The topics we explore in this issue look deeper into how consumers understand and engage in healthcare. Highlights underscore major opportunities in three areas: improving how people make healthcare decisions, prioritizing shared decision-making in healthcare organizations, and strengthening support for caregivers as vital members of the healthcare system.
Listen in as Gabriel Bolivar of Maui Memorial Medical Center shares how his passion for finding healthcare improvement strategies drove him to find solutions to better manage patient belongings. From policies to procedures, Bolivar emphasizes effective practices to manage this recurring and often elusive challenge.
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.
Stacy Palmer, Senior Vice President and COO of The Beryl Institute, joins Steven Peltzman, CEO of FeedbackNow, to explore how their innovative feedback devices are transforming the healthcare experience. Tune in as Peltzman discusses the profound impact of empowering patients with a sense of control in situations that often feel beyond their grasp.
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center faced a decline in patient experience scores, reaching the 50th percentile by 2022 due to inconsistent leader rounding and lack of focus on improvements. In 2024, the center revamped its rounding program by involving non-clinical and ancillary leaders, focusing on structure, support, and connections. This approach included protected time
Paediatric Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) are tools that capture what children and young people (CYP) value in their healthcare and promote their involvement in clinical decision-making. A standardised paediatric PREM could improve quality of care for CYP across hospital settings, but CYP are rarely included in the development of PREMs. This study aimed to
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has become important for African nations as they strive to provide equitable healthcare access to all citizens. Implementing a successful National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is crucial to achieving this goal. In pursuit of achieving UHC, Zambia launched the NHIS in 2019 with the ambitious goal of reaching 100% coverage by
This pilot qualitative study explores consumers’ and clinicians’ perspectives about the relevance and utility of patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) in an Australian inpatient rehabilitation unit. Methods: Two focus groups, were recruited via convenience sampling, comprising English speaking rehabilitation clinicians (n = 5) and consumers (n = 6) who had recent experience of inpatient musculoskeletal rehabilitation
By Nikki Garcia, CPXP, Patient Experience Officer FQHCs are instrumental in providing essential healthcare services to underserved communities. Their mission to offer accessible and high-quality care drives their daily operations and influences their approach to addressing the specific needs of their patient populations. By employing effective communication strategies, FQHCs ensure they remain responsive to the
The Patient Experience Policy Forum (PXPF) of The Beryl Institute has had a focus on impacting the US patient experience measurement structure since its founding in 2017. PXPF successes over the years have included interfacing with CMS leadership to advocate for updates and improvement of the CAHPS system, including the HCAHPS survey. Significant changes are
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
In recent years, the Global Experience Measure (GXM) effort at the Institute has brought together over 1,000 member voices from our global community. Driven by feedback from our Global Council and inspired by a PXJ article, Measuring what matters: A proposal for reframing how we evaluate and improve experience in healthcare, this effort has led
The Beryl Institute’s latest inquiry on consumer perspectives in healthcare is published in a report revealing the most comprehensive and broad collection of voices ever captured for this global study. As a follow-up to earlier studies from 2018 and 2021, the 2024 report confirms that what remains important to people around the world are the
By Rosie Bartel This is the sixth blog in a series of eight by The Beryl Institute’s Global Patient & Family Advisory Board (GPFAB). The intent of this series is to present our perspective on patients’ and families’ lived experience through each of the strategic lenses of The Beryl Institute’s Experience Framework. The Experience Framework
With grant funding from The Beryl Institute, Briargate Outpatient Specialty Care Clinic at Children’s Hospital Colorado launched a quality improvement project to tackle the decline in patient and family experience scores concerning post-visit communication. By implementing targeted interventions, the clinic increased the percentage of families who felt well-informed about handling questions after visits from 72%
This article is the journey of a dentist who adopted the additional role of a healthcare manager and embarked on a transformative journey to enhance the realm of pedodontics.
Research suggests that insights from patient narratives – stories about care experiences in patients’ own words – contain information that can be used to improve care. However, assessments of narratives reported by clinical personnel have been mixed.
