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Case Studies
LTC facilities have many training challenges.
Learn how Care2Learn provided real-life training solutions.
As the leading provider of online continuing education for the long-term healthcare industry, Care2Learn is committed to delivering practical, cost-effective solutions to address your unique training needs. The following case studies illustrate how partnering with Care2Learn enabled each facility to reduce costs, enhance efficiency and ensure compliance with regulatory guidelines through the implementation of a customized and fully-hosted online university. Care2Learn’s comprehensive course library is comprised of the highest-quality CE content in the industry, and we are consistently adding new courses and inservices to help your licensed and non-licensed staff keep pace with a continually evolving industry. Click on each company name below to access the case study.
Challenges:
- Employees unable to attend inservices due to scheduling conflicts
- Training time was taking away from work time
- Employees unable to fully focus on training
- Orientation for new employees was inconsistent due to training difficulties
Results:
With the help of Care2Learn and HCF University, HCF facilities are now able to offer quality training to all employees that is consistent across the organization. Care2Learn courses are authored and reviewed by top industry experts, and content is updated and added automatically as new regulatory compliance guidelines go into effect. The ease and accessibility of their Care2Learn online university has solved Hempfield’s inservice attendance problem, as employees are now able to participate in the courses and inservices they need without taking away from time spent caring for patients.
Challenges:
- High cost of training
- Tracking the training of employees
- Ensuring compliance with increasingly stringent regulations
Results:
“Our industry is constantly changing, and rules and regulations are becoming more stringent every day,” said MaRanda Wilhite, CHC, Director of Compliance for Jordan Health Services. “Moving to an automated training strategy that is easily accessed in an online environment has enabled us to keep up better with staff training, and has helped us ensure timely compliance with the guidelines of regulatory bodies. Our training costs have decreased dramatically, and our online university lets us deliver customized, consistent training that reflects our brand to everyone we train. In addition, by using the university’s reporting features, we can now track the training needs and the progress of our employees with ease.”
Challenges:
- Retaining a full-time nurse to administer training at company offices was costly
- Existing computer-based training could only be accessed in the company’s offices
- Too many man-hours devoted to providing and tracking training
Results:
With a decade of Hospice and Palliative care under her belt and significant experience in Clinical Management and public health, Shawn Swanson was tasked with broadening the knowledge base of the VNA’s associates and increasing their strengths through agency-wide strategic assessments, planning, and educational interventions. One of the things she recognized immediately was that automating the delivery and tracking of courses could pay off handsomely for the VNA of the Treasure Coast in numerous ways.
Swanson reports that implementing a Care2Learn online university allowed the VNA to offer timely training to both licensed and unlicensed employees as a benefit of employment – a gesture that was well received by staff members and serves as an incentive for those considering a career with the VNA. Additionally, she says it is much easier to ensure that everyone has completed their required education, and they are able to verify compliance with the various regulating boards that govern the industry.
The Care2Learn library is stocked with accredited courses to serve VNA’s staff of approximately 268 licensed professionals, and includes the industry’s largest selection of inservices for their unlicensed staff –approximately 130 employees – as well. While the online university reflects only the VNA of the Treasure Coast, Care2Learn ensures that courses are updated or added automatically as new regulatory compliance guidelines go into effect. That way, VNA staff isn’t scrambling for quality training resources when new mandates are issued.
Challenges:
- Classroom presentation training posed scheduling difficulties and was poorly attended
- Inconsistent course content and delivery
- Expensive and inefficient
Results:
“This is the third company where I’ve been instrumental in setting up a Care2Learn Online University, and I don’t hesitate in recommending it,” said Edwards. “Our Care2Learn-backed online university has drastically reduced the cost of training for Guardian, and it lets employees take the courses they need at their convenience. The interface is very intuitive, so all the employees are enjoying it, and we’ve found our nurses, therapists and social workers really appreciate being able to get their CEUs as a benefit of employment.”