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Event

Connection Call: Aligning Volunteer Services and Patient Experience for Maximum Impact

Upcoming Event - September 24, 2025

12pm ET / 11am CT / 10am MT / 9am PT – We all know that the work that volunteers do in our organizations directly impacts patient experience, but that connection isn’t always clear to your patient experience department. So how do you create and amplify that partnership? Join us as we learn from our

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Crafting a Patient Experience Program While Commissioning a Hospital

Upcoming Event - September 4, 2025
PXE Credit Available

Global Headliner Webinar Series (Complimentary) – Whether you’re building from the ground up or refreshing your current approach, join this webinar for practical guidance for making patient experience an integral part of your organizational culture. • 12:00 PM AST (Arabia Standard Time) • 5:00 AM EDT (Eastern Daylight Time – New York) • 09:00 UTC

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Developing Multidisciplinary Committees for Patient Experience Effectiveness

Upcoming Event - June 26, 2025
PXE Credit Available

2pm ET / 1pm CT / 12pm MT / 11am PT – This webinar explores how to move beyond recognizing the value of patient experience to embedding patient- and family-centered care into organizational culture. Learn how Patient Experience Committees, including a successful Cleanliness Committee, have driven improvements in HCAHPS scores, engagement, and collaboration. Discover strategies

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Webinar

Aligning Experience to Drive Scalable, Sustainable Change

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PXE Credit Available

In today’s complex healthcare landscape, turning insights into meaningful action is critical. This webinar explores how experience alignment tools like journey maps, service blueprints, and prioritization frameworks can uncover hidden risks, align diverse stakeholders, and spark lasting transformation. Attendees will learn how these tools connect clinical, operational, and digital touchpoints, creating a clear, shared understanding

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Webinar

Starting a Pediatric Parent Advisory Council: Overcoming Adversity

Creating a Pediatric Parent Advisory Council (PPAC) can be a transformative way to enhance family-centered care. Join us as we share our journey from the early stages of conceptualizing a PPAC, through navigating the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, to launching a council that has grown and thrived since August 2021. With 16 active parents

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Webinar

Experience Management Everywhere

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PXE Credit Available

The healthcare industry continues to evolve. Patient expectations evolve along with it. Patient Experience (PX) teams must evolve as well to address current challenges and proactively position themselves for continued impact. To remain relevant and impactful, next-generation experience teams must democratize experience management, ensuring the appropriate ownership at every organizational level. Attend this session to

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Webinar

Return on Human Experience: Eight Principles to Inspire Excellence in Healthcare

PXE Credit Available

Join Jason Wolf and Stacy Palmer, authors of Return on Human Experience: Eight Principles to Inspire Excellence in Healthcare, for a conversation on transforming the human experience in healthcare. At its core, healthcare is human beings caring for human beings—yet the complexities of quality, safety, service, cost, and outcomes often pull organizations in different directions.

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Webinar

But We’ve Always Done It That Way: Using SWOT to Enhance Your Volunteer Program

PXE Credit Available

It’s easy to fall into a routine in Volunteer Services. But what if you could get free help to elevate your program and team? Learn how to conduct an effective SWOT analysis and gain valuable insight to help keep you at the top of your game. Alex Seblatnigg, CAVS, CPXP | Director of Volunteer Services

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Blog

Experience Framework Lens: Infrastructure and Governance

Experience Framework Lens: Infrastructure and Governance Effective experience efforts require both the right structures and processes by which to operate and communicate and the formal guidance in place to ensure sustained strategic focus. The Why: Patients should be involved in healthcare governance because their lived experiences and perspectives help create a more patient-centered system. P/F

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Webinar

Health Equity: The Metronome for Human Centered Care

PXE Credit Available

As the healthcare landscape continues to evolve, and as consumers seek a more personalized care experience, integrating health equity into experience management emerges as a critical factor in enhancing institutional performance. Traditionally, health equity has been viewed as a separate component of healthcare quality improvement. However, in this webinar, we will explore the pivotal role

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Webinar

ED Processes & Improvements: Implementation Best Practices & Outcomes

PXE Credit Available

In this webinar, an Associate Chief Experience Officer, a Program Director, an Analyst, and a consultant will present what they did to improve patient experience outcomes across seven hospitals’ emergency departments which resulted in improved HCAHPS scores in all seven hospitals. The strategic, systemwide process improvements are based on analyses provided through Epic tools and

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Connection Calls

Patient Advocacy Community Connection Call: Effective Practices for Complaint and Grievance Recording and Reporting

In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, patient relations play a crucial role in ensuring a positive patient experience. Effective complaint and grievance recording and reporting are fundamental components of this process, directly impacting patient satisfaction, trust, and overall care quality. Join the Patient Advocacy Community for an insightful discussion of effective practices for managing patient

