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Patient Satisfaction and Patient Experience

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Elevating Patient Satisfaction and the Patient Experience

There is a lot of focus on patient satisfaction and experience in healthcare, and for good reason. Patient Experience is a key contributor to overall hospital quality measures and insurance reimbursements. In addition, patient satisfaction and...

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Leadership Rounding

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Leadership Rounding Equals Staff Engagement

A large number of leaders in healthcare agree that staff engagement within a hospital is an essential component for delivering quality patient care,...

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2019 Hurricane season predictions

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Servicers get ready … NOAA predicts another “above-normal” hurricane season

The 2019 hurricane season is already off to a troubling start with Hurricane Dorian having caused an estimated $1.5 billion to $3 billion in...

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Innovative Technology for caregivers

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Evidence Based Healthcare with Innovative Technology

Healthcare organizations have recognized that to keep pace with industry growth, regulatory requirements, and increased responsibilities, caregivers...

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Care coordination roadblocks

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Care Coordination Roadblocks: Need A Strategy?

At the core of its mission, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) strive to achieve the highest level of quality care for patients, thereby reducing...

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Joint Commission Preparedness

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Joint Commission Preparedness: The Success Strategy to Improve Results

As part of their continuous efforts for healthcare facilities to achieve zero harm, the Joint Commission conducts an on-site accreditation survey at...

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Patient Safety Concerns

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A Data Driven Approach to Patient Safety

We all know, providing a safe environment for patients to recover is a fundamental part of offering quality patient care that fosters the best...

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Hospital Concerns and Solutions

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3 Hospital System Concerns and the Solutions to Manage Them

Despite ongoing government initiatives for policy and regulation, the healthcare industry continues to grow exponentially. Hospitals must be nimble,...

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Vendor Management

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Don’t Put Your Vendor Partnerships at Risk as Innovation Progresses

A lot of industry attention is currently focused on the finish line for the digitizing of the mortgage business, with mortgage lenders, servicers,...

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Stress Relief for Nurses

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Mindfulness - Stress Relief That Leads to Better Patient Care

Salary.com conducted a recent survey, compiling a list of the top 10 most stressful jobs. Nursing ranked #6. Surprising to some, but not to those...

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Workflow for Loan Servicing

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The Value of Workflow When Pursuing Digitization for Loan Servicing

The mortgage industry’s latest buzz word is “digital mortgage,” a novel term for the ongoing pursuit to remove paper from the process. However, this...

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Government Mandates

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The Cost of Government Mandates

In a recent blog, we highlighted an American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) survey addressing the top issues confronting hospitals today. It...

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Celebrate Patient Experience Week

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Celebrating Those Who Make Patient Experience a Success

In 2014, The Beryl Institute introduced ‘Patient Experience Week’ as a time to recognize healthcare staff that have an impact on patient’s...

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Workflow Automation Technology

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How to Use Automation to Drive More Business to Your Organization

The industry continues to hunger for technology to improve workflow, as well as streamline and automate operational efficiencies. While these...

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Challenges facing hospital CEOs

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The Top Challenge Facing Hospital CEOs

In today’s healthcare industry, hospital CEOs face numerous challenges that can disrupt the balance between providing patients with exceptional...

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patient experience

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3 Tips to Improve Patient Experience Today

Has your team struggled with improving the patient experience at your hospital? Are you overwhelmed by the possible strategies to employ in order to...

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Patient Rounding

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Rounding on Patients - How Do You Make Them Feel?

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou Let’s...

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Property Rehab Post Disaster

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The Ongoing Challenge of Collateral Rehab on Disaster-Stricken Properties

Over the past few months, Clarifire has published meaningful discussions on the numerous requirements mortgage servicers have taken on to manage...

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happy patient experience

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Is Your Rounding Solution Letting You Down?

Rounding has proven to be an effective practice in determining the level of patient satisfaction and improving the overall patient experience. Many...

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Consistent Rounding

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Consistent Rounding Leads to Increased HCAHPS Scores

HCAHPS – who knew that six letters could have such an impact on an organization? Low HCAHPS scores can result in a loss of revenue, an unfavorable...

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Disaster Relief

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How Are You Handling Disaster Relief Demand?

Is hurricane season over? Not if you’re a loan servicer. Given the skyrocketing amount of devastation caused by hurricanes, wildfires, flooding and...

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Are you disaster ready?

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Is Your Team Disaster Relief Ready?

What does it mean to be disaster ready? As a servicer you’re already juggling a variety of change initiatives at any given time, with unreasonably...

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Disaster Relief

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Are Your Operational Processes Up For The Disaster Relief Challenge?

The end of this year’s hurricane season is less than two months away; however, with hurricane Florence barely in our rearview, are your operational...

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Exhausted Nurse Leader

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Top 3 Challenges for Nurse Leaders

Waking up each morning after a restful night’s sleep, is a great way to start the day. You’re energized and ready to tackle what comes your way....

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OAS CAHPS

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How to Get the "Yes" Response from Patients on OAS CAHPS

Despite the fact that OAS CAHPS are still voluntary, their eventual mandate could be right around the corner. To achieve top scores, it’s not as...

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