Patient Satisfaction Study

Hospitals and insurance providers alike as well as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are aiming to measure the value of health care (Morris, Jahangir, & Sethi, 2013). Improving patient satisfaction not only enhances the care a patient receives overall but it can have a major impact on a hospital’s reputation and financial results as well (Hall, 2008).

More and more as healthcare facilities are linking reimbursement back to patient satisfaction, there is increased accountability to deliver an exceptional patient experience. Really, who does customer service better than Disney? Let’s tap into how applying some of Disney’s basic principles can actually boost your patient satisfaction.

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems is a series of patient surveys required by The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for all hospitals rating health care experiences in the United States. “The intent of the HCAHPS is to provide a standardized 32-item survey instrument and data collection methodology for measuring patients perspectives on hospital care.” (HCAHPS Hospital Survey) Until the HCAHPS, there were no common metrics and no national standards for collecting and reporting information about patient experience of care. Since 2008, HCAHPS has allowed valid comparisons made across hospitals locally, regionally and nationally.

I am going to play devils advocate a bit here in regard to health care centers using patient satisfaction survey measures to improve the quality of care they provide to patients. Of course nurse and patient satisfaction surveys play an important role in keeping health care providers accountable for the patient care they deliver and ensuring nursing staffing levels are adequate to guarantee patient safety in medical settings. However, having worked in the health care arena for fifteen years, there are times that patient satisfaction survey metrics can be detrimental to health care providers’ careers and the quality of patient care delivered. For instance, Robbins (2015) explains sometimes health care providers will go out of their way to give patients what

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The health needs of the campus community is the Student Health Center’s utmost priority. This is demonstrated by the monthly meetings called Continuous Quality Improvement, facilitated by the medical personnel in order to discuss Patient Satisfaction. The process includes surveying students on the Health Center, allowing them to provide both suggestions and commentary regarding the services and their experiences, respectively. Towards the end of each month, the data is collected and presented to the employees who are responsible for relaying the abbreviated content of the meetings to the Administration department of the Health Center. Subsequently, necessary actions are implemented to improve the services and, if necessary, provide incentives

The Patient Satisfaction Selection Committee is extending an invitation to you. We would like for you to be a team member of the patient satisfaction sub-committee for NGMC. You will help with the custom questions for your departments outside of what CMS requires and how best to do the surveys, email, mail, of phone call. Not sure if texting is an option

As a result of the newly insured healthcare is feeling the strain of an increased demand for services. Today, with the new provisions afforded the consumer as a result of the ACA it has changed the focus and requirements of healthcare administration. No longer a volume based reimbursement system, healthcare organizations are requiring their administrators to meet the expectations of their clientele. When patient satisfaction

Between June 5th and July 31st of 2015, a physician satisfaction survey was conducted on Development Centers’ consumers. A total of 150 surveys were completed. Each survey was collected confidentially after a doctor appointment, which may have included a medication review, therapy session or other type of treatment. The survey was then collected by a member of the support staff and mailed to the Quality team for entry and analysis. Much of the commentary was very positive. Some of the comments included were, “I see a big difference in my son since he’s been seeing [the doctor].” “[The doctor] is always very concerned about [my] needs when I ask a question.” “[The doctor] is always kind, friendly, and professional at all times.”

A way to accomplish this is with the us of patient satisfaction surveys which are an important tool that can be utilized by healthcare organizations and physician practices like to understand their patients perceptions on the services and functions that they provide. They can improve communication between patients and providers so that they can improve operations and increase quality of care.

Patient satisfaction with nursing care and compliance with treatment is a topic that is heavily researched. The problem of decreased patient satisfaction is of great significance due impart to the fact that the level of patient satisfaction coincides with the level of compliance on medical advice, prescriptions, and directions given to patients (Johansson, Oleﰀni, & Fridlund, 2002). Patient satisfaction and compliance is a substantial problem in nursing because there is a large correlation with what patients’ perceive of nursing care and their perception on the quality of care received. Research has indicated that in order to increase patients’ participation in medical care, the patient must be satisfied with nursing care.

These approaches attempted to build a comprehensive framework to investigate interrelations of variables that have impact on patients’ evaluations by encompassing all influences on satisfaction (Crow et al., 2002a). The overall satisfaction is a collective feeling which is made up of positive or negative emotional responses of different factors of hospital services. These factors of services are usually adopted from the extant literature. Perhaps, the factors of services differ across the studies; however,

In “The Problem with Satisfied Patients” Alexandra Robbins highlights that a satisfying experience at a hospital, does not necessarily mean there was high-quality patient care delivered. She tackles the fact that hospitals use the HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) survey to provide a better experience for patients. The survey addresses nursing so they go to the extents of creating a set of phrases, rehearsing, and acting out the experience. Robbins contends that with patient satisfaction doctors/care providers overlook the care patients actually need and just attend to their wants. Overlooking the actually need eventually leads to complications, deaths in hospitals that have high ranking satisfaction

Patient satisfaction is essential to keeping a hospital or medical facility going. Patients want to feel involved in their care and feel that nurses care about them. A survey was used in one of the articles of this paper, 5 questions were asked to patient’s participating in the study including satisfaction regarding pre and post implementation of bedside reporting. Implementation of bedside reporting produced increased patient satisfaction in all 5 areas surveyed (Tidwell, Edwards, Snider, Lindsey, Reed, Scroggins, Zarski, & Brigance, 2011)

As the Ontario Health Care System faces several challenges, it becomes necessary for organizations and providers to join together and meet the health care needs of the citizens. As the ministry of health and long term care have encountered several different concerns over the past decade. With rising issues such as low quality service and patient dissatisfaction, transparency in the health care system becomes questionable.