Fire Starter of the Month

United Hospital District in Blue Earth, MN is the Fire Starter of the Month for September.

The Age of HCAHPS

Read "The Age of HCAHPS: Four Reasons Why Those 27 Survey Questions Will Change Healthcare Forever." Everyone is looking for a silver bullet, and HCAHPS is the closest thing we have to one. Raise HCAHPS scores and many other problems will fix themselves. This includes readmissions and hospital-acquired infections, both of which are extremely costly to healthcare organizations.

Studer Group Partners Outperform Their Peers

In fact, based on the information posted on the Hospital Compare website, Studer Group partner hospitals outperform their peer organizations by an average of 20 percentile points across HCAHPS measures. Congratulations to our partners. We know through years of firsthand study that hospitals can move the patient experience. When hospitals set out to make the quality of care they provide the absolute best it can be—always—the scores will take care of themselves.

(Partner-Only Resource) How to Build HCAHPS into Eleven Tactics You are Already Doing

Learn how to add HCAHPS into Studer Group evidence-based tactics that will improve the Communication with Nurses Composite.

Coming soon

A Great First Impression: Insights on Creating a Profitable ED

Journal of Emergency Nursing Publishes Three Studer Group Best Practices for Excellence in the ED

The emergency department is the major point of entry for the largest number of patients arriving to your hospital. Typically, the ED accounts for 50 percent of inpatient admissions, 75 percent of plain radiographs, and 50 percent of CT scans and ultrasounds in the entire hospital.

And it's not just about numbers, it's about perceptions. The experience your patients have in the ED set the stage for how they perceive their entire hospital stay. As ED patient satisfaction rises, so does inpatient satisfaction.

The message is clear: to grow patient satisfaction, loyalty, and volumes hospitalwide, it's critical to make a positive first impression with patients in the ED. (Yes, we know it's challenging—but it really can be done!)

Three tools and tactics to help you create an excellent (and ROI-driven) emergency department are found in a three-article series written by Studer Group coach and ED expert Stephanie Baker and published in Journal of Emergency Nursing.

Read abstracts of these articles, published in the 2010 March, May, and July issues of JEN.

This October, Discover the Best Practices of More than 35 Powerhouse Achievers

At the 8th annual What's Right in Health Care^SM conference you’ll gain access to a wealth of best practices that improve clinical outcomes and patient perception of care—and learn how to incorporate them into your organization. This will help you create a framework for executing swiftly and effectively for long-term, sustainable results.

Click here to see a list of this year's sessions and their descriptions.

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