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Figure 3. Patient Loyalty Driver Matrix for Acute Care Hospitals

How to Use Patient Experience Ratings to Prioritize Your Hospital’s Improvement Initiatives

Patient experience (PX) has become an important topic for US hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be using patient feedback about their care as part of their reimbursement plan for acute care hospitals (see Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program). Not surprisingly, hospitals are focusing on improving the patient experience to ensure they receive the maximum of their […]

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Map of US Hospitals and their Patient Experience Ratings

Hospitals are focusing on improving the patient experience.  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be using patient feedback about their care as part of their reimbursement plan for Acute Care Hospitals. Under the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program (beginning in FY 2013 for discharges occuring on or after October 1, 2012), CMS will make value-based incentive payments to […]

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Patient Experience Differences Between Acute Care and Critical Access Hospitals

Hospitals are focusing on improving the patient experience as well as clinical outcomes measures.  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be using patient feedback about their care as part of their reimbursement plan for Acute Care Hospitals. Under the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program (beginning in FY 2013 for discharges occuring on or after October […]

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Patient Experience by Response Rates

The Relationship Between Survey Response Rates and Survey Ratings

When soliciting feedback from customers through formal surveys, we only receive a percentage of completed or returned surveys. This percentage (number of people who answered the survey divided by the number of people in the sample) is referred to as the response or completion rate. In practice, I have seen response rates as low as […]

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Improve the Patient Experience to Increase Patient Loyalty

Last week, I wrote about the data that the Federal government is giving away for free. Their intent is to encourage entrepreneurs and developers to build new and innovative products and services.  I highly recommend you check out the data.gov site for data in such areas as energy and education and safety. After doing several searches on the data.gov site, I […]

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