Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) affect one in 25 patients according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. HAI prevention is one of the most effective ways health care facility managers can improve patient outcomes and decrease costs.
Aging is an uncomfortable topic that people have struggled to discuss since ancient times. That same discomfort exists in organizational diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, too, and failing to face it head-on may result in age discrimination complaints. While many CEOs experience success with overall D&I programs, a PwC study found only 8 percent of CEOs target age-related D&I in their policies.
Your health care worker compliance rates can be a matter of life and death. If they —from custodians to surgeons—don’t understand why safety procedures and regulations are important to them and follow those policies appropriately, patients could pay the ultimate price.
With healthcare costs rising again in 2018, businesses are looking for ways to keep employees healthy. Addressing health behaviors upstream–prevention–is far less costly than paying for treatments. But you already know that.
The Affordable Care Act, rising costs of care, growing numbers of baby-boomers needing increased care – there are a lot of reasons why healthcare recruitment efforts offer more great healthcare jobs than there are great candidates right now.
Mergers, consolidation and closures make thoughtful organizational branding crucial for any healthcare system or hospital group to engage and retain patients, as well as recruit top physicians and nurses.
Here are the key factors you should consider to establish and maintain an effective brand strategy.
As the healthcare industry shifts to a value-based system, the need to increase patient engagement is at the forefront. After all, a growing body of evidence supports the notion that improved patient engagement is directly linked to positive outcomes and lower costs.
Before we reveal the latest patient engagement trends and strategies it’s important to quickly discuss what factors drive patient engagement.
When LinkedIn learned that one in three parents don’t understand what their children do for work, the company created Bring In Your Parents Work Day. (Google has been doing this since 2012 in an appropriately massive Google way.)
In the last post we discussed how to prepare for an interview. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you’re ready for the 10 o’clock news. So, um…uh, let’s…like…begin?
