About the Course
The updated HCAHPS Survey presents a unique opportunity to not only create momentum and revitalize your patient experience initiatives but also provide valuable education and engagement of your leaders, staff, and physicians. HCAHPS is one of the most visible (and understandable) community performance metrics and drastically changed January 1, 2025. Equip your workforce to understand new accountabilities, serve as ambassadors, and deliver more consistent care experiences.
This course is best for:
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Leaders
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Physicians
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Staff
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Anyone looking to improve healthcare communication
By the end of this 15-part course, you will be able to:
- Identify strategies to engage your team in Patient Experience and HCAHPS performance
- Provide training and development on key competencies that will improve service and quality
- Build Experience Domain specific action plans to influence performance
- Engage learners in strategies to build and broaden excellent patient experiences
Lessons:
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Lesson 1
Creating HCAHPS Excellence
Understanding the interconnectedness of patient experience to quality, safety, engagement, and financial performance. Establishing team norms that create excellent patient experiences. (Video Duration 5mins:52s)
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Lesson 2
HCAHPS Fundamentals for the Updated Survey
Equip your teams to understand the important changes to the updated HCAHPS survey and processes beginning January 1, 2025. (Video Duration 12mins:42s)
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Lesson 3
The Patient Perspective
Expand empathy to view the experience through the lens of your patients and their loved ones. Understand how patients' perceptions are shaped and culturally humble strategies to provide person-centered care. (Video Duration 10mins: 41s)
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Lesson 4
Highly Reliable Patient Experiences
Take a deep dive into Healthcare Experience Foundations CARES™ Methodology for highly reliable communication that has been demonstrated to improve patient experience of care (HCAHPS), improve patient safety and quality, and decrease staff turnover. (Video Duration 8mins:8s)
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Lesson 5
Emergency Department Strategies
Approximately 7 out of 10 patients begin their evaluation of their experience beginning in the Emergency Department. Explore strategies to align your continuum of care for HCAHPS 2.0 success. (Video Duration 7mins:35s)
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Lesson 6
Nurse Communication
Explore techniques to elevate perceptions of communication, listening, and compassion between your nursing care teams, patients, and loved ones. (Video duration 6mins: 56s)
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Lesson 7
Doctor Communication
Focus on high impact opportunities to elevate patient perceptions of their experience with all medical staff beginning in the emergency department and their hospital stay. Learn how you can create strategies with physician champions leading the way in impacting patient. (Video Duration 10mins:17s)
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Lesson 8
Responsiveness of Hospital Staff
Gain tools and resources to adapt to new Responsiveness requirements of the Updated HCAHPS Survey. Dive into the questions patients use to rate on our responsiveness while staying in our hospital. Learn how patient perceptions may differ from our as providers and caregivers. (Video duration 4mins: 53s)
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Lesson 9
Cleanliness
Discover how leaders and staff can set patient expectations, narrate our work, and use patient rounding to gain real time feedback to make adjustments as needed to improve perceptions of cleanliness consistency. Grow in your knowledge of patient’s standard of expectations that guide their survey. (Video duration 6mins: 9s)
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Lesson 10
Medication Communication
Deep dive into the two items on the HCAHPS survey that affect your patients rating on how well they understand what we are saying when we give a new medication. This domain is critical to quality and patient experience outcomes. Learn ideas, strategies and techniques that will support your teams in excellent medication communication. (Video Duration 6mins:9s)
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Lesson 11
Discharge Communication
Discover the importance of clear and concise discharge communication, the risks of lack of adherence in discharge or transition instructions when leaving the hospital, and strategies to improve retention of information. Learn how to demonstrate the importance of medication communication, medical appointment follow-up, and all of the instructions given. (Video duration 7mins:1s)
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Lesson 12
Care Coordination: NEW DOMAIN
Communication consistency and collaboration are a new standard of accountability with the updated HCAHPS Survey. Every team member is mission critical to function as a team and project teamwork, upskill strategies to project care coordination. (Video Duration 10mins 25s)
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Lesson 13
Restfulness of Hospital Environment
Fostering a restful and quiet environment is an important new accountability measure for the updated HCAHPS Survey. Learn techniques to learn priorities, set and manage expectations, validate restfulness and elevate communication. Video Duration 6mins: 52s)
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Lesson 14
Information About Symptoms
Focus on bridging the transition from hospital to home in partnership with patients and care partners with techniques for communication, education and validation to ensure meaningful understanding of symptoms and care plan. (Video Duration 5mins:11s)
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Lesson 15
Leader Guide
Your leader support guide gives strategies to upskill your teams to elevate consistency and sustainability for your patient experience and HCAHPS improvement program. This lesson explores common pitfalls to avoid, measurement communication, universal leadership improvement techniques, and operating for impact. Support your leaders with a clear path to build momentum and sustain gains that maintain success in your organization.(Video Duration 17mins:6s)
Creating HCAHPS 2.0 Excellence
Purchase this course to gain access to 15 video lessons on HCAHPS 2.0. This one-time fee grants individual access to this course and supporting materials for 12 consecutive months from date of purchase.
