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Leadership Rounding

3 min read

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, with an empathetic experience, that will result in the best clinical outcomes. Since most of the...

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2019 Hurricane season predictions

2 min read

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

2 min read

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

3 min read

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

2 min read

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

4 min read

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

3 min read

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

2 min read

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

3 min read

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

3 min read

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

2 min read

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

2 min read

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

3 min read

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

3 min read

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

2 min read

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

2 min read

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

2 min read

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

3 min read

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

2 min read

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

3 min read

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

3 min read

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

3 min read

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

2 min read

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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Patient Rounding

3 min read

Quality Versus Quantity in Patient Rounding

The roots of patient rounding can be traced back to a medical center in Birmingham, AL in the late 1980s.2 After many years of this concept in...

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