• Building loyalty into the patient experience

    Healthcare organizations are experiencing lower levels of trust by patients, partly as a result of misaligned communications during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many healthcare leaders see the critical, timely need to regain that trust.
  • Streamlining banking solutions to benefit patients

    Community health providers play a crucial role in our society, providing quality healthcare that is inclusive and accessible to the communities they serve. To best meet their mission, they need a seamless business infrastructure that allows them to focus on the needs of their patients. That support system becomes even more crucial during stressed periods such as the pandemic and economic downturn.
  • Patients don't see silos: Northwell nurse leader on shaping experiences

    With few exceptions, having to go to the hospital is not at the top of any individual's to-do list. However, long after the pain is gone and sutures have healed, patients remember how they were treated.
  • Hospitals embrace RV living for patients, staff

    Some U.S. hospitals are embracing the idea of RV living for patients, families and staff members, providing on-site parking spaces and hookups for the vehicles, CBS News reported July 26.
  • How data exploration and systemwide insights lead to better patient care

    The Ottawa Hospital and the Canadian Personalized Healthcare Innovation Network (CPHIN) are working together to build a health system that leverages data to empower collaboration and learning in support of delivering high-quality care at lower costs, while promoting the health of all Canadians. 
  • “This Has to Happen” - Children's Hospital Colorado is bringing precision medicine closer to patients.

    Use of comprehensive patient data in healthcare brings with it opportunities to transform clinical care. Nowhere is the potential greater than in precision medicine— which is using genomics to make medicine more precise and changing how care is delivered.
  • Clinical Pathways in Oncology: How City of Hope Delivers Optimal Cancer Care Coast-to-Coast

    Linda Bosserman, M.D., joined City of Hope in Los Angeles nine years ago as a medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer and value-based care.
  • 'Healthcare is not investment banking': At Cleveland Clinic, patient experience is everyone's job

    All members of the Cleveland Clinic team are referred to as "caregivers," because every employee should be focused on patients regardless of their position. In fact, part of every person's job is to help deliver the highest quality care and provide the best patient experience, Stephanie Bayer, senior director of patient experience at Cleveland Clinic, told Becker's.
  • How Cleveland Clinic's pours its HEART into patient experience

    Recently named to the No. 2 position on Newsweek's "2023 Best Hospitals" list, Cleveland Clinic leaders know full well that their efforts to constantly improve patient experience are always under a microscope.
  • 40% of patients say healthcare wait times are 'unreasonable': Survey

    While timely access to care is important when it comes to outcomes and patient satisfaction, findings from an April national survey released July 11 by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners show 40 percent of 1,029 respondents said they have experienced "longer than reasonable" wait times in hospitals and other healthcare facilities. This percentage increased over 2022 survey findings.
  • Northwell food goes from 'disgusting' to delicious, patient satisfaction rises from 9th to 90th percentile

    Hospital food has been the butt of jokes forever — at a significant cost to healthcare systems. Long after patients are discharged, they remember their poor experiences three meals a day, often just in time for the Press Ganey survey to arrive in their mailbox.
  • The Benefits of Leveraging Online Chat in Healthcare to Deliver Advanced Patient Access

    Although widely used in many other industries, online chat is just beginning to take off in healthcare. In fact, as healthcare leaders increasingly prioritize patient access, chat’s success in other businesses has spurred the rapid onboarding of chat solutions to help address healthcare-specific engagement and accessibility challenges.
  • How Cleveland Clinic triages patient complaints in real time

    All hospitals are focused on improving patient experience, a priority that has been proven to not only affect HCAHPS scores, Press Ganey survey ratings and CMS reimbursement policies, but also leads to improved quality and outcomes.
  • Why Health System Success Relies on Preventing Violence Against Nurses

    As a recently retired system chief nursing and quality officer, I am deeply passionate about championing nursing professionals as the backbone of healthcare delivery. Unfortunately, there is a pervasive threat that directly jeopardizes nurses’ ability to provide the highest quality care possible: workplace violence. With 44% of RNs reporting physical assault and 68% reporting verbal abuse according to the AHA, this mounting crisis must be addressed quickly and completely for the sake of caregiver wellbeing and organizational success at large.
  • Patient experience is finally recovering. Is your organization ready?

    At the close of 2021, I wrote that we were in a patient experience crisis. With the pandemic grinding on and omicron surges hitting most of us, the outlook was grim. My colleagues and I had never seen patient experience metrics drop so rapidly, and this development was a critical concern for the operations leadership and boards of many health systems. At the end of 2022, I wrote that, although some improvement had been seen, national indicators were still trending flat to negative. 
  • Ozempic could lower patients' 'food noise'

    Novo Nordisk's popular Type 2 diabetes drug Ozempic has noted numerous odd results, from faces deflating to bizarre dreams, and its patients are seeing another strange side effect: less "food noise."
  • How Cleveland Clinic innovates experience — with help from former patients  

    With an eye on constant innovation — especially when it comes to patient experience and satisfaction — Cleveland Clinic is growing its Healthcare Partners program by continuing to invite former patients and members of their families to advise on new hospital initiatives.
  • 7 Ways Healthcare Organizations Can Deliver More with Intelligent Scheduling

    Long-term obstacles negatively impacting performance loom large for most healthcare groups and providers. Organizations in the marketplace consistently struggle with how to address one or more of the following:
  • Veterans hospitals top private care in patient satisfaction, Medicare survey says

    When it comes to HCAHPS survey scores, the Veterans Health Administration beat out its private healthcare counterparts across the country in all 10 patient satisfaction categories, according to a nationwide Medicare survey released June 14. The report is based on discharge data collected between July 2021 and June 2022.
  • When patients feel gaslighted, it's time to find another physician, says Northwell Health leader 

    Almost by definition, the concept of medical gaslighting might be easy for some clinicians to brush off, but physicians have joined the conversation — #medicalgaslighting — on TikTok to raise awareness that dismissing a patient's healthcare concerns is not only short-sighted, but it's bad medicine.

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