Our Affiliations
Creative Health Care Management partners with leading organizations with shared values and complementary services when the need arises to provide turnkey service from start to finish. For more information about the vital services provided by our strategic alliance partners or for information on becoming a partner, call CHCM at 1.800.728.7766. Current partners include:
Sodexo
Sodexo Health Care Services provides essential food and facilities services to hospitals across the country. Sodexo implements programs, systems, and procedures that allow hospital staff to stay focused on the well-being of patients. Sodexo also supports doctors, nurses, and non-clinical staff to enhance the healing process.
The Caring Model™
The Caring Model™ improves quality of care and increases patient, family, employee, and physician satisfaction and engagement. Patient and employee satisfaction are important indicators measuring the quality of care, loyalty, and financial success of an organization. Those organizations that provide quality care, have high levels of staff engagement, and have high satisfaction scores have a distinct competitive advantage in the current health care environment. For more information, email Sharon Dingman: sharondingman@aol.com.
Centre for the Development of Healthcare Policy and Practice
With a reputation for excellence throughout the UK, Ireland, and the U.S., the Centre for the Development of Healthcare Policy and Practice supports individuals, teams, and organizations to meet the challenges and make the breakthroughs necessary to deliver a high quality service. In November, 2005, CDHPP celebrated 100,000 participants taking part in their Leading Empowered Organizations program.
Halogen Software
Halogen Software provides award winning talent management solutions that address the needs of health care organizations. Exclusively endorsed by the AHA, Halogen eAppraisal™ Healthcare helps automate, simplify, and integrate the performance appraisal and competency assessment processes, build targeted development plans, clarify job descriptions, and more. Over 700 health care facilities already benefit from Halogen Software’s talent management solutions.
Healthcare Environment, Inc.
Healthcare Environment, Inc. is a company owned and operated by nurses who have developed unique research methods to define the work environment of the staff nurse at both the aggregate and unit levels. Validity, reliability, presentation of the data, and on-line support facilitate judgment and decision-making for those who are striving to improve the work environment of the staff nurse. John W. Nelson, MS, RN is Healthcare Environment’s President.
HealthStream
HealthStream’s innovative learning solutions are supporting health care organizations’ mission-critical training and business objectives including a safer organization for patient care through regulatory training, workforce development for hospital staff, and facilitating rapid adoption of new technologies for better patient outcomes.
HeartMath
HeartMath LLC is dedicated to improving health, performance, and well-being at home and in the workplace. HeartMath provides products and services that enable people to transform stress, better regulate emotional responses, and harness the power of heart/brain communication. Through their training programs, coaching, publications, licensing programs, and innovative technology they provide practical, scientifically validated methods that enable people to live more rewarding, healthy, and productive lives both personally and professionally.
The Katharine J. Densford International Center for Nursing Leadership
The Densford Center seeks to improve health and health care worldwide through the education, collaboration, and promotion of nurses as strong leaders and effective partners. As both a think tank and action center, we foster nursing leadership and promote the nursing profession through a variety of programs, services, and forums.
Marcus Engel
As a professional speaker and author, Marcus Engel provides insight and strategies for compassionate, high-quality patient care. Blinded and traumatically injured by a drunk driver, Engel’s experiences at the other end of the stethoscope offer practical tips for health care professionals as well as honoring the commitment made every day to the profession.
Management Research Group
Management Research Group is an international firm that specializes in assessment-based human resource development. They are a leader in creating high-quality assessment tools for selection and development in the areas of leadership, management, career development, personal growth, and sales force effectiveness.
University of Minnesota Center for Spirituality and Healing
The University of Minnesota’s Center for Spirituality and Healing is a national leader in integrative medicine. The Center provides interdisciplinary education, outreach, and patient services and integrates evidence-based research in order to renew, enhance, and transform health care practice, health sciences education, and patient care.
Visioning HealthCare
The mission of Visioning HealthCare is to create and deliver programs that equip nurses and other health care professionals with the skills to meet the challenges of today’s ever changing health care cultures. Our programs are full of practical hints and tips that will help those who attend to become more proficient in their roles and to grow both professionally and personally.
Watson Caring Science Institute
Caring science encompasses a humanitarian, human science orientation to human caring processes, phenomena, and experiences. Caring science includes arts and humanities as well as science. Caring science investigations embrace inquiries that are reflective, subjective, and interpretative as well as objective-empirical.
