The Critical Integration of Patient Experience and Employee Experience
Published December 13, 2021
Brett Brende, Vice President of Customer Engagement for Healthcare at SMG, shares how having employees that are engaged, excited and happy in their work roles has a direct impact on overall patient experience.
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Navigating the Journey: Mapping the Highs and Lows of Experience
Published January 9, 2026

At St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, patient journey mapping helps teams see care through the eyes of patients and families, revealing gaps, reducing anxiety, and turning insight into meaningful improvement.
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Change Leadership: Five Tactics to Make Best Practices Stick
Published June 11, 2026

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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