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Webinar

Is There a Doctor in the House? The Benefits of Partnering a Physician with Patient Advocacy

PXE Credit Available

Wondering how to take your Patient Advocacy team to the next level? This webinar will walk through the advantages of having a physician champion working closely with your advocacy team. We will cover physician engagement, clinical oversight, quality review, and key concepts that make for a successful physician partnership. Presenters will share their journey of

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Webinar

Ownership at the Frontline: Innovating an Experience Champions Program

PXE Credit Available

Many patient experience teams are small, and it’s hard to do it all. Having an “Experience Champs” program allows us to have multiple hands with one voice influencing all locations. Experience Champs are made up of frontline staff members who are chosen by their leaders as passionate role models. During the last five years, the

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Connection Calls

Patient Advocacy Community Connection Call: Disruptive Behavior Response Plan

Disruptive behavior undermines the relationships, communication, and teamwork needed to provide high-quality patient care. To promote a culture of safety, health care organizations must address the problem of behaviors that threaten the performance of the health care team. Join the Patient Advocacy Community for an opportunity to discuss disruptive behavior response plans.  Connection Calls are

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White Paper

A Commitment to Human Experience in Essential Hospitals

A Commitment to Human Experience in Essential Hospitals highlights the innovative practices of essential hospitals in enhancing the human experience in healthcare. These safety-net hospitals are crucial for providing care to underserved and marginalized communities, addressing complex medical needs and significant socio-economic challenges. Despite facing financial constraints and staff shortages, essential hospitals excel in creating

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Webinar

Phoneside Manners: Strategies for Effective Communication

PXE Credit Available

As the first point of contact that a patient has with your office, what transpires after the phone’s first ring can set the tone for the entire patient experience and impact patient satisfaction. Phoneside manners occur before a patient even walks through your front doors and can determine the outcome, mindset, and overall satisfaction of

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Webinar

A Global Perspective on Experience Excellence: Examples from Around the World

PXE Credit Available

Join Vita Steina to learn more about her Fellow in Human Experience (FHX) project to explore and gather a collection of leading practices driving experience excellence globally. Vita’s project provided a comprehensive look at how organizations around the world are working to advance their experience work in a variety of critical ways. This collection of

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Webinar

How Daily Huddles Launch Conversation to Drive Metric Improvement

PXE Credit Available

Since 2015 Cone Health Medical Group has been intentional about creating a culture of service excellence. Watch this webinar to discover how we partnered with Ritz Carlton Leadership Center to implement some of their key components ensure we have communication traveling from our sites up to our leaders and from our leaders down to our

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Webinar

Leader Rounding: A Proactive Approach to Improve Experience

PXE Credit Available

The goal of leader rounding with patients is to understand their health care experience from their perspective by having personal conversations with them. Rounding with patients is an intentional and systematic process where leaders regularly check in with patients to build relationships, decrease anxiety, increase trust, verify consistency of care, and gain real time feedback.

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Webinar

Pitching Your Experience Strategy to the C-Suite

PXE Credit Available

You may be new in your role as a Patient/Human Experience leader or you have worked hard to become in the field. Now, you want to share your insights and knowledge, starting with convincing the C-suite about the importance of Human Experience and how valuable an focus on experience would be in your organization. Maybe

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Webinar

Using Unsolicited Patient Complaints to Improve Patient Outcomes and Organizational Culture

PXE Credit Available

To meet regulatory and accreditation requirements hospitals and health systems have policies and processes in place to respond to patient complaints and grievances. Watch this webinar to learn how Marshfield Clinic Health System implemented processes to maximize complaint capture, provide service recovery, and produce meaningful outcomes for their patients and the organization. The partnership with

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PXJ Article

Part of the team: Effecting change and sharing power in healthcare settings

In 2019, we, as a group of patients and researchers, were invited to rethink how the executive board received and responded to patient stories at a specific NHS hospital trust in the UK. Through an iterative series of meetings, we were able to co-identify common concerns and together develop a distinctive narrative framework for effecting

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PXJ Article

Storytelling at board meetings: A case study of co-developing recommendations

In healthcare, stories shared by patients often provide details and insights into experiences of illness and care. Stories are a way to educate healthcare providers and others to improve care and systems to become more patient and family centred and to better meet patients’ needs and priorities. Telling stories may bring benefits to both storytellers

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Webinar

The Human Experience Imperative: Practical insights for executives on organizational strategy, structure and impact

Jason A. Wolf, Ph.D., CPXP, President & CEO, The Beryl Institute Brian Carlson, Vice President, Patient Experience, Vanderbilt Health Jennifer Carron Passon, MSOM, CPXP, Patient Experience Officer, BJC Health System Julie Kennedy Oehlert, DNP, RN, Chief Experience and Brand Officer, ECU Health Leaders today in healthcare organizations have come to see a real impact in

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PXJ Article

Public satisfaction with COVID-19 vaccination program in Saudi Arabia

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Webinar

Service Recovery for All: The Out-Patient Setting

Those working in healthcare have been experiencing the challenges associated with incivility of patients and family members. The workforce needs tools to effectively and confidently have conversations with upset individuals.

