Engaged and Empowered Staff Fuel the Ambulatory Surgery Center Patient Experience

In 2016, when CMS announced new ways to measure patient experience, our goal was to get out in front of the new requirements by taking a close look at each aspect of our patients’ experience and assess our readiness to meet those requirements with people, processes and tools. Our context for change was written in the measures from the OAS-CAHPS survey: quality of communication and care by both providers and office staff, and preparations for surgery, discharge and recovery.