Posted by Kristin Baird Expanding Metrics Nearly every day I have the pleasure of talking with healthcare leaders about their patient experience improvement efforts. I see a huge amount of effort going into implementing best practices, but when it comes to measuring ...
Anyone who is a truly passionate patient experience advocate must challenge the status quo about anything and everything that doesn’t serve the patient. If you don’t speak up, you are part of the problem. Over the past several months I’ve undergone ...
Written By: Kristin Baird, RN, BSN, MHA Baird Group has been working with healthcare organizations on customer service improvement since 1991 – over the years, as we’ve worked with healthcare organizations and healthcare leaders around the country, we’ve become pretty adept ...
Written By: Angela Fieler, MPA, CMQ/OE, Consultant As a consultant, I spend a lot of time “in the field.” Every time I’m with a client, I learn something new. I try to share these lessons in any way I can. I had a recent ...
Posted by Kristin Baird When it comes to creating a consistently positive patient experience there are three key words every leader and team member must adhere to. They are persistence, insistence and consistence. https://youtu.be/u2cqLg6GnLM It is not unusual for us to enter into ...
Posted by Kristin Baird One of the things I love about mystery shopping is that we can point out the stars who make the most positive impressions and who are living the organization’s brand promise. People think mystery shopping focuses on problems. ...
Posted by Kristin Baird https://youtu.be/BRx3w4Ov9X4 Service recovery is an essential in improving the patient experience. When people think of service recovery, it’s common to immediately recall the most difficult situations. For example, the caller who yelled profanities about his bill, the family ...
Posted by Kristin Baird Grief is a lonely process. As a healthcare provider, I’ve seen grief throughout my career. I’ve been on the side of tragedy and loss where I was the one helping others walk through a crisis and bereavement. ...
Posted by Kristin Baird It’s human nature to run from danger. When you are trained as a paramedic, firefighter, police officer you are taught to run toward the danger. They know that their role is to identify the problem and take ...
Posted by Kristin Baird An aspiring athlete can read dozens of books and watch hundreds of videos on great basketball techniques, but chances are good that will have minimal effect. Unless they, 1) play an actual game with others, and 2) get ...
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