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
The latest release of PX Pulse reveals consumer perception of quality and experience remain stagnant from last quarter, both with lower than desired rankings. Cost continues to be top of mind for consumers, with the cost of premiums jumping from the third slot to the first as the most important item to consumers. Findings about
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
Listen as Jason A. Wolf, PhD, CPXP, President & CEO, The Beryl Institute discusses the perspectives of human experience globally and how we can and must elevate and transform what matters to both those served by healthcare and those who show up to serve each day. Get an early peek at the latest global consumer
The COVID-19 pandemic put tremendous pressure on healthcare systems worldwide, which led to heightened scrutiny of the medical services offered by hospitals. This article aims to evaluate complaints about city hospitals in Türkiye during the COVID-19 pandemic using the Healthcare Complaints Analysis Tool, which includes three main domains and seven problem categories. The complaints submitted
Objective: Given the current emphasis on patient-centered care, emergency physicians are seeking ways to improve patients’ experience in the emergency department (ED). Length of stay (LOS) in the ED has previously been associated with patient experience ratings, however there is limited literature on this relationship at the clinician level. The objective of this study was
Leader rounding on patients has gained recognition as a best practice in healthcare and is linked to improved patient satisfaction outcomes. This study explores the leader rounding frequency and common elements of high-performing hospitals in achieving top-quartile Hospital Overall Ratings. The findings provide a strategic opportunity for organizations to enhance their overall ratings by optimizing
Transgender activist Emily Newberry joins Director of Community Experience, Amy Kwiatkowski to share her multi-decade journey of acceptance and understanding and how it led her to the field of patient experience and advocacy. Listen as Emily describes how her own experience navigating the health care system as a transgender woman inspired her to be persistent
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
By examining nurse manager accountability for patient experience measures, this study seeks a deeper understanding of nurse managers’ perceptions of patient experience measures and how these measures drive organizational communication behaviors. Funded through The Beryl Institute’s Grant Program for scholars, Lisa Huddleston, Ph.D., explores whether hospitals use patient experience scores as intended — to guide
In an effort to (re)build trust post-pandemic, many health systems are experiencing the pressure to modernize methods used to engage patients and the workforce who care for them. This trend towards an improvement-focused understanding is reflected in the greater conversations happening across our industry, including the evolved shift in understanding from “Patient” to “Consumer” and
The latest release of PX Pulse reveals the items of greatest importance to healthcare consumers remain consistent from the previous quarter, but perspectives on the quality of care and overall experience saw the lowest scores in the last two years. This issue also explores the critical issues of trust, provider relationships and providing feedback to
Caring for patients and their families during tumultuous times can be daunting. Many times, we rely on our past experiences, good or bad, to help us through difficult or ambiguous situations. While empathy is a key component of good service, how do we show cultural inclusivity? How can we make a big impact and improve
We know that our volunteers make a huge difference in our organizations every day…but how do you show that? It can be challenging to assign hard data to work done with the heart, but those statistics can help illustrate that impact in a more meaningful way to your audience.
Join our Ambulatory Care Community for a discussion on what and how organizations measure to best represent the voice of patients. Panelists will discuss why they selected the tools they use and how their organizations most effectively use metrics to impact the human experience.
Watch this webinar for an interactive discussion through a series of five mini-case studies to illustrate the power of narrative. The case studies will focus on: (1) using an innovative digital tool to collect patient-generated contextual information and embedding at-a-glance summaries of patient narratives in the EHR (2) mining open-ended comments in experience surveys, with
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
Patients are increasingly reporting about their healthcare experiences in an unsolicited manner online. This emerging resource may offer valuable opportunities for organisational learning. Our study aimed to compare how online patient feedback was responded to and used for improvement in three hospital Trusts. Ethnographic data were collected across three hospital Trusts in England, recruited according
Patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) are critical to evaluating the person-centeredness, safety, and quality of healthcare services internationally. The aim of this study was to describe the initial psychometric evaluation of a new Emergency Department (ED) PREM. Adult patients presenting to the ED of a tertiary hospital in southeast Queensland, Australia during January 2022 were recruited in-person.
