Health coaching is the fastest growing workforce strategy in healthcare, today. There is clear reason. Most healthcare occurs outside the provider office–95% or more. To be truly effective, healthcare providers must get to that 95%. Inspiring patient accountability, building patient self-care skills and prompting best health behaviors is the brass ring to achieving outcomes. Recognizing […]
Cardiac Rehab Nurse Finds Promise in Clinical Health Coach Training Online
Denise Promes, a Cardiac Rehabilitation Nurse and Diabetes Educator with Greene County Medical Center in Jefferson, Iowa, shares her experience with the Clinical Health Coach training online program this past summer. As a Cardiac Rehabilitation Nurse for over 23 years, I wanted a new way to interact with patients to help them achieve their goals […]
Minnesota Healthcare Pro Finds Affirmation in Clinical Health Coaching Training Program
Dan Schletty went to work as a health and wellness coach with Riverwood Healthcare Center in February 2013, one month before the North Central Minnesota system spearheaded the launch of a new clinical health-coaching program. Riverwood operates a 25-bed critical access hospital serving Aitkin County and surrounding communities, with full-service primary care clinics in Aitkin, […]