Apex Innovations, the company that delivers high-quality, evidence-based continuing education programs for healthcare professionals, was featured on local news station KLFY on Wednesday. Apex Innovations President and Founder, Marianne Bourgeois, BSN, RN, and Senior Vice president, Brian White were featured in this exciting news clip viewable here:

The entire company was started by Bourgeois in 2003. Apex Innovations operates with a well-oiled team of 15 employees. According to White, “We have so many projects going on, we hope to expand in the future.”

Apex Innovations, the company that delivers high-quality, evidence-based continuing education programs for healthcare professionals, today announced the launch of a new online continuing education course, Heart Failure – Focused^TM. This amazingly interactive program is a spin-off of the Transitions^® Heart Failure Competency Series, also offered by Apex Innovations. As compared to Transitions, Heart Failure - Focused includes only essential information and is less time intensive!

• About 5.7 million adults in the United States have heart failure.
• One in 9 deaths in 2009 included heart failure as contributing cause.
• Heart failure costs the nation an estimated $30.7 billion each year. This total includes the cost of health care services, medications to treat heart failure, and missed days of work.¹,²"

Designed for direct care nurses and other healthcare practitioners, Heart Failure – Focused delivers the required education that healthcare organizations need to meet annual accreditation and certification requirements.

According to the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses, as part of achieving certification and accreditation and implementing an effective, multidisciplinary heart failure program, healthcare organizations must implement educational programs for nurses and other clinicians to help them recognize early signs or symptoms of worsening heart failure, prevent complications, optimize heart failure therapies, evaluate effectiveness of the current plan of care, facilitate communication among multiple care providers, and provide patient education.

"The content in this course was intentionally written to provide this essential education and to help healthcare organizations achieve optimal outcomes for patients diagnosed with heart failure and to reduce readmissions," said Marianne Bourgeois, BSN, RN, President and Founder, Apex Innovations.

For more information, visit https://www.apexinnovations.com/products.html#hffocused

Sepsis Alliance, the leading nonprofit patient advocacy organization in North America dedicated to saving lives and reducing suffering by raising awareness of sepsis as a medical emergency, and Apex Innovations, the company that delivers high-quality, evidence-based continuing education programs for healthcare professionals, today announced that the Apex Sepsis: A Systemic ResponseTM online course will be offered through the Sepsis Alliance web site.

Sepsis: A Systemic Response is a 4-Level comprehensive web-based program that uses 3-D animations and amazing interactive graphics to deliver relevant sepsis education to nurses, physicians, and other healthcare professionals. The overarching goal of this program is to help healthcare organizations promote optimal patient outcomes by ensuring that their clinicians are sepsis-knowledgeable and sepsis-competent.

'Apex Innovations is proud to work with Sepsis Alliance to offer this exceptional continuing education program that aligns with their goal of saving lives and reducing suffering by raising awareness of sepsis as a medical emergency,' said Cindy Tryniszewski, MSN, RN, FAEN, Senior Vice President, Product Development.'

'This partnership allows us to further disseminate essential information to those who need it,' Tryniszewski said. 'In addition to healthcare professionals, Level I of the course is also appropriate for non-professionals and focuses on early recognition and response.'

According to Thomas Heymann, President and Executive Director of Sepsis Alliance, 'By offering Sepsis: A Systemic Response, we are meeting one of our organizational goals to train and educate health providers across the continuum of care on sepsis prevention and early recognition and treatment.'

Sepsis Alliance is the leading nonprofit patient advocacy organization in North America. Sepsis Alliance’s mission is to save lives and reduce suffering by raising awareness of sepsis as a medical emergency. The organization hosts national and community events, distributes educational information, and promoted training and education on sepsis prevention and early recognition and treatment. Sepsis Alliance also supports sepsis survivors and family members with information about sepsis and Post Sepsis Syndrome, as well as a Faces of Sepsis community forum. The sepsis.org website received more than 1.5 million visits each year. Sepsis Alliance, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is a GuideStar Gold Rated Charity. For more information, please visit www.sepsis.org.