During this webinar, Children’s Mercy Kansas City shares results from a year-long case study on the meaningful integration of patient comments and the precise analytics derived from those comments into the strategic improvement planning efforts of an emergency department. The presentation will highlight how this process can foster a culture of human-centered patient and family
We are pleased to share results from the 13th edition of our PX Pulse survey. Conducted in partnership with Ipsos, PX Pulse captures healthcare consumer perspectives of patient experience in the United States. The latest release of PX Pulse reveals affordability and access to hospitals and treatments continue as important issues to consumers. While the
Hospital administrators and researchers often use large, standardized surveys that examine patient satisfaction to evaluate whether interventions improve patient experience. To summarize the breadth of these interventions and how large, standardized surveys are used to evaluate them, a multidisciplinary research team conducted a review. They used PubMed and Google Scholar searches, reviews of reference lists
This qualitative descriptive study explores patients’ experiences of living with COVID-19, in the community, during the early stages of the pandemic. Between October 2020 and April 2021, fifteen semi-structured, video-recorded interviews were conducted, via Zoom, with participants in five Canadian provinces. Participants self-identified as having had a confirmed or suspected case of COVID-19. The constant
Jason A. Wolf, Ph.D., CPXP , President & CEO, The Beryl Institute Since 2011, The Beryl Institute’s State of Patient Experience Study has provided global insights and evidence on where the experience movement is moving. Its results have revealed challenges and inspired action globally. It too has reflected the very evolution of the field of experience itself.
This webinar serves as a companion piece to our most recent PX Paper, “The Evolving Role of Healthcare Volunteer Programs: Elevating the Human Experience through Generosity and Connection.” The paper was guided by the Experience Framework and shared the voices of volunteers and the professionals who lead them about how culture and leadership, reporting relationships
This paper explores the PBRI Innovation Fellowship, which provides an opportunity for health professionals to identify and lead an innovative quality improvement project to bridge an evidence-to-practice gap that will lead to improved health care practice and patient experiences.
The Beryl Institute and Ipsos released findings from the ninth PX Pulse, a quarterly tracking survey and first of its kind effort to elevate understanding and track current perspectives on patient experience in healthcare across the United States.
Amy London, Product Innovation Specialist, Virginia Mason Medical Center, shares how using experience-based design was an innovative framework to increase their understating of the experience during and following episodes of hospital acquired delirium. Read associated PXJ article
The Beryl Institute and Ipsos released findings from the ninth PX Pulse, a quarterly tracking survey and first of its kind effort to elevate understanding and track current perspectives on patient experience in healthcare across the United States.
Hear an overview of the research that went into developing a Patient Advocate staffing model for more than 550 Patient Advocates spanning a 154 VA Medical Centers.
After a concerning patient encounter on the phone, a call center rep followed proper safety protocols to alert her superiors.
Systems for information gathering are designed to capture the impact of our actions and interactions with patients but not the impact of our inaction – the steps not taken – which can significantly affect the quality of care and patient experience.
The Beryl Institute and Ipsos released findings from the ninth PX Pulse, a quarterly tracking survey and first of its kind effort to elevate understanding and track current perspectives on patient experience in healthcare across the United States.
The conversation on measuring experience has been a long and thoughtful one. It has reflected a dynamic tension between measures used as a lever for action in some health systems and as a mechanism to determine reimbursable dollars in others. Yet underlying all the conversation, the question of what we measure, to what end we
There is a growing impetus to “measure what matters” to enable health systems to optimise value-based, person-centred healthcare. This paper describes the critical importance of patient-reported outcome and experience measures (PROMs and PREMs) in this pursuit and provides an in-depth overview of how PROM and PREM programs differ between England, the United States, and Australia.