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Webinar

Service Recovery for All: The In-Patient Setting

Those working in healthcare have been experiencing the challenges associated with incivility of patients and family members. The workforce needs tools to effectively and confidently have conversations with upset individuals.

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Webinar

From the Primary Care Frontline: How to Establish a Practical Patient Experience Program

Hear how Tandigm Health in Philadelphia strategized, set-up, rolled out and managed a provider and patient experience program in its earliest phases – moving from awareness building to metrics/compensation and accountability.

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Case Study

Briner Imaging uses Patient Advocacy Data to Improve the Diagnostic Experience

Achieving a Compassionate, Person-Centered Organization by Design

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Webinar

Exploring the Foundational Frameworks to Build a Strategy for Experience Excellence

Learn about tools and resources to assess your progress and support your journey to transform the human experience in healthcare.

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Blog

Going Off on a Tangent: Exploring the Possibility of Process Change

Most people are familiar with the quote by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, “Change is the only constant in life.” As wise and true as these words are, change still catches most of us by surprise. In some people, the fear of change can even be anxiety-provoking (a condition known as metathesiophobia). While most of us

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White Paper

The Role of Revenue Cycle in Elevating the Human Experience in Healthcare

This paper, published in collaboration with Healthcare Financial Management Association, explores how revenue cycle plays an integral role in a person’s experience well before and after a clinical engagement.

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Webinar

3 Keys to Increasing Appointments in 2021

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Hear recommended best practices and digital solutions to address all three of these areas to boost revenue while also improving patient engagement and outcomes.

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Webinar

The State of Patient Experience 2021: Reflecting on Realities as we Transform the Human Experience in Healthcare

Hear global insights and evidence on where the experience movement is headed, where it is challenged, how its focus is evolving and what new frontiers it is exploring.

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Webinar

Restore and Nurture Confidence

Explore the first and second aims in the Governance & Leadership segment of The New Existence: Create Transparency across the Healthcare, and Restore and Nurture Confidence.

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Webinar

Create Transparency across the Healthcare Ecosystem

In this session of the New Existence Webinar Series we will explore the first and second aims in the Governance & Leadership segment of The New Existence: Create Transparency across the Healthcare, and Restore and Nurture Confidence.

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Webinar

Volunteer Leadership During a Pandemic

Hear ideas for new or different volunteer positions that leaders can propose to their hospital administration.

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Webinar

Effective Ambulatory Quality Initiative Improves Patient Experience

Review strategies to successfully negotiate the challenges of implementing a generalizable training initiative across a diverse ambulatory arena.

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On the Road

Back on the Road, Virtually

On the Road with University of Chicago Medicine, Virtual – December 2020 by Stacy Palmer, CPXP and Terri Ipsen, CPXP We began our On the Road program over 10 years ago, just after establishing The Beryl Institute as a membership organization, as a means to highlight challenges and successes in driving experience excellence. The series

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PXJ Article

Patient experience in outpatient clinics: Does appointment time impact satisfaction?

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Podcast

Let’s collectively raise our voices to say, “We’ve had enough.”

“Racism is a problem with bad policy, not bad people.”

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Webinar

Well-Rounded: A Fresh Approach to Training Volunteers for Inpatient

Learn an innovative approach to training inpatient hospital volunteers in a consistent, effective manner.

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PXJ Article

A COVID-19 patient’s experience: Engagement in disease management, interactions with care teams and implications on health policies and managerial practices

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PXJ Article

A comprehensive call center supporting safe, efficient operations during a pandemic

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Webinar

Radiology Bundle: Collaborative Approach to Designing an Experience

Learn how patient experience aligns with process improvement to increase patient experience awareness in front line team members, provides meaningful data to team leaders and creates clarity and a baseline understanding of what matters most.

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White Paper

Caring for our Children: A Look at Patient Experience in a Pediatric Setting

This paper examines evidence of successful patient experience practices in pediatric settings and highlights key findings to help organizations achieve their experience goals.

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Webinar

Strategic Psychological Behaviors to Enhance Patient Experience

Learn how transform healthcare by infusing human-centered design and evidence-based methods into operations with strategic and consistent psychological behaviors to enhance patient and employee expectation, perception and experience.

