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By listening to the "voice" of patients, Northwell Health, New York's largest healthcare organization, took an evidence-based approach to empowering physicians and advanced care providers. The Relationship Centered Communication course utilizes experiential learning to strengthen patient-centered communication and empathy skills to elicit provider-patient relationships grounded in partnership. This case study highlights (1) The pragmatic cultural journey requiring visionary leadership, strong collaborations, and an evolving educational strategy. (2) Over the course of 6 years, 3300+ providers were educated in this evidence-based communication course. (3) As a result, Northwell's Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems "Communication with Doctors" domain has increased by 22 percentile rank points, when compared nationally to peers, in addition to other notable patient experience metric improvements within ambulatory medical practice.
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Promoting respite and sleep impacts a patient's health and their inpatient experience. As New York State's largest health system, Northwell Health has been on a journey to create a healing and therapeutic healthcare environment. By establishing leadership accountability, leveraging patient feedback and adopting evidence-based interventions, system and individual adult inpatient hospital improvements have been noted. Between 2017 and 2020, Northwell's overall system HCAHPS "Quiet at Night" Top Box performance increased by 4.7, improving 30 percentile rank points when compared to the Press Ganey national database. This case study outlines Northwell's pragmatic patient-centered strategy and examines the unanticipated impact of limited visitation due to COVID-19 on this HCAHPS measure.
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The patient experience leadership structure at Northwell Health is strategically championed by Culture Leaders, a novel role established to transform the organizational culture from "service excellence" to "patient experience." This case report describes how the implementation of Culture Leader structure has aided in the improvement of organizational patient experience performance as well as how Culture Leaders remain highly engaged. Responsible for effectuating change by bridging the gap between local and organizational experience strategies, Culture Leader engages key stakeholders within the strategic pillars of culture, care delivery, hospitality, and accountability.
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At the epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis, New York's largest health system, Northwell Health, leveraged leadership and innovation to ensure the health and well-being of patients, families, and employees. During this unprecedented time, the role of patient experience leader constantly morphed and transformed to meet the ever-changing needs of the community and organization. This dedicated group of leaders, supported by the Northwell Corporate Office of Patient & Customer Experience, focused primarily on remotely connecting patients and families, harnessing the power of positivity as a crisis strategy and supporting the emotional health of the frontline staff.
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Leadership drives quality, experience, and engagement. It is the responsibility of the organization to equip its leaders with ongoing education and professional development. This case article explores the development, implementation, and impact of an immersive patient experience leadership education course across a large, integrated health system. Placing senior leaders on the "other side of the hospital bed," they were able to emotionally connect and personalize to the human side of health care. Post-course surveys validated that experiential role play was a positive and insightful method to teach and bring heightened awareness to patient and family member experience.
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Pessoal de Saúde/psicologia , Humanismo , Cuidados de Enfermagem/psicologia , Equipe de Assistência ao Paciente/ética , Equipe de Assistência ao Paciente/normas , Guias de Prática Clínica como Assunto , Resiliência Psicológica , Adulto , Atitude do Pessoal de Saúde , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-IdadeRESUMO
Empowerment of registered nurses through professional practice models inclusive of shared governance has been proposed as essential to improve quality patient care, contain costs, and retain nursing staff. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between perceptions of governance and empowerment among nurses working in acute care hospital units in which a shared governance model had been in place for 6 to 12 months. The 158 nurses who participated perceived themselves to be moderately empowered and in an early implementation stage of shared governance. There was a statistically significant positive relationship between perceptions of shared governance and empowerment. Recommendations for professional practice and future research are included.