Physician-led patient experience improvement efforts: The CONNECT program, an emerging innovation

Abstract

In 2009, the leadership of the Children’s University Medical Group (CUMG) embarked on an effort to answer the question, “What would it take to promote and foster a culture of service amongst the medical staff?” The challenge was to engage the physician group in leading patient and family experience improvements within Seattle Children’s. In this article, an innovative, physician-designed and led approach to improving the patient experience is described. The effort focuses on encouraging local, grass roots strategies rooted in readily available and validated best practices. In support of that effort, novel tools that were developed and deployed to elicit input, engagement and self-assessment are also described.

Keywords

• physicians
• patient experience
• physician-led
• connect
• self-assessment
• children’s university medical group
• cumg
• seattle children’s
• engagement