Dear Friends and Colleagues in Patient Experience, When I last wrote, I focused on the importance of enhancing the Patient Experience now more than ever with the impact of COVID on our healthcare delivery systems. What I did not mention at the time was that I have been working on the front line in a Long-Term [...]
Dear Colleagues and Friends, I hope this message finds you safe and well. As Patient Experience professionals, these last few months have been tremendously difficult. We have gone through extraordinary measures while navigating ever changing guidance to keep our patients, staff, ourselves and our families safe. To decrease the spread of COVID, we have found and [...]
As a former CEO and Registered Nurse, I understand the challenges in achieving the goals to create a patient-centric culture, improving the patient experience metrics of HCAHPS and meeting the requirements of Value-Based Purchasing. My innovative work in the early nineties about front-end redesign and my continuing passion for creating a patient-obsessed culture has led me [...]
Healthcare organizations have traditionally delivered care focused on the needs and convenience of the organization, not the patient. But a new paradigm, based on a more consumerist approach is sweeping healthcare as it has swept other industries. Where is your organization? Patients are Powerful A consumer that is no longer satisfied with the inefficiencies and paternalistic [...]
In this experience economy, many have touted the enormous value of capturing the hearts of customers. Here, at CX University, we fulfill the need for Customer Experience training and development, but In every industry, there should be effort underway to improve industry-to-consumer contact. The healthcare industry has an opportunity to create advocates of their customer-patients. [...]