Understanding patient experience is essential to providing high quality, person-centered care. A real-time baseline cross-sectional study was completed to identify gaps in patient experience that can be targeted for quality improvement (QI). This study is part of PROSE (Person-centered Radiation Oncology Service Enhancement), a QI initiative developed to improve patient experience at a tertiary cancer
Surveying patient satisfaction is considered an important part of any systematic program of quality assurance. Quality of healthcare service and patient satisfaction has been affected by the current COVID-19 epidemic. The purpose of the study was to determine how COVID-19 epidemic has affected patients in Slovenia as it is evident via permanently available questionnaire and
Background: The collection of patient experience feedback (PEF) has seen a marked global increase in the past decade. Research about PEF has concentrated mainly on hospital settings albeit a recent interest in primary care. There has been minimal research about PEF in the prison healthcare setting. The aim of this study was to explore the
To optimise home care provision and to identify potential improvements in the care process, it is important to gain insight into the care experiences that influence care quality. The aim was to develop a qualitative experienced quality measure for home care in The Netherlands, facilitating conversations between clients and caregivers in generating possible points of
This review reports on the development of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), published within the past ten years, for people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS). Moreover, this review evaluates the extent to which patient participation was integrated in the development of the PROMs. A systematic review was conducted, and four relevant articles were extracted, from which nine
In this paper we identified what was reported in the literature on qualitative and quantitative approaches used to capture and improve patient experiences in a hospital setting. For inclusion, articles were required to describe an embedded strategy for capturing patient experiences that was used to inform quality improvement in a hospital setting. Articles also had
Pediatric PX Leaders discussed how their organizations set measurable and achievable patient experience goals. During this conversation, members from The Beryl Institute whose roles or responsibilities encompass the pediatric setting joined the call and learned: What key metric or question are other organizations using? Are others using raw data and/or percentile ranking? What organizations are
Learn more about cutting-edge technology and human-centered approaches to effectively drive organizational experience and innovation at an accelerated pace.
This connection call discusses measurement tools, how the recent update to OAS CAHPS may have changed survey collection strategies and ways organizations are distributing their survey data.
This report continues to track the impact of COVID-19, revealing consumer perspectives on such topics as comfort in returning to seek care, issues influencing their decision-making, visitation policies and experiences with healthcare incivility.
Learn how SCL Health designed, implemented, and optimized Practicing Excellence’s Ambulatory Patient Experience (APX) Program to significantly improve Care Provider scores for 70% of their clinicians.
Patient advocates often have their fingers on the pulse of the most important information about their healthcare organization’s patterns of “pain points” and other opportunities for change.
The impact of COVID-19 continues to be explored along with such topics as health system perceptions and trust, comfort in seeking care and consumers’ ratings for quality of care and experience.
Explore the third aim in the Policy & Systemic Issues segment of The New Existence: Modernize the Surveys and Democratize the Data.
Learn why Lehigh Valley clinical, dietary, and environmental services teams all got on board with the patient survey project, what lessons the teams learned along the way, and how patient surveys fit into the organization’s priorities.
To determine the effect of encounter methods on patient experience, we evaluated patient experience survey data comparing scores between telehealth and in-person visits and pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 time periods. Pediatric subspecialty visits were either in-person or via telehealth and received the same 16-question patient experience survey. Top box (5/5) scores were compared between in-person and
Previous research and applied work has shown that communication-based training has the potential to impact important outcomes for healthcare organizations. Our institution developed and deployed Service Excellence, a communications-focused training, in our large academic cancer-focused healthcare system. In this study, we investigated whether patient experience improved for those with care providers who completed Service Excellence,
Patient satisfaction surveys may not adequately reflect organizations that conduct research in patients who enroll in clinical trials. The purpose of this systematic literature review was to summarize the current state of knowledge of patient satisfaction while enrolled in clinical trials utilizing a widely used, validated patient satisfaction instrument. A comprehensive literature search was conducted
Measurement of patient-centered care is a key step to ensure quality of care improvement. The aims of this study were to evaluate the experience of hospitalized patients of Salah Azaiez Institute (SAI) of Cancer of Tunisia in 2020 and to analyze factors associated to the global satisfaction. It was a cross-sectional study. The used questionnaire
Like many healthcare organizations, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) is awash with data. Often, this data is used in siloed departments to monitor safety and quality, make local business decisions, and motivate staff to improve processes to achieve sustained excellence and market share. As margins get thinner and competition from various disrupters increases, organizations
Explore two aims in the Policy & Systemic Issues segment of The New Existence: Hardwire Human Partnership in the Healthcare Ecosystem and Research, Measure and Dismantle the Structures and Systems that Lead to Disparities.
The realities of health disparities and health equity are examined a year after these questions were first explored.
Still challenged by the pandemic, we explore the impact COVID has had on consumer decision-making and perspective.
Review the HCAHPS Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) program and trends over the past few years.
As healthcare continues to focus on dismantling systemic racism, the move from ideas to action must be intentional and strategic.
This paper explores how individual patients experience structural stigma using a phenomenological qualitative approach.
