her top 10 lessons learned.

April 1st, 2021

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