Community Health Systems Selects American Red Cross Resuscitation Suite™ Program in Enterprise-wide Agreement with HealthStream

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NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HealthStream (NASDAQ: HSTM) announced today that CHSPSC, LLC (CHS), an affiliate of Community Health Systems, Inc. (NYSE: CYH), one of the nation’s leading operators of general acute care hospitals, has entered into a seven-year agreement with HealthStream to utilize the American Red Cross Resuscitation Suite™ program, enterprise-wide, for resuscitation skills training and certification, which will be provided through HealthStream’s workforce platform. “When HealthStream first offered a self-certification model of resuscitation training, CHS was one of the first organizations to adopt and benefit from the program,” said Lynn T. Simon, M.D., President of Clinical Operations and Chief Medical Officer of Community Health Systems. Methodologies prior to the Red Cross Resuscitation Suite™ program deliver the same curriculum to every “student,” understandably frustrating those starting with more advanced skill levels—including many physicians—who are forced to train and certify along a “least common denominator” approach to learning. At the end of the day, better training increases the odds of better outcomes for patients—and we are always committed to efforts that can improve safety, quality, and patient care.” CHS’s new partnership role in the HealthStream Resuscitation Innovation Lab includes serving as a member of the Red Cross Innovation Council and collaborating with HealthStream to conduct and report research on process adoption and outcomes related to the Red Cross Resuscitation Suite™ program. “Through these initiatives, CHS will continue to play a leading role in advancing science that is focused on improving patient outcomes,” said Wayne T. Smith, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, of Community Health Systems.

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