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Webinar

Hidden Opportunities to Design a Better Experience

Observational-Based Patient Interviewing and the Skeptic’s Lens are two key tools used to uncover insights into the kinds of behavior that create a “wow” experience.

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PXJ Article

Volunteer contributions in the emergency department: A scoping review

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Webinar

A Team Approach to Improving Patient Throughput

Presenters will share an interdisciplinary team-based approach, how they gained essential buy in and support and secured the dedicated resources. All, which has resulted in achieving impressive outcomes in patient throughput and enhanced teamwork.

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Podcast

I was fine with my body. I just didn’t like that it was mine.

What must it be like to be a young teen struggling with a sense of being in the wrong body?

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Webinar

The State of Patient Experience 2019: Looking to the Future of Human Experience

Hear global insights and evidence on where the experience movement is headed, where it is challenged, how its focus is evolving and what new frontiers it is exploring.

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On the Road

Rebuilding Trust to Ensure Sustainability: One CAH’s Remarkable Transformation

On the Road with Phillips County Health Systems – August 2019 by Tiffany Christensen, CPXP When The Beryl Institute Team goes On the Road, some trips include more “road” than others. Getting to Phillipsburg, Kansas required 3 planes, a rental car and a long drive through miles of farm country. Getting the opportunity to learn

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White Paper

Innovating the Patient Experience: Trends Gaps and Opportunities

With discoveries and opportunities transferrable to many healthcare settings, the paper examines innovation through The Beryl Institute’s Experience Framework.

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Webinar

Pedal to the Metal: How to Improve Patient Experience in 60 Days

Learn how an 800+ bed academic health-system, reached the 90th percentile in patient satisfaction by deploying the 60 day rapid improvement initiative.

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PXJ Article

Barriers and enablers of patient and family centred care in an Australian acute care hospital: Perspectives of health managers

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Learning Bite

Empowering Nurses in Changing Times

Antoinette Thomas, RN, MSN, Chief Nursing Officer, Oneview Healthcare, explains how times have changed for nurses and provides tips on how we can empower nurses through an investment in technology.

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On the Road

A Healthcare System Woven into the Community it Serves: Returning to the Place of My First Patient Experience

On the Road with St. Joseph’s Health – Wayne/Paterson, NJ – May 2019 by Jason A. Wolf, PhD, CPXP A Cornerstone of Compassion Our latest On the Road presented a profound opportunity for me. Not only is St. Joseph’s Health and its flagship St. Joseph’s University Medical Center housed in one of the most diverse

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Webinar

Department of Veteran Affairs Roadmap to Patient Experience

Explore the Department of Veteran Affairs’ journey of patient experience by using a self-assessment, Roadmap and guidebook.

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White Paper

Improving Patient and Family Experience in the NICU

This paper explores strategic goals supporting improvements and enhancements in patient experience in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs).

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Learning Bite

Mitigating Unconscious Bias to Improve Patient Experience

Unconscious bias is the mechanism of our brain that allows us to make shortcuts to quickly interpret and respond. For this very reason, awareness training is key and Barbara Warren with Mount Sinai Health System provides four tips to address unconscious bias.

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Case Study

@Hawkeye Heaven: How University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital Used Technology and Empathy to Improve Patient Experience

Creating a pediatric unit that truly addresses the needs of children with patient-facing technology.

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Case Study

Improved Patient Communication with Systematic Whiteboard Use

Research has shown the positive impact a well-designed and utilized whiteboard can have on the patient experience.

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Webinar

Empathic Approaches to Writing Meaningful Grievance Letters

Learn approaches to writing patient-centered letters in response to grievances received.

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Case Study

Springfield Healthy Homes Asthma Program (SHHAP)

The Springfield Healthy Homes Asthma Program (SHHAP) implements an intervention that offers both in-home asthma education and home remediation to local families struggling with the impacts of asthma.

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Grant Report

Using survey results to determine if first visit orientation to the ambulatory clinic will improve the patient experience

The question the study posed was “Will providing dedicated time for a patient/family to orient to the clinic during the first appointment impact patient experience survey results?”

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Case Study

Narrative Visualization – Building Stories from Survey Responses

Simlifying the data from patient experience surveys.

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PXJ Article

Integrating the patient and caregiver voice in the context of pediatric, adolescent, and young adult care: A family-centered approach

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PXJ Article

Wait time reality check: The convergence of process, perception, and expectation

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Case Study

Compassionate Caring Connections

Changing how staff and physicians communicate with patients and eachother.

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Webinar

52 Weeks of Overmanaging Creates Success

Hear how a 36 hospital health care system, and specifically two hospitals, maintained the focus on patient experience through weekly meetings with key departments.

