Healthcare Experience Matters

Welcome to the official podcast of the Healthcare Experience Foundation. Every one of the millions of small encounters that comprise the healthcare experience serves as a chance to seek excellence, change someone’s day, week, or month. These experiences may even change a patient’s outlook on life itself. This podcast’s mission is in lockstep with Health Experience Foundation’s ongoing drive to create demonstrable improvements in patient experiences of care. It exists to improve quality and safety outcomes and assist institutions with retaining star employees.
Episodes
Episodes



Thursday Mar 16, 2023
Addressing Burnout Through Deliberate Leadership
Thursday Mar 16, 2023
Thursday Mar 16, 2023
Did you know? Healthcare organizations have experienced 100% turnover in the last five years and burnout has become pervasive among the caregivers we rely on most to deliver safe, compassionate care.
Research continues to demonstrate employees stay (or leave) based on the relationship with their supervisor and the degree to which they feel supported in their work.
In today’s edition of the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast, make sure to join our team for a focused learning event on intentional leadership practices to restore workplace morale.
This broadcast includes the Healthcare Experience Foundation’s Brooke Billingsley, Vice President of Service Excellence, and two of our Executive Coaches: Kathleen Lynam, RN, MPA, and Dr. Deborah Zastocki, DNP, Ed.M, MA, RN.
Learn More: https://healthcareexperience.org/deliberate-leadership/



Thursday Mar 09, 2023
The Value of Social Intelligence in Healthcare Leadership with Dr. Paul Glisson
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Last time we spoke with today’s guest on the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast, Paul Glisson, D.O., MBA, FACEP, chatted with us about the benefits of strong emotional intelligence in healthcare. The conversation went so well that we invited him back for a repeat appearance.
This week we are chatting about the value of social intelligence in healthcare leadership with him. Although the discussion is aimed at those in leadership positions, the content of today’s chat will benefit employees working at any stage of their career in just about any role.
Dr. Glisson currently serves as chief medical officer with Infirmary Health in Mobile, Ala.
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/social/



Thursday Mar 02, 2023
One Doctor’s Story: How Humanitarian Work Can Fight Burnout
Thursday Mar 02, 2023
Thursday Mar 02, 2023
We have a return guest this week