Unleashing Collective Potential: The Power of Team-Based Leader Rounding in Elevating Patient Care
Published November 19, 2024
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center faced a decline in patient experience scores, reaching the 50th percentile by 2022 due to inconsistent leader rounding and lack of focus on improvements. In 2024, the center revamped its rounding program by involving non-clinical and ancillary leaders, focusing on structure, support, and connections. This approach included protected time for rounding, regular debriefs for real-time problem-solving, and fostering meaningful connections between team members and patients. As a result, the hospital’s HCAHPS scores improved, rising to the top 20%, and staff reported greater engagement with their roles and patients.
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Enhancing Post-Visit Communication: A Quality Improvement Initiative
Published August 18, 2024
With grant funding from The Beryl Institute, Briargate Outpatient Specialty Care Clinic at Children’s Hospital Colorado launched a quality improvement project to tackle the decline in patient and family experience scores concerning post-visit communication. By implementing targeted interventions, the clinic increased the percentage of families who felt well-informed about handling questions after visits from 72%
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Association Between Clinicians’ Average Patient Length of Stay and Patient Experience Scores
Published April 30, 2024
Objective: Given the current emphasis on patient-centered care, emergency physicians are seeking ways to improve patients’ experience in the emergency department (ED). Length of stay (LOS) in the ED has previously been associated with patient experience ratings, however there is limited literature on this relationship at the clinician level. The objective of this study was
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From Patient to Nurse Leader: How a Childhood Hospital Stay Shaped a Career
Published April 19, 2026
In this episode, Jason Wolf sits down with Jerry Mansfield, Vice President and System Chief Nursing Officer at University of Texas Medical Branch, who shares how a simple yet powerful bedside interaction during his childhood hospitalization shaped his path into nursing and leadership. Through that early experience and moment as a patient, he reflects on
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