HealthStream Launches American Red Cross Resuscitation Suite for Healthcare Providers
January 17, 2019 at 09:25 am
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HealthStream announced the launch of the American Red Cross Resuscitation Suite™, comprised of Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Life Support (ALS), and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) competency-development curricula. The Red Cross Resuscitation Suite offers certification to healthcare professionals successfully demonstrating proficiency of life-saving resuscitation knowledge and skills. The new Resuscitation Suite was developed by Red Cross healthcare and education experts in conjunction with HealthStream. The two organizations are dedicated to working together to improve resuscitation outcomes. Each year, more than 200,000 adult cardiac arrests occur in U.S. hospitals—and, on average, less than 26% survive. The launch of the Red Cross Resuscitation Suite brings an updated, highly adaptive, competency-development solution to healthcare professionals, offering a new standard of resuscitation quality and competency. Each of the three curricula (BLS, ALS, PALS) incorporates an adaptive learning approach with pre-assessments, facilitating more impactful, personalized learning plans with targeted competency development. This approach saves time and increases learning effectiveness and student engagement. Moreover, a series of instructive videos and simulations are incorporated in the curricula—using real-life physicians, nurses, and other healthcare staff working in actual hospitals, adding to the realism of the learning experience. To earn the Red Cross official certificate affirming competency of resuscitation knowledge and skills, the curricula requires a skills check. The skills check within the curricula can be completed using an interoperable manikin or through a Red Cross-certified instructor. Currently, HealthStream has partnered with two global manikin companies, Innosonian America, Inc. and Ambu, to distribute their respective manikins. Innosonian America is the first company to achieve interoperability of its manikins and be designated as hStream certified. Transforming the standard of care for cardiac arrest patients to result in better outcomes has been a decades-long focus of the Red Cross, evidenced most recently by the creation of its Innovation Council and leadership from its Scientific Advisory Council.
HealthStream, Inc. provides platform-delivered workforce solutions. Its solutions include Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), subscription-based applications used by healthcare organizations to meet a range of their workforce development needs around learning, clinical development, credentialing, and scheduling. Its content libraries allow customers to subscribe to an array of courseware, which includes content from healthcare and nursing associations, medical and healthcare publishers, and other content providers. Its scheduling solutions provide customers with real-time visibility into clinical staff scheduling. Its credentialing, privileging, and enrollment solution, CredentialStream, provides customers a user experience with a continual stream of enhancements, evidence-based content, and curated data, which provides healthcare organizations with tools to support the provider lifecycle management from recruiting, application submission, verification of licensure, and other credentials.