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How To Choose A Partner To Help Enhance Your Patient And Family Education Strategy

How To Choose A Partner To Help Enhance Your Patient And Family Education Strategy

It is the goal of all hospitals to make our patients and our communities healthier. As part of that, hospitals must become trusted partners in their patients’ pursuit of health and wellness. This begins with education. And when the patient is a child in the NICU or PICU, education becomes especially important for parents and…

Leveraging education for parents with children in intensive care to improve care plan compliance and enhance key quality initiatives

Leveraging education for parents with children in intensive care to improve care plan compliance and enhance key quality initiatives

Millions of children are admitted to intensive care units each year for critical conditions, accidents, or surgeries. Besides the physical pain, the experience can cause emotional trauma as well. The fear, anxiety, and shock can be overwhelming for patients and their families. Often many families struggle with a sense of frustration and helplessness. Studies show that when parents and families are more educated about their child’s health conditions and care plans, they take a more active role in that care.

Leveraging Education to Improve Care Plan Compliance and Enhance Key Quality Initiatives

Leveraging Education to Improve Care Plan Compliance and Enhance Key Quality Initiatives

Millions of people enter the hospital each year for critical conditions, accidents, or surgeries. Besides the physical pain, the experience can cause emotional trauma as well. The fear, anxiety, and shock can be overwhelming. The patient’s family often struggles with a sense of frustration and helplessness. For families of neonates in NICUs, those feelings can…

5 Opportunities To Improve Post-Discharge Education For Parents Of Neonates

5 Opportunities To Improve Post-Discharge Education For Parents Of Neonates

An article published in the Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings stated, “In the context of escalating health care costs and shocking future cost projections, the potential for improved health outcomes through patient education and self-management programs is immense.”[1] At the heart of this idea, according to the authors, is patient engagement. Nowhere is this more true…

Three Virtual Technologies that Enhance Parental Engagement and Improve NICU Outcomes

Three Virtual Technologies that Enhance Parental Engagement and Improve NICU Outcomes

One of life’s greatest joys is having a baby. However, when the baby is born prematurely, that joy can be overshadowed by anxiety and stress. On top of the concern for the baby’s health, parents can feel overwhelming insecure about leaving their newborn in the hospital. Especially while getting back to their normal life routines,…

Breaking Down Barriers to Care

Breaking Down Barriers to Care

The New Role of Virtual Care Technology in Removing Barriers and Improving Connectivity Between Providers, Patients, and Families Access to quality care is one of the major challenges facing our healthcare system today. Rural areas—home to one in five Americans—are particularly hard hit as hospitals and other clinical resources leave smaller communities in an effort…