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Whether you're a healthcare professional, a patient, family member, caregiver or simply curious about human connection within healthcare, you've come to the right place.
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Benefits of Membership
Membership makes you part of the professional home for patient experience leaders. Gain access to resources, connections and tools to support your individual growth and build your organizational capacity to drive experience improvement.
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New to The Beryl Institute
We invite you to take the first steps to engage with our community. You can make the most of your engagement by connecting with our members and exploring our resources.
Get StartedExperience Pathway
These foundational frameworks provide a path to guide and assess your experience journey. Each framework offers strategic concepts, suggests practical actions and links to applicable resources to support your work.
Let’s Get GoingWhat is PX/HX?
We define the patient experience (PX) as the sum of all interactions, shaped by an organization’s culture, that influence patient perceptions across the continuum of care.
Human experience (HX) is grounded in the experiences of patients & families, members of the healthcare workforce and the communities they serve.
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Return on Human Experience: Eight Principles to Inspire Excellence in Healthcare
This book is based on the unbiased research, proven practices, and lessons learned from our powerful global community striving to make healthcare better. Whether you’re an executive, clinician, or passionate champion for experience excellence, this book will help you think differently about how we lead healthcare forward.
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Consumer Perspectives on Patient Experience 2024
The Beryl Institute’s latest inquiry on consumer perspectives in healthcare is published in a report revealing
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The Value Case for Improving Human Experience in Healthcare
This white paper explores the concept of experience-driven value in healthcare and the corresponding value of
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A Commitment to Human Experience in Essential Hospitals
A Commitment to Human Experience in Essential Hospitals highlights the innovative practices of essential hospitals in
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Where Are My Things? Best Practices for Safeguarding Patient Belongings in Hospitals
Managing patient belongings is a persistent and complex challenge faced by nearly all hospitals and healthcare
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Caring for the Workforce: Five Strategic Areas to Address Well-Being in Healthcare
The Beryl Institute’s white paper, “Caring for the Workforce: Five Strategic Areas to Address Well-being in
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The State of Human Experience 2023: Affirming the Integrated Nature of Experience in Healthcare Today
Engaging voices from 33 countries, our latest biennial benchmarking study provides diverse perspective on how organizations
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Upcoming Events
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Fundamentals of Patient Experience: A Development Pathway for Experience Professionals (Arabic/English) – July/August 2025
Upcoming Event - July 5, 2025
PXE Credit Available
This interactive program, resulting in a Certificate in Fundamentals of Patient Experience, engages participants in the concepts central to excelling as a patient experience leader. This course is designed for those looking to advance in the experience profession and wanting to engage in conversations beyond the foundational concepts of patient experience. The program is framed
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Leveraging Metrics to Demonstrate Volunteer Impact
Upcoming Event - July 10, 2025
PXE Credit Available
2pm ET / 1pm CT / 12pm MT / 11am PT – Metrics are essential for volunteer leaders to demonstrate program value, though selecting and using the right data can be challenging. This session will equip leaders with the knowledge to collect and use metrics that showcase the impact of volunteer programs. Attendees will learn
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What Does Excellent Look Like?
Upcoming Event - July 15, 2025
PXE Credit Available
2pm ET / 1pm CT / 12pm MT / 11am PT – In this webinar, we will explore how the importance of connection and communication directly impacts the human experience in healthcare. Through the lens of “What Does Excellent Look Like?”, we’ll share a practical staff activity that uses a communication framework to identify and
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WMTY.world Monthly Meeting (July 16, 2025)
Upcoming Event - July 16, 2025
2pm UTC / 10am ET / 9am CT / 8am MT / 7am PT – WMTY.world monthly meetings are a space for exchanging experiences, connecting with others, and exploring the art of asking, listening, and doing what really matters to people. Join the conversation to share stories, celebrate successes, and learn from challenges as we
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Improving Interpreter Services Documentation for Equitable LEP Care
Upcoming Event - July 22, 2025
12pm ET / 11am CT / 10am MT / 9am PT – Patients with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) face significant barriers to accessing quality healthcare, leading to disparities in outcomes. Utilizing qualified medical interpreters is essential for bridging these gaps, yet systematic integration of interpreter services remains a challenge for many healthcare organizations. This webinar
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Connecting Compassion for Patients with Health Care Worker Wellbeing
Upcoming Event - July 29, 2025
PXE Credit Available
2pm ET / 1pm CT / 12pm MT / 11am PT – As a CPXP and recent cancer survivor, I encourage my fellow CPXPs to embrace patient suffering and take on the responsibility of fostering true compassion to reduce it. This presentation will explore: understanding who patients are, what they need, and how compassion can
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PX Chat on PFA/PFACS: New/Getting Started (August 6, 2025)
Upcoming Event - August 6, 2025
12pm ET / 11am CT / 10am MT / 9am PT – Join The Beryl Institute community for an opportunity to connect with your peers on the support and resources needed to address efforts around new and getting started with PFAs and PFACs in their organizations. Breakout discussion groups allow you to share your challenges,
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