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Webinar

Transforming the Riley Experience

Learn about the efforts of a pediatric hospital to involve families in quality improvement activities and sustain family engagement in LEAN transformation initiatives.

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Case Study

Patient Navigation in Pediatrics: A Promising Practice for Eliminating Healthcare Disparities

Seattle Children’s Hospital launched a pilot program to demonstrate the efficacy of patient navigation in the pediatric healthcare setting.

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Webinar

The Patient Experience: A Path to Better Outcome

Learn how to improve operational efficiencies within your practice, how to engage the patient for better outcomes, and it will discuss how the patient experience will impact your social media presence.

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PXJ Article

Barriers and facilitators to family participation in the care of their hospitalized loved ones

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PXJ Article

How to build a robust provider improvement partnership program to enhance patient experience – A case study

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Webinar

What Patient Experience Can Learn from Child Life Professionals

Explore key ideas on what patient experience can learn from child life, including the powerful stories of families impacted by these efforts and providing recommendations for action in how to apply these ideas in strengthening patient experience efforts overall.

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On the Road

A Relentless Pursuit of Patient Experience Excellence

On the Road with Hamilton Health Sciences – October 2017 by Jason A. Wolf, PhD, CPXP My latest On the Road took me to Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) in Hamilton, Ontario and a visit grounded in a rigorous and evidence-based approach to experience excellence. It is also the second month in a row that our

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Webinar

The Unexpected Experience – The Emergency Department

Janiece Gray, Founding Partner/CEO, DTA Associates, Inc. Richelle Jader, Director of Emergency Services, Regions Hospital Daisy Nelson, Charge Nurse/Staff Nurse, Regions Hospital This session will provide a deep dive into key principles for changing a culture within a Level 1 Trauma Center. A case study will be featured with the key principles that have helped

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Webinar

The State of Patient Experience 2017

Explore what was learned from the almost 1,700 respondents representing 26 countries across six continents and share the challenges and opportunities in addressing patient experience.

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PXJ Article

When one is sick and two need help: Caregivers’ perspectives on the negative consequences of caring

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PXJ Article

The evolution and integration of a patient-centric mapping tool (patient journey value mapping) in continuous quality improvement

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Webinar

Employee Engagement: A Central Driver in Your Patient Experience Efforts

Learn what organizations are doing to support all who work in healthcare deliver the best to their patients, families and each other.

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On the Road

Designing Spaces and Organizational Structures to Enhance the Patient Experience

On the Road with Sibley Memorial Hospital – April 2017 by Deanna Frings and Stacy Palmer Our latest On the Road took us to Sibley Memorial Hospital in the Palisades area of Washington, D.C. A member of John Hopkins Medicine, Sibley is a not-for-profit and full-service community hospital. They believe an enhanced patient experience includes

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PXJ Article

Patient Advisors: How to implement a process for involvement at all levels of governance in a healthcare organization

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PXJ Article

The evaluation of an information booklet in the use of effective patient communication in the setting of thoracic anesthesia

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White Paper

The Power of Person-Centeredness in Long-Term Care: A View Across the Continuum

In an effort to expand the overall discussion on experience, this paper explores the perspectives and practices of the patient, resident and family experience in long-term care.

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White Paper

The Power of Selection and the Use of Talent in Driving Exceptional PX

This paper explores effective strategies for measuring key talents that directly impact patient care and examines how healthcare facilities need to measure what matters most – their people.

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Grant Report

PFACs: Where’s the Money? The Financial Impact on Hospitals

Barbara Lewis, founder of Joan’s Family Bill of Rights, explores Patient and Family Advisory Councils and their financial impact on hospitals.

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White Paper

The Association between Patient Experience and Hospital Financial Performance

This paper explores the link between patient experience and organization performance through a study conducted by Anthony Stanowski, one of The Beryl Institute’s Patient Experience Scholars.

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Grant Report

Measuring, Assessing and Meeting the Needs of Primarily Spanish-Speaking Patients in the Hospital Setting

The purpose of this study was to assess the language needs of the Tallahassee Memorial patient population based on data gathered at the admission and registration portion of the patient stay.

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White Paper

Creating “PEAK” Patient Experiences

The paper offers guidance on creating a culture where employees view their work life as a calling versus a job and explains how that differentiation can make a significant difference in the experience provided to patients.

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White Paper

Return on Service: The Financial Impact of Patient Experience

This paper addresses the idea that improving the patient experience has true financial implications reaching well beyond reimbursement dollars.

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White Paper

The Role of Cultural Competence in Delivering Positive Patient Experiences

This PX paper visits the increasing importance of cultural competence and cultural sensitivity in the healthcare sector and how it impacts the experience of patients, their families and support groups.

