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Customer Service in Health Care: A Grassroots Approach to Creating a Culture of Service Excellence; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; About the Author; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Why Customer Service?; What Are the Standards of Behavior?; The Golden Rule with a New Twist; Expectations Are Higher in Health Care; The Direct and Indirect Costs of a Bad Experience; A Look at Revenue Loss; What Reputation Can Do; Don't Just Satisfy Them, Get Them Talking!; Satisfaction or Excellence?; What Would You Like Them to Say about You?; Customer Service as It Relates to Business Development
SummaryReferences; Chapter Two: Setting Your Course-Senior Leadership Takes the Wheel; Top-Down Communication; Articulating Core Values; Articulating Organizational Values; What Message Have You Given Managers?; Leadership Skills Assessment; Do You Have the Right People in Management?; Leading toward a Corporate Culture of Service Excellence; Making Sure All the Leadership Team Are on the Same Page; Today's Health Care Managers; Mentor, Monitor, and Measure; Clarify What Is Expected of Managers; Bottom-Line Results; Reinforcing Positive Behavior; Eliminating Problem Behavior
It's Not a Program-It's a Way of LifeSummary; References; Chapter Three: Championing Buy-In and Ownership- You Can't Do It Alone; The Customer Service Champion; Creating a Customer Service Team; Lessons Learned from Team Member Selection; Getting Support from the Top; Creating a Team Mission Statement; Defining Expectations of Team Members; Ground Rules; Team Goals; Summary; Chapter Four: Where Are You Now?-Establishing Your Baseline; Gathering Baseline Data; Baseline-the Patients' Perspective; Baseline-the Employees' Perspective; Baseline-the Medical Staff's Perspective
Seeing the Big PictureSummary; Reference; Chapter Five: Creating Meaningful Standards to Live By; Why Create Standards for Customer Service Performance?; Who Should Define the Standards?; Look for Role Models; Make It Their Idea; Focus Group Objectives and Discussion Guide; Conducting Focus Groups; Scheduling the Groups; Extending a Welcome; Setting the Ground Rules; Summarizing the Results; Moving from Discussion to Specific Behaviors; Summary; References; Chapter Six: The Training Sessions-Getting Everyone on the Same Page; Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
One Size Doesn't Fit All-Understanding Unique Training NeedsManagement Training; Tie the Message to Existing Policy; Keep It Interesting; Rethink the New-Employee Orientation; Corporatewide Training; Make Training Accessible and Diversified; Who Should Be Included in the Training Sessions?; Session Evaluations; Graduating to a Second-Generation Customer Service Team; Summary; References; Chapter Seven: Keeping the Effort Alive; The Real Work Begins; Departmental Action Plans; Make Your Promise Visible; Provide Patient Satisfaction Data; Coach the Coaches; Communication; Employee Newsletters
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