May 7th, 2014
We focus a lot on culture as we work with healthcare organizations around the country and, while we know that it “takes a village” to deliver high-quality healthcare, we also know that there is one critical role particularly in hospital ...
February 11th, 2014
Talk to any direct caregiver in healthcare and chances are you’ll hear a bit about overwhelm caused by the myriad of tasks or tactics they’re asked to complete on a regular basis.
Whiteboards, scripting, hourly rounding, and bedside reporting are widely ...
January 8th, 2014
When it comes to the patient experience most healthcare organizations want to jump to tactics. They may give someone one tactic or a series of tactics to work on, but they stop there. Then they wonder why they don’t have ...
December 19th, 2013
How many patients (or other customers) do you see in a day? Ten? Twenty? More?
On the other hand, how many medical encounters do patients have? If they’re a typical patient probably no more than three—in a year! And during each ...
October 25th, 2013
The difference between mediocre organizations and top performers are not the goals they set, but rather the accountability for achieving goals. As we work with organizations to help them improve the patient experience, we find that lack of accountability is ...
April 10th, 2013
For healthcare organizations, it is all about the patient experience. Unfortunately, managing that experience can, as we all know, be extremely challenging. There are so many situations that can make an impact—positive or negative—on our patients, their family members, and other visitors. ...
January 24th, 2013
It’s the start of a new year, and that gets all of us thinking about goals—or, as we call them in the New Year, resolutions. For healthcare leaders, it’s a great time to be thinking about 2013 resolutions for improving ...
November 18th, 2012
“It’s not fair!”
“It’s not my fault!”
Many parents are all too familiar with these kinds of comments. Unfortunately, so are many managers! As we work with healthcare organizations around the country and conduct culture assessments, one common issue we encounter is ...
October 24th, 2012
There’s a lot of talk in management circles, including in the healthcare industry, holding employees accountable for certain service behaviors to ensure that they happen consistently—that they simply become so engrained that employees exhibit these behaviors or perform these tasks ...
May 24th, 2012
Shaping the patient experience is a big part of what we do at Baird Group, and our recent partnership with BerylHealth puts us even more firmly into this space as we work together to provide sustainable solutions for hospitals and ...