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White Paper

The Four Cornerstones of an Exceptional Patient Experience

This paper highlights the results of two new surveys that illuminate the importance of the patient experience and describes the components of a successful service culture.

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On the Road

A Foundation of Values for Patient Experience Excellence

On the Road with Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil – June 2016 by Jason Wolf A Perspective on Motivations Our latest On the Road reinforced the fundamental global nature of patient experience. While various nations have seen systemic shifts in their healthcare organizations towards a focus on the patient and family (the consumer,

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On the Road

A Commitment to the Whole Person

On the Road with Duke University Hospital – May 2016 by Jason Wolf I recently had the chance to visit the team at Duke University Hospital for an exploration into both the challenges and opportunities they felt they were facing as they tackle the critical issue of patient experience (PX). What I found was an

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PXJ Article

Evaluating recall of key safety messages, and attitudes and perceptions of a patient safety initiative at a pediatric hospital

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Webinar

Patient Centered Care: A Cultural Transformation throughout the VHA

Learn about the VHA’s overall patient centered care efforts, including patient experience and clinical practice elements based on their innovation engine and the VHA’s Guidebook to Patient Centered Care.

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Webinar

Sustaining Your Patient Experience Efforts in the Ambulatory Care Setting

Hear how Allina sustained their efforts and 3 years later, continued to improve in spite of organizational change.

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Webinar

Getting It Right from the Start: What I Wish I Knew when I Started this Journey

Hear how an organization incorporating proven practices and behaviors sustained success in improving HCAHPS scores and will assist the newer patient experience professional in being successful from the very beginning of their journey.

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PXJ Article

A vision for using online portals for surveillance of patient-centered communication in cancer care

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On the Road

Building a Legacy to Honor the Service and Sacrifices of U.S. Veterans

On the Road with Southeast Louisiana Veteran’s Healthcare System – November 2015 by Stacy Palmer Our latest On the Road took me to the spirited city of New Orleans where the Southeast Louisiana Veteran’s Health Care System has recovered from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina over 10 years ago with amazing determination and an unwavering

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Webinar

Bridging Continuum Waters – A Hospital System Case Study

This presentation overviews a hospital system consolidation and integration of acute, post-acute, long-term care, wellness, outpatient care and person-centered navigation teams as a central framework for achieving population health goals.

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On the Road

The Power of Connection: Celebrating Community

On the Road at our first 10 Roundtables – October 2015 by Jason Wolf, Deanna Frings and Stacy Palmer Every fall members and guests of The Beryl Institute gather at Regional Roundtable events to network and share best practices around patient experience improvement. Since the program began in 2011, ten of these events have occurred,

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ONE Experience: A System Approach to Keeping Patients First Always

Be introduced to the ONE Experience model and how it keeps Patients First, Always. Learn four key tactics that enhance the patient experience in care locations from inpatient to ambulatory and pediatrics to long term care.

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Called to Serve: From Hospitality to Hospital

See how a Northern Virginian health system of 5 hospitals and 30 outpatient clinics collaborated in a three-year transformation that resulted in higher HCAHPS scores, more engaged employees and better clinical and operational outcomes.

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PXJ Article

Creating and integrating a new patient experience leadership role: A consultative approach for partnering with executive and clinical leaders

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PXJ Article

Considering shared power and responsibility: Diabetic patients’ experience with the PCMH care model

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The State of Patient Resident and Family Experience

Uncover and track significant trends from the 2015 State of PX benchmarking study.

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Leaning in to Our Patient Experience Journey

Learn how STEGH has applied Lean to the development of its Patient Experience Strategy, Patient Experience Council, and recruitment of Patient Advisors. 

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On the Road

Connecting Quality, Safety and Patient Experience

On the Road with Cook Children’s Medical Center – March 2015 by Michelle Garrison and Stacy Palmer Our latest On the Road took us to Cook Children’s Medical Center, part of Cook Children’s Health Care System, a not-for-profit, integrated pediatric system based in Fort Worth, Texas. An institutional member of The Beryl Institute, Cook Children’s

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On the Road

Driving Experience Excellence Through Awareness, Engagement and Implementation

On the Road with University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences – February 2015 by Jason A. Wolf, Ph.D. A Strategy for Success and a Big First Step This month’s on-the-road visit reveals a comprehensive effort to address the patient and family experience and focus on the principles of patient- and family-centered care (PFCC) found at

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Webinar

Improving the Patient Experience for Limited English Proficient (LEP) Patients

The need for improved communication with limited English proficient (LEP) patients has risen steadily.

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On the Road

Each Person. Every Moment. Better Never Stops.

