June 10th, 2025
You asked for it, but are you ready?
Patient experience still ranks among healthcare executives' top concerns, and we're often brought in to help organizations dig deeper into what's behind their patient experience scores.
"We want to know how to improve," they ...
January 13th, 2025
Many hospitals and healthcare systems may be not-for-profit, but that doesn’t mean they don’t want a healthy bottom line. Healthcare organizations are laser-focused on return on investment (ROI) these days as they deal with increasing competition, increasing patient demands, and ...
October 22nd, 2024
Baird Group has been conducting healthcare mystery shopping—or secret shopping—research since 1994. We were a pioneer in this type of research in the healthcare industry and we’ve conducted 1000’s of projects over the past 30 years.
We know that secret shopping ...
August 6th, 2024
I was recently looking for a new doctor and went to a health system’s website to find one I might want to connect with. I found one, and reached out through the site’s online scheduling option to set up an ...
August 9th, 2018
Written By: Brian Schanen, MS, Marketing Coordinator
Review of: Small Business Success Podcast 051—Marcus Lemonis, Secret Data Miner
If there is one thing I get excited about as a marketer, it is data.
I still remember my marketing professor in college constantly saying, ...
May 14th, 2018
Written By: Kristin Baird, RN, BSN, MHA
Baird Group has been a trailblazer in the field of medical mystery shopping for more than 15 years now and we’ve learned a lot along the way. So have our healthcare clients.
Medical mystery shopping – ...
June 16th, 2015
Our medical mystery shopping work for hospitals and medical practices around the country has yielded some eye-opening insights, for both us and our clients. Foundationally, for any organization, it’s virtually impossible to understand the customer experience from the inside; they’re simply too ...
October 24th, 2014
The Things You May Not Know About Medical Mystery Shopping, Baird StyleA recent request for mystery shopping services pointed out poignantly how Baird is different. A healthcare organization, concerned about its ability to adequately screen for Ebola, asked whether we ...
August 21st, 2014
It’s no mystery that the patient experience drives the organization’s reputation. And yet, many hospitals and medical practices remain baffled about which experiences are driving their patient satisfaction scores. This quandary was the impetus for the Baird Group establishing our ...
December 20th, 2011
Healthcare professionals are, by and large, a very committed, patient-oriented bunch. This is especially true of healthcare leaders who have been committed to providing exceptional service and clinical care to patients since long before they were faced with HCAHPS! But, ...