Mindfulness Building Resilience and Improving Care in Modern Medicine
Posted: December 26, 2016 Filed under: Healthcare, meditation, Mindfulness | Tags: attention, attentiveness, awareness, Krasner, leadership, mindful, nursing, physicians, Ron Epstein Leave a commentReprise: Engaging Physicians to Lead the Patient Experience
Posted: March 8, 2014 Filed under: Customer Experience, Empathy, Healthcare, Leadership, Patient experience, Uncategorized | Tags: Always Events, Experience Innovation Network, HCAHPS, physicians, Summa Health System, Troy Bishop Leave a commentA commitment to patient experience is not new to Summa Health System. Starting in 2010, Summa has built a solid foundation of best practices, including post-discharge care calls, nurse leadership rounds, improved communication etc. The hospital system achieved improvement across all HCAHPS domains except one. Physician scores were not improving because the system’s multi-specialty physician group, Summa Physicians, Inc. (SPI), had not been strongly engaged in playing a leadership role in driving change throughout the organization.
“How do you motivate these physicians to instigate change?” That is the key question Dr. Bishop asked when tackling this problem. Summa’s success provides some key lessons:
- Identify a well-respected…
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