Keeping employees trained appropriately and their skills and competencies up-to-date is a constant challenge for hospitals and health care providers. Add on the expenses associated with developing curriculum and the difficulty of scheduling, and it is easy to understand why health care providers are looking for alternatives to traditional training methods. CareLearning.com offers an education management solution for providers looking to diversify their training and education opportunities. Developed by the American Hospital Association and a consortium of hospital associations, including the Michigan Health & Hospital Association (MHA), careLearning.com enhances the capabilities of your health care organization to obtain timely, relevant, cost-effective education.

careLearning.com is the Smart Choice for Demanding, Cost-conscious Organizations because it Offers:

  • around-the-clock access to the most common mandatory courses for health care employees that help the hospital in compliance with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Joint Commission Standards
  • a comprehensive, easy-to-use employee tracking and management system that verifies competencies " courses that meet mandatory licensure and certification requirements
  • the option to customize mandatory course content to your individual hospital's needs and to add private courses that are written by your organization
  • education designed in a multimedia format that engages students in a complex thinking, not just a true/false or multiple question test

Health and Safety Compliance

Does your organization struggle with how to efficiently and effectively offer mandatory personnel health and safety training? careLearning.com provides a series of 17 health and safety training modules to assist your organization in complying with The Joint Commission and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requirements. In addition, this careLearning.com subscription package also includes access to a state-of-the-art management system to track employee progress.

The health and safety modules include:

  • population specific care – pediatrics
  • population specific care - adults
  • bloodborne pathogens
  • disaster preparedness
  • electrical safety
  • fire safety
  • hazard communication
  • moving and lifting (includes safe patient lifting)
  • patient rights
  • restraint (additional course on seclusion also available)
  • slips, trips and falls
  • isolation and standard precautions
  • Tuberculosis prevention
  • abuse and neglect
  • medical radiation safety (includes MRI safety)
  • hand hygiene
  • infection prevention and control for non-clinical employees

The complete package is available to organizations for an annual subscription fee based on the number of participating employees:

  • $10 per employee for the first 1,000 employees ($2,500 minimum)
  • $5 for each employee over 1,000

Administrative Management System

careLearning.com has developed a cutting-edge system to make the employee enrollment process and record tracking simple. The Administrative Management System (AMS) is a software-based system that careLearning.com administrators receive with the Health and Safety Compliance series. The AMS allows organizations to:

  • track professional licenses, licensure renewal and certificates, including the capability to run reports by license type and expiration date
  • use the program as a complete meeting management package to store demographic information and print rosters, name badges, certificates and mailing labels for educational events
  • use the identification (ID) badge scanner to simply scan an individual's ID badge or the event roster to record attendance
  • print employee-specific reports that include all mandatory and continuing education courses, live events and license and certificate information
  • use the automatic curriculum feature to determine what courses are appropriate for an employee by department and job code

Catalog of Courses

The extensive careLearning.com course catalog includes nursing, patient care, business management and compliance courses. These courses are available for purchase online, and can be purchased by a group and customized to the needs of your facility.

Series of courses are also offered that are designed to increase quality and compliance in health care. Topics include:

  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
  • Nursing Assistant Professional Development
  • Dietary Training
  • Bioterrorism
  • Materials Management
  • Risk Management

To view the catalog of courses visit www.careLearning.com

Find Out More

Check out the free demo courses and the new careLearning.com brochure at www.careLearning.com.

The MHA Health Foundation can provide your organization with a free, no-obligation, 30-day trial subscription. To learn more about the trial subscription or careLearning.com's benefits, contact Erin Steward at the MHA Health Foundation at (517) 323-3443.