On the Road with Virginia Mason Health System – November 2014 by Michelle Garrison and Jason A. Wolf, Ph.D. A Powerful Strategic Focus Our latest On the Road took us to an unusually sunny Seattle to visit with Virginia Mason Health System and explore the comprehensive effort they have taken on to transform their organization

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On the Road

Designing Better Experiences with Patient and Family Involvement

On the Road with Boston Children’s Hospital – October 2014 by Deanna Frings and Stacy Palmer Our latest On the Road took us to Boston Children’s Hospital, a facility with incredible history and an important heritage that still lives today. While Boston Children’s is considered a destination for its clinical excellence and innovations, it is

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On the Road

The Power of Collaboration in Patient Experience Improvement

On the Road with Value Health Partners – August 2014 by Jason A. Wolf, Ph.D. My August On the Road provides a new perspective and a variation from our typical story of a single site visit. More so, it reinforces a critical point we have worked to support and encourage through our work at The

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Webinar

Patient Experience Puzzle: Creating Your Own Vision

Examine the elements that constitute the patient experience and how strategy and culture are critical to any improvement efforts.

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PXJ Article

The impact of the resident duty hour regulations on surgical patients’ perceptions of care

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PXJ Article

Transforming the patient experience: Bringing to life a patient- and family-centred interprofessional collaborative practice model of care at Kingston General Hospital

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PXJ Article

A daughter’s frustration with the dearth of patient- and family-centered care

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PXJ Article

How does patient experience fit into the overall healthcare picture?

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On the Road

Being Better Together: Creating High Reliability and Experience Excellence

On the Road with Cincinnati Children’s – March 2014 by Jason A. Wolf As I began my third visit to a children’s hospital in our On the Road series, I was reminded of how much the pediatric setting magnifies the intensity, emotion and miraculous nature of the healthcare experience. As I entered the main hallway

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Webinar

Complaint Management: A Rapid Team Response

Find answers to multidisciplinary problems in less time and with greater satisfaction to the patient and/or staff in order to clarify or enhance a plan of care.

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On the Road

Reinforcing “I am the Patient Experience”

On the Road with GRHealth – January 2014 by Jason A. Wolf I was honored to spend time recently with the team at Georgia Regents Health (GRHealth) in Augusta, GA. My visit was a combination of opportunity to listen and learn and a chance to speak and share as part of GRHealth’s Patient- and Family-

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Strategies to Ensure the Quality of Communication with Patients

Health First shares its strategies to improve patient experience by better managing communication with patients in pre-service areas such as scheduling, registration and financial counseling. 

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Patient Navigation: A Program to Enhance the Patient Experience and Impact the Bottom Line

Understand the history of patient navigation, including its origin and components.

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On the Road

An Integrated Approach to Patient Experience Performance

On the Road with Carolinas HealthCare System – July 2014 by Jason A. Wolf, Ph.D. Our latest On the Road took us from last month’s look at the power of intention at a visionary community hospital to one of the most comprehensive integrated patient experience efforts I have had the chance to encounter. My visit

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Webinar

Building a Solid Business Case through Patient Empathy

How do you build a business case for patient-centered redesign of an entire clinical service line across multiple locations?

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Research Report

The State of Patient Experience in American Hospital 2013

This report shares insights on patient experience including how healthcare professionals are structuring their experience efforts across the globe.

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Webinar

Kaizen for Improved Patient Satisfaction: The Experience of an Academic Cancer Center

Learn to establish and convey expectations to patients through improved communication practices.

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Multi-prong Intervention to Improve Patient Engagement at a Hospital

What does a patient experience looks and feels like when designed from the perspective of companies that are world class in customer experience?

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A Roadmap to Driving Exceptional Experiences in Care

Learn how Vidant Medical Center’s Office of Patient and Family Experience (OPFE) developed and implemented a comprehensive roadmap to guide their journey to exceptional experiences. 

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On the Road

A Committed Journey to Patient Experience Excellence: Environment, Process & Interactions

On the Road with Florida Hospital – November 2012 by Jason A. Wolf Arriving in Orlando is a magical experience in itself. It is hard to escape the joy you see on the children’s faces who know they are about to see something magical and the sense of wonder on the faces of those departing

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On the Road

The Importance of Culture and the Power of Intention in Impacting the Patient Experience

On the Road with Scripps Health – July 2012 by Jason A. Wolf Our July On the Road took me to the Scripps Health and the blue skies and ocean breezes of San Diego, CA. The visit included hospitals driving new care processes and those living through the strains of construction and growth, from emergency

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Webinar

Enhancing the Patient Experience through Spotlighting

Spotlighting gives caregivers new tools to show their compassion, honor patient dignity and foster an environment in which patients feel safe and nurtured.

