Relationships

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It Pays to be Hospitable: in Healthcare and in Life

Creating a culture of service excellence that goes beyond ‘good customer service’ is all about being hospitable. Having spent my entire professional life in two service industries; the airlines and healthcare, using ‘hospitable’ to describe a customer-centered, service-oriented culture is Read More

10 Steps to Maximizing Patient Loyalty and Effecting Positive Change within a Physician Group Practice

How to Effectively Use Real-time Patient Feedback to Effect Positive Change within a Physician Group Practice Since 1995 I have had the privilege of working with physician practices to help improve the patient experience. Between 1995 and now many things Read More

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How to De-Escalate Encounters with Frustrated, Angry, Emotionally Charged Patients

Emotionally-Charged Patients Many healthcare facilities are making the shift from fee-for-service care to value-based care, optimizing the utilization of a team of medical professionals to care for patients, and inevitably increasing the potential for interpersonal conflict. Last week we discussed Read More

Research Shows You Can Improve Patient Satisfaction With Just One Endeavor

Improving Patient Satisfaction Through Employee Engagement If Mama Ain’t Happy Here in Tennessee, we have a saying: “If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.” Let’s turn a blind eye towards the horrendous grammar, and focus on the point of the Read More