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Creating HCAHPS 2.0 Excellence
Lessons:
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Lesson 1
Creating HCAHPS Excellence
Understanding the interconnectedness of patient experience to quality, safety, engagement, and financial performance. Establishing team norms that create excellent patient experiences. (Video Duration 5mins:52s)
-
Lesson 2
HCAHPS Fundamentals for the Updated Survey
Equip your teams to understand the important changes to the updated HCAHPS survey and processes beginning January 1, 2025. (Video Duration 12mins:42s)
-
Lesson 3
The Patient Perspective
Expand empathy to view the experience through the lens of your patients and their loved ones. Understand how patients' perceptions are shaped and culturally humble strategies to provide person-centered care. (Video Duration 10mins: 41s)
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Lesson 4
Highly Reliable Patient Experiences
Take a deep dive into Healthcare Experience Foundations CARES™ Methodology for highly reliable communication that has been demonstrated to improve patient experience of care (HCAHPS), improve patient safety and quality, and decrease staff turnover. (Video Duration 8mins:8s)
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Lesson 5
Emergency Department Strategies
Approximately 7 out of 10 patients begin their evaluation of their experience beginning in the Emergency Department. Explore strategies to align your continuum of care for HCAHPS 2.0 success. (Video Duration 7mins:35s)
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Lesson 6
Nurse Communication
Explore techniques to elevate perceptions of communication, listening, and compassion between your nursing care teams, patients, and loved ones. (Video duration 6mins: 56s)
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Lesson 7
Doctor Communication
Focus on high impact opportunities to elevate patient perceptions of their experience with all medical staff beginning in the emergency department and their hospital stay. Learn how you can create strategies with physician champions leading the way in impacting patient. (Video Duration 10mins:17s)
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Lesson 8
Responsiveness of Hospital Staff
Gain tools and resources to adapt to new Responsiveness requirements of the Updated HCAHPS Survey. Dive into the questions patients use to rate on our responsiveness while staying in our hospital. Learn how patient perceptions may differ from our as providers and caregivers. (Video duration 4mins: 53s)
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Lesson 9
Cleanliness
Discover how leaders and staff can set patient expectations, narrate our work, and use patient rounding to gain real time feedback to make adjustments as needed to improve perceptions of cleanliness consistency. Grow in your knowledge of patient’s standard of expectations that guide their survey. (Video duration 6mins: 9s)
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Lesson 10
Medication Communication
Deep dive into the two items on the HCAHPS survey that affect your patients rating on how well they understand what we are saying when we give a new medication. This domain is critical to quality and patient experience outcomes. Learn ideas, strategies and techniques that will support your teams in excellent medication communication. (Video Duration 6mins:9s)
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Lesson 11
Discharge Communication
Discover the importance of clear and concise discharge communication, the risks of lack of adherence in discharge or transition instructions when leaving the hospital, and strategies to improve retention of information. Learn how to demonstrate the importance of medication communication, medical appointment follow-up, and all of the instructions given. (Video duration 7mins:1s)
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Lesson 12
Care Coordination: NEW DOMAIN
Communication consistency and collaboration are a new standard of accountability with the updated HCAHPS Survey. Every team member is mission critical to function as a team and project teamwork, upskill strategies to project care coordination. (Video Duration 10mins 25s)
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Lesson 13
Restfulness of Hospital Environment
Fostering a restful and quiet environment is an important new accountability measure for the updated HCAHPS Survey. Learn techniques to learn priorities, set and manage expectations, validate restfulness and elevate communication. Video Duration 6mins: 52s)
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Lesson 14
Information About Symptoms
Focus on bridging the transition from hospital to home in partnership with patients and care partners with techniques for communication, education and validation to ensure meaningful understanding of symptoms and care plan. (Video Duration 5mins:11s)
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Lesson 15
Leader Guide
Your leader support guide gives strategies to upskill your teams to elevate consistency and sustainability for your patient experience and HCAHPS improvement program. This lesson explores common pitfalls to avoid, measurement communication, universal leadership improvement techniques, and operating for impact. Support your leaders with a clear path to build momentum and sustain gains that maintain success in your organization.(Video Duration 17mins:6s)