by admin | Aug 1, 2017 | Patient Experience Pearls
Positive patient comments were sent to the medical staff. Comments with staff name were picked and sent out to the whole ED...
by admin | May 22, 2017 | Patient Experience Pearls
Title: Shhhh: The Hallway Patient Revisited Excerpt: Imagine being a patient in hallway bed T, right next to a bathroom. The nurse just left after conducting the initial medical interview. The physician/APC now rushes over, sits down 5 feet away. At some point...
by admin | Apr 2, 2017 | Healthcare Management
I was casually chatting with a ED clinical manager at a recent consulting gig and she kept complaining that the hospital management did not “care” about her or her employees. I asked her to explain what she meant by her comments. She explained that she had been with...
by admin | Mar 13, 2017 | Patient Experience Pearls
In the twenty second iteration of my bimonthly Patient Experience Improvement Pearls, I use a quote from Atul Gawande: Being Mortal, Medicine and what matters in the end to define: What our “job” is in medicine Excerpt: We’ve been wrong about what our job is in...
by admin | Mar 13, 2017 | Patient Experience Pearls
In the twenty fifth iteration of my bimonthly Patient Experience Improvement Pearls, I discussed : The importance of Shared Decision Making. Excerpt:...