APS Selected as North Shore-LIJ Health System’s Preferred Vendor for Online Education

March 21, 2011 - PRLog -- Boston, MA, March 21, 2011—Advanced Practice Strategies (APS), a leading provider of education solutions for risk management and patient safety, today announced they have been selected to partner with the North Shore-LIJ Health System Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology as their preferred vendor for online education.

North Shore-LIJ, a thought-leader in the healthcare industry with 15 hospitals throughout the New York metropolitan area and headquarters in Great Neck, NY, is partnering with APS to provide its clinical staff with access to APS’s innovative courseware, including a curriculum focused on Perinatal Safety.   These interactive, team-oriented courses focus on clinical challenges and critical elements of communication and include Advanced Fetal Assessment and Monitoring, Managing Shoulder Dystocia, and Postpartum Hemorrhage. Demonstrating their commitment to lifelong learning, North Shore-LIJ has also selected APS’s engaging Competency Maintenance courses, designed to keep clinicians’ skills sharp through clinically rich case study modules with immediate feedback and access to remedial materials.

For more information about APS and APS courses, visit www.aps-web.com. For more information about North Shore-LIJ Health System, please visit www.northshorelij.com.


About North Shore-LIJ Health System
The nation's second-largest, non-profit, secular healthcare system, North Shore-LIJ is an integrated academic health system that delivers world-class clinical care throughout the New York metropolitan area, pioneering research at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and a visionary approach to medical education, highlighted by the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine. The winner of the National Quality Forum’s 2010 National Quality Healthcare Award, North Shore-LIJ cares for people at every stage of life at 15 hospitals, including two specialty centers nationally renowned for their pediatric and psychiatric care – Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York and Zucker Hillside Hospital. The health system’s 110 residency and fellowship programs serve as a training ground for more than 1,200 future physicians, many of whom hone their skills at North Shore-LIJ’s Patient Safety Institute – one of the nation’s largest patient simulation centers. As evidence of its commitment to community health and patient-focused research, Feinstein Institute scientists and North Shore-LIJ physicians enroll more than 1,200 people every year in clinical research studies. North Shore-LIJ’s owned hospitals and long-term care facilities house about 5,600 beds, employ more than 10,000 nurses and have affiliations with more than 9,000 physicians. Its workforce of about 42,000 is the largest on Long Island and the ninth-largest in New York City. For more information, go to www.northshorelij.com.

Media Contact:
Terry Lynam
516-465-2640/2600
tlynam@nshs.edu

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About APS
Advanced Practice Strategies (APS) is dedicated to improving the lives of both patients and their caregivers through effective, innovative education solutions. APS’s flexible, state-of-the-art eLearning program has helped hospitals and clinicians reduce risk and enhance patient safety across the country. APS’s Demonstrative Evidence Group is the nation's leading provider of visual strategies and materials for courtroom defense against medical malpractice claims. Strategic partners include the Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions and the Hospital Corporation of America. APS is headquartered in Boston, MA. For more information, visit www.aps-web.com.

Media Contact:
info@aps-web.com