Engaged and Empowered Staff Fuel the Ambulatory Surgery Center Patient Experience
Published March 27, 2018
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.
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A Global Perspective on Experience Excellence: Examples from Around the World
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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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Using Measurement and Metrics to Drive Improvement in Ambulatory Care Environments
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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.
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