Patient Experience

Hartford (Conn.) Hospital. Hartford Hospital has the largest breast cancer specialist group in Connecticut, comprising a multidisciplinary team of experts who consult with experienced cancer specialists at Hartford Hospital’s Helen & Harry Gray Cancer Center Tumor Board on particularly difficult cases.…

Adventist Health Hanford (Calif.). Adventist Health Hanford’s breast care center provides a wealth of services to care for a woman’s mind and body. Breast cancer specialists including surgeons, radiologists and social workers staff the center, which offers full-field digital mammography…

Gunnison (Utah) Valley Hospital. Gunnison Valley Hospital has been dedicated to promoting women’s health services since the first facility opened in the 1940s, complete with an operating room, laboratory, X-ray room and delivery suite. At the time, a hospital stay…

Good Samaritan Medical Center (Brockton, Mass.). Good Samaritan Medical Center places an emphasis on patient experience for expectant mothers giving birth at the hospital. The medical center allows patients to develop a family preference plan to customize labor, pain control…

Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center (West Islip, N.Y.). Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center is a 537-bed nonprofit member hospital of Catholic Health Services of Long Island. It has 850 physicians, 1,300 nurses and more than 2,000 support staff. The hospital’s Birth Place counted…

Geisinger Medical Center (Danville, Pa.). Geisinger Medical Center provides a comprehensive approach to women’s health. The medical center is staffed by highly specialized providers, from board-certified OB-GYNs to maternal-fetal specialists to urogynecologists to nurse midwives, and Geisinger prides itself on…

Froedtert Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee). Froedtert Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin is a 585-bed academic medical center, one of just two in the state of Wisconsin. The hospital is dedicated to research, conducting approximately…

Detroit-based Children's Hospital of Michigan began restricting visitors Dec. 26 to protect pediatric patients from the flu, according to a CBS Detroit report.

There are significant measurement issues with the data collected to assess the patient experience in emergency departments, according to a study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.

The use of social media, specifically Facebook groups, in clinical practice can help healthcare providers incorporate an effective patient support community, according to a pilot study published in Surgery.