Our Strategic Alliances

• 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 patients well being. Sodexo also supports doctors, nurses, and non-clinical staff to enhance the healing process.


• The Caring Model ™
improves quality of care and increases patient, family, employee and physician satisfaction and engagement. Whether it be patient or employee, satisfaction has become an important indicator to measure the quality of care, loyalty and financial success of an organization. Those organizations that provide quality care and 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 USA, 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 their Leading Empowered Organizations program.


• Compass Group
Compass Group delivers customized consulting by senior health professionals in integratable service lines dealing with interim healthcare management, margin improvement, accreditation and compliance services, executive and leadership services, and clinical excellence.


• Consultants Consortium
The Consultant's Consortium is an association of health care consultants, entrepreneurs and small business owners who are committed to transform health care, to market services and build a virtually supported and streamlined business infrastructure.


• Halogen Software
Halogen Software provides award winning talent management solutions that address the needs of healthcare organizations. Exclusively endorsed by the AHA, Halogen eAppraisal™ Healthcare, the foundation of our suite, helps automate, simplify and integrate the performance appraisal and competency assessment processes, build targeted development plans, job descriptions and more. Over 700 healthcare 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 level. 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.


• 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. We provide products and services that enable people to transform stress, better regulate emotional responses and harness the power of heart/brain communication. Through our training programs, coaching, publications, licensing programs and innovative technology we provide practical, scientifically validated methods that enable people to live more rewarding, healthy and productive lives personally and professionally.


• Jean Watson: Theory of Human Caring
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.


• 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
Professional speaker and author, Marcus Engel provides insight and strategies for excellent and compassionate 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 Resource Group
Management Research Group is an international firm that specializes in assessment-based human resource development. We 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 - healthcare 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 healthcare professionals with the skills to be able to meet the challenges of today's ever changing healthcare culture. Our programs are full of practical hints and tips that will help those that attend to become more proficient in their roles and to grow professionally and personally.