In today's health care environment, having satisfied patients just isn't enough. You're now being judged by payers and compared to other providers and patient satisfaction is a big part of that evaluation. Improving Patient Satisfaction Now: How to Earn Patient and Payer Loyalty explains why understanding and meeting patient expectations is not only nice to know, it's necessary to know! It gives you action steps in all areas of the practice. Through anecdotes and real-life examples from practicing physicians, you'll learn how to develop higher patient satisfaction, more compliant patients, a more productive and committed staff, and practical techniques to increase patient satisfaction in this updated edition.

The book explores the patient's perception of care to identify the drivers and implications of patient satisfaction. ... . The second edition offers significant new material, including : Enhanced material on staff buy-in to patient satisfaction initiatives - A new chapter that provides fifty simple and innovative improvement ideas - Additional material on staff and physician satisfaction - A new chapter on managing diverse patients and staff - New insight on compliant management and scripting. [Ed.]

Ethical medical treatment is an important aspect of healthcare that is affected by multiple influencing factors in, both private and public, medical organizations. By understanding and adapting the components of the health system to these influencing factors, healthcare can have better outcomes for patients and practitioners. Healthcare Administration for Patient Safety and Engagement provides emerging research on the theoretical and practical aspects of healthcare management for optimal patient care and communication. While highlighting topics, such as clinical communication, ethical dilemmas, and preventive medicine, this book will teach readers about the tools and applications of ethical treatment and hospital behavior in both private and public medical organizations. This book is an important resource for managers and employees of health units, physicians, medical students, psychology and sociology professionals, and researchers seeking current research on healthcare organization and patient satisfaction.

"Perfecting Patient Journeys is a guide for leaders of healthcare organizations who want to implement lean thinking. Readers will learn how to identify and select a problem, define a project scope, and create a shared understanding of what's occurring in the value stream. Readers will also learn to develop a shared vision of an improved future, and how to work together to make that vision a reality"--Provided by publisher.

Measuring and Improving Patient Satisfaction provides a detailed "how-to" approach to establishing an effective patient satisfaction measurement program. The reader learns how to measure patient satisfaction and act upon the information obtained from patient satisfaction surveys. The book is based on the author's own experience in creating and implementing a patient satisfaction measurement program for the Med-Partners Friendly Hills Health Network in Southern California.

Using examples from his work with Disney and as a senior-level hospital executive, author Fred Lee challenges the assumptions that have defined customer service in healthcare. In this unique book, he focuses on the similarities between Disney and hospitals--both provide an "experience," not just a service. It shows how hospitals can emulate the strategies that earn Disney the trust and loyalty of their guests and employees. The book explains why standard service excellence initiatives in healthcare have not led to high patient satisfaction and loyalty, and it provides 9 1⁄2 principles that will help hospitals gain the competitive advantage that comes from being seen as "the best" by their own employees, consumers, and community.

Equity and Excellence : Liberating the NHS: Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health by Command of Her Majesty

In today's healthcare environment, satisfying patients is essential to good medical care and business success. But physicians' chances of moving the needle on patient satisfaction are much higher if they have the support of their healthcare organization's leadership team. The Best Patient Experience: Helping Physicians Improve Care, Satisfaction, and Scores explains how healthcare leaders can help physicians improve their interactions with patients and achieve higher patient satisfaction scores. Written in a conversational style, the book is filled with tips, tools, templates, and resources leaders can employ to support physicians in their relationships with patients. Recognizing that the process for building a better patient experience is not easy, the book intersperses practical advice with anecdotes from the author and other healthcare leaders to provide context for working through these challenges. The resulting transformation creates an environment of personal gratification and professional pride that galvanizes not just the physicians but the entire organization. Features of the book include: A case study of a physician group that improved its patient satisfaction scores from the 20th percentile to the 99th percentile A dozen reasons leaders should care about patient satisfaction A six-step process for getting physicians to engage on patient satisfaction Typical objections of skeptical physicians and how to respond to them Advice on helping doctors sustain behavior changes to ensure success Tips on using patient satisfaction data A DIY approach to shadow coaching physicians

Approximately 4 million U.S. service members took part in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Shortly after troops started returning from their deployments, some active-duty service members and veterans began experiencing mental health problems. Given the stressors associated with war, it is not surprising that some service members developed such mental health conditions as posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and substance use disorder. Subsequent epidemiologic studies conducted on military and veteran populations that served in the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq provided scientific evidence that those who fought were in fact being diagnosed with mental illnesses and experiencing mental healthâ€"related outcomesâ€"in particular, suicideâ€"at a higher rate than the general population. This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the quality, capacity, and access to mental health care services for veterans who served in the Armed Forces in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation New Dawn. It includes an analysis of not only the quality and capacity of mental health care services within the Department of Veterans Affairs, but also barriers faced by patients in utilizing those services.

Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.