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On the Road

Improving the Patient Experience through People

On the Road with Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital – March 2012 by Jason A. Wolf Our March On the Road took us to the campus of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and a story of patient experience grounded in the efforts of 4000 employees. It is a story of a systemic effort of active engagement

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Webinar

Getting Diagnostic with the Patient Experience

Explore the “hidden” aspects that significantly influence the patient experience with a focus on fundamental strategies used to improve HCAHPS performance.

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On the Road

A Global Look at Improving Patient Experience

On the Road with Inspiration NW, NHS North West Manchester, United Kingdom – September 2011 by Jason A. Wolf Our September On the Road took me to Manchester, United Kingdom for a visit with Inspiration NW. This team of patient experience leaders is building a focused effort on the service experience in the National Health

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On the Road

The Patient Experience Journey: From Warm Welcomes to Fond Farewells

On the Road with Inova Fair Oaks Hospital – August 2011 by Jason A. Wolf Our latest On the Road took us to Inova Fair Oaks Hospital (IFOH), just minutes from Washington, DC. With the cacophony and chaos inside the Capitol Beltway these days, the quiet and calm of IFOH played a stark contrast. After

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Webinar

Experience Mapping Builds Empathy AND Revenue

Learn how to design and execute an Experience Mapping project as well as see examples of how to apply experience mapping insights to operational improvements, marketing communications and coordination.

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Webinar

The Revenue Cycle: An Essential Component in Improving Patient Experience

This webinar considers the impact and outcomes resulting from the patient’s experience with a healthcare system’s revenue cycle. 

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Research Report

The State of Patient Experience in American Hospitals – 2011 Benchmarking Study

Research from the study, which included responses of almost 1,100 healthcare leaders from over 670 unique organizations, reveals that patient experience remains a top and increasing priority for American Hospitals.

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On the Road

A Change is Gonna Come… Creating the Foundation for Improving the Patient Experience

On the Road with Medical Center Arlington – May 2011 by Jason A. Wolf After an insightful visit to the health system in British Columbia, Canada and a hiatus for The Patient Experience Conference, we return with the story of a facility that represents a question posed and a situation faced by most healthcare organizations

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On the Road

Healing Humankind One Patient at a Time

On the Road with UCLA Health System – February 2011 by Jason A. Wolf From snow-bound delays in wintery Chicago, our February On the Road takes us to the hills of Los Angeles and UCLA Health System. The warm light of the cloudless California day seemed to set the stage for the shining example of

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On the Road

Service Excellence – Every Patient, Every Time

On the Road with UC Irvine Healthcare – January 2011 by Jason A. Wolf On a recent trip to California I had the welcome opportunity to visit with the team at University of California Irvine Healthcare. My hope was to be able to frame a clearly defined effort focused on improving patient experience and get

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On the Road

A System’s View on the Continuum of Care

On the Road with Baylor Health Care System, Dallas, TX – November 2010 by Jason A. Wolf, Executive Director, The Beryl Institute Framing the Journey The inaugural edition of On the Road with The Beryl Institute literally became just that – a two-day road tour. Our host for this month’s visit, the Baylor Health Care

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Webinar

Creative Volunteer Roles

Discuss how hospitals are being asked to do more with less as volunteer departments are often challenged to justify budgets and prove “worth.”

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Encore! Encore! Transforming Volunteer Orientation from Traditional to Buzzworthy

Adapt required learning material into more entertaining, more satisfying, and better retained lessons.

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Setting your Program up for Success: Strategic Planning Toolkit

Learn how to create annual strategic planning sessions, and to create a departmental dashboard of goals and metrics for the year,

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Strategic Planning: Mapping your Path to Service Excellence

Explore the importance of a strategic plan in strengthening their department, demonstrate the impact of using your hospital’s MVV as foundation for an effective strategic plan for the Volunteer Services Department.

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Streamlining Volunteer Onboarding Process – Getting Time On Your Side: Group Interviews

Evaluate your current volunteer onboarding process, explore ways to effectively and efficiently streamline onboarding new volunteers and identify two different approaches of onboarding with similar outcomes.

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Transforming for the Future Managing the Healthcare Evolution with Volunteers

Learn how to integrate the power of encouragement and the human connection as value added into the patient experience.

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Volunteer Management 101

Assess existing programs. Develop recruiting & retention strategies. Develop new positions. Develop strategies for engaging staff to effectively work with volunteers.

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Volunteer Management 102

Understand parameters for innovative positions. Create new positions that serve the changing needs of your hospital and today’s volunteer. Learn ways to measure value of a program. Identify steps that will bring Volunteer Services to the planning table.

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When Volunteer Services Meet the Auxiliary

Evaluate current conditions of volunteer service and auxiliary, recognize/identify the challenges that are prohibiting growth or development of Auxiliary or Volunteer Departments.

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