I was honored to have the opportunity to talk to someone I’ve been fortunate to meet in the past few months and who has taught me incredible things about the topic of equity in healthcare and even more so the idea of health justice, Dr. Julia Iyasere, Executive Director of the NewYork-Presbyterian Dalio Center for
Enhancing Patient and Family Experience (PFE) is vital to the delivery of quality healthcare services. Sociodemographic differences affect health outcomes and experiences, but research is limited on biases in PFE survey methodology. We sought to assess survey participation rates across sociodemographic characteristics. This retrospective study analyzed a health system’s ambulatory PFE survey data, collected January
This study examined a new method for measuring the care experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with cancer: the Indigenous People’s Experiences of Cancer Care Survey (IPECCS). The study assessed IPECCS’s: 1) performance; 2) ability to elicit information useful for service improvements; and 3) implementation potential. Three participant groups were recruited from five
Healthcare rights exist to protect older people from harm and to empower older people to participate in their care with independence, choice and control. Multiple investigations revealing abuse provide evidence that older people’s rights are being breached. Older people must have the opportunity to report on their experience of care against their rights. The Right
The COVID-19 pandemic has invigorated efforts to address health inequities disproportionately burdened by racial/ethnic groups and individuals of low socioeconomic status. Measuring and monitoring patient experience is crucial to understanding why the gaps exist and identifying mechanisms necessary to close them. Electronic health records and digital health tools hold much promise in this regard and
Supporting healthcare organization in their efforts to cope with the pandemic.
Join a leadership discussion around how federal agencies are using innovative technology to more effectively and urgently address current and systemic health challenges in the pandemic and beyond.
Adopt consumer-focused technology into healthcare to amplify the voice of the patient. Get real-time data to the right people to deliver real-time action. Combine technology, culture, and competencies to move from experience measurement to experience management.
This report reveals that consumer ratings for the quality of healthcare in America has dropped by ten-percentage points since Q4 2020, with less consumers who state that healthcare quality is “very good” or “good.”
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine had already warned that medical errors caused between 44,000 and 98,000 avoidable deaths per year in the United States. A similar situation was subsequently in 2000, documented in Canadian hospitals. According to a Canadian Patient Safety Institute report (2016), incidents in both acute and home care settings resulted in
Understanding how patients can be engaged in safety-related activities at the direct care level is of current relevance given global efforts to reduce harm in hospitals. As part of a multiphase study, including a descriptive, exploratory qualitative study (Duhn & Medves, 2018), patients were asked to respond to a brief questionnaire to quantify how they
The attrition of small volume surgical and maternity services in rural Canada over the past three decades has made access to these services especially challenging for rural citizens. While many of these closures have occurred as consequences of regionalization, a strategy to regionally centralize healthcare services, many studies investigating outcomes of regionalization have focused on costs
Many healthcare providers are developing patient experience strategies and investing in this area. Yet, patients have no means to know if a hospital is following proper patient experience standards. For this reason, it is important to certify that hospitals and clinics follow own a patient experience policy and apply patient experience standards. This is the
Learn three ways organizations can use patient-experience data to create an institutional culture that serves everyone.
Tara Dimopoulos-Bick, Agency for Clinical Innovation, New South Wales, Australia, shares that one way to enhance the field, and give experience-based co-design the best chance of success, is to pay attention to the capability needs of everyone involved, and build preparedness in the ways of being, knowing and doing.
This connection call discusses measurement tools, how the recent update to OAS CAHPS may have changed survey collection strategies and ways organizations are distributing their survey data.
Discover the findings of the Beryl Institute paper Exploring the Future of Experience Measurement, which shares the voices of patients and family members, experience leaders and measurement vendors as we look to what measurement can be.
The Beryl Institute and Ipsos released its findings from the fourth PX Pulse which suggests that engagement is rebounding, with a 12-percentage point increase in the number of Americans reporting a visit to their primary care provider compared to June 2020.
This paper is grounded in accounts from measurement providers, healthcare leaders and patients, families and care partners who emphasize how they currently engage in measurement practices and how they can improve in the future.
An important concern for health care professionals is that standardized patient surveys may not fully capture all the topics that are important to patients. As a result, health care professionals may not have a complete picture of what their patients experience. The purpose of this research is to utilize a state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing technique
Learn actionable insights gathered from leading brands in other industries that can be directly translated into healthcare, and dive deeper into the connection between employee experience and patient outcomes.
