Redesigning Your Approach to Patient Grievances to Improve Experience

UMass Memorial Medical Center transformed its grievance process to better respond to patient feedback by redesigning three key areas. Learn how building strong relationships with leadership, taking a proactive approach, and implementing “Standard Work” led to faster, more thorough responses, ultimately improving patient satisfaction and reducing response times.
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Policy & Measurement
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Background: Meningitis often results in ongoing and multifaceted after-effects, which can impact many aspects of people’s lives, yet relatively little support and follow-up is offered. This study explored post-treatment meningitis care experiences of UK adults aged 16 and over following a recent stay in hospital for meningitis. Methods: A survey was designed to ask about hospital
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Culture & Leadership | Policy & Measurement | Staff & Provider Engagement
Promoting Anti-Racism and Supporting Staff through Policy
Mount Sinai deepened its commitment to equity and began a journey towards anti-racism in 2020. As part of this effort a diverse group of colleagues responded to a call for action from the staff to create a policy that clearly defines how to manage patients acting in a racist/ discriminatory way while supporting staff as
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Policy & Measurement
Leveraging patient experience measures as surrogate outcomes to evaluate health care interventions
Patient experience quality measure scores are widely accepted as outcomes in health services research. For some patients and in some settings, such as hospice care, they can be the most important outcomes. While these measures are widely used, the potential to use them as surrogate outcomes in a clinical trial sense has gone under-recognized. The
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