What Families Can Teach Us about Patient Experience
Published July 9, 2016
D’Anna Holmes, Program Manager, Patient Engagement, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, shares her patient experience journey as a mom and provides three things she’s learned from her experiences to apply every day as a patient experience professional.
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