Optimizing Patient and Family Involvement to Support a Maturing Cancer Center
Published January 30, 2018
This case study focuses on a brief overview of Stanford’s Cancer Center South Bay and the Patient and Family Advisory Council (PFAC) development and strengthening through organizational alignment to enhance the patient experience.
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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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Leading in Turbulent Times: Why Experience is Essential to Healthcare’s Future
Published May 4, 2025
Healthcare systems around the world and throughout our community are being buffeted from all sides, with higher acuity patients, a vulnerable and stressed workforce, unsure finances and support structures, and even challenges to long-held medical truths. For as much as we traversed a once in a lifetime moment through the pandemic years, the residual effects
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No Time to be Timid: Making the Financial Case for PX professionals
Published September 21, 2025
J.R. Labbe, CEC Co-Founder, CCO, Executive Coach CSE Leadership, LLC Nicole Kirchhoffer DNP, MS, RN, CEN, CPXP, FPCC, NEA-BC Patient Experience Officer / Assistant Vice President Maimonides Medical Center Lara Burnside, MHA, CEC Co-Founder, CXO, Executive Coach CSE Leadership A July 2025 article by Kristin Kuchno, published by Becker’s Hospital Review, targets Chief Experience Officers as being
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