In the Moment Coaching and Recognition
Published July 6, 2016
Deborah Romer, Vice President, and Michelle Munn, Senior Director, National Service Quality, Kaiser Permanente, shares six steps that organizations can use when providing in the moment coaching among staff that provide feedback and support to healthcare teams.
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Change Leadership: Five Tactics to Make Best Practices Stick
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Complimentary – Change in healthcare is inevitable – and often challenging. Yet it’s essential for sustaining the patient experience behaviors and practices that matter most to patients and for bringing meaning and joy to the work of healthcare professionals. Change feels even harder when patient experience best practices fall short because real world circumstances and
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Changing Myths into Truths: Dispelling Physician Misconceptions on Patient Experience
Published November 12, 2025
Patient experience work can be viewed by some physicians as outside their scope of practice and therefore the responsibility of non-medical providers. Assumptions may also be made by providers about what patient experience work is and is not. These myths can make it difficult to pursue meaningful patient experience related work that is in fact
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