The objective of this paper is to identify potential differences in weight loss outcome and adherence to follow-up visit protocol between patients receiving employer-based commercial insurance, and those receiving Medicaid.
The Beryl Institute and Ipsos unveil the inaugural PX Pulse, a first of its kind effort to elevate understanding of and track the current perspectives on patient experience in healthcare across the United States.
Utilizing spatial data of U.S. nursing homes, nursing schools, and CMS’s Nursing Home Compare data, this research report yields important information regarding the implication of the nursing shortage.
Scaling quality care transitions.
Learn how to leverage training sessions, meeting cadences, and dashboards to support staff and leaders in understanding data and positively impacting patients’ experiences
Alice Kinsler, Manager, Therapeutic Arts and Holistic Service at Concord Hospital, explains how they are able to demonstrate that they can help reduce costs in symptom management, incidence of delirium, and burden on nurses with therapeutic arts and holistic services.
Trace the development and current work in PESA underscoring lessons learned, challenges encountered and plans for improvement.
Explore methods and lessons learned to date from a pilot project designed to assess the implementation and use of the new CAHPS Patient Narrative Elicitation Protocol in several New York-Presbyterian ambulatory care practices.
Improving patient experience by redefining service standards.
Published in collaboration with the Academy of Communication in Healthcare, this paper explores the state of interpersonal communication practices in relationship to the patient experience outcomes in U.S. healthcare organizations
Working with a patient experience consultant, we learned how to see the patient’s journeys through their eyes.
This paper explores how the commonalities of electronic patient experience measurement with first person narrative collection had a potentially high reliability of being a complementary process.
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
Saint Luke’s Hospital explores how empathy huddle interventions aimed at increasing staff empathy would enhance their capacity to understand the patient’s experience, to act proactively on behalf of the patient and to show compassion and patience during patient interactions.
Hear about Mayo Clinic’s Patient Experience Maturity Assessment tool (PXMA), a useful, simple tool for health care organizations to easily and objectively assess their service program and culture against Mayo Clinic’s Patient Experience program.
Compliance with CAHPS is a low bar to set for organizational achievement. Our research indicates that cultures dedicated to excellence achieve higher CAHPS performance,
Learn about organization’s journey in implementing transparency in patient experience reporting.
Conducted by the Lehigh Valley Physician Group (LVPG), a part of Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) the goal of this study was to determine if and how scripted communication can increase patient satisfaction in the medical practice setting during a major change event.
Jan Gnida, Director, Patient Experience & Government Surveys, Professional Research Consultants, discusses how HCAHPS may give healthcare organizations the framework for the patient experience conversation, but the reach goes beyond just those who have direct patient contact.
The paper shares perspectives of seven healthcare survey organizations, most often viewed as competitors in the market, but in this instance brought together by the Institute to support a better understanding of measurement practices for the broader healthcare community.
This paper takes a deeper dive to share specific actions discovered that help shape a systemic solution to improving overall patient experience.
his paper explores the often overlooked importance of effectively managing the revenue cycle, not from solely a financial management perspective, but from the true role effective revenue cycle processes can play in ensuring an unparalleled experience for patients.
Learn how this data driven consultation model helps providers, leaders and sites identify gaps in service delivery and develop improvement strategies.
Explore the 2011 Dining Practice Standards agreed upon by 12 clinical standard setting organizations and recognized by CMS.
Review the complexities of the Unites States health care system through a broad base of facts, concepts and analysis.
Understanding core concepts that are the foundation of statistics that will provide useful insight into analyzing data, prioritizing goals and recognizing progress in performance improvement efforts.
Learn how to develop measurement tools, aggregate reports, how to get volunteers to track who gets the information and more.
Learn how legislation/public policy impact your hospital and the health care system and why advocacy engagement helps your hospital.
Discover the steps necessary to conduct a volunteer satisfaction survey, interpret results for evaluation of volunteer surveys and benefit from the lessons learned (pitfalls & success) of surveying.
Hear stories and helpful discussions in this webinar about training volunteers about Patient Engagement and evaluating questions in the HCAHPS Survey that can be addressed and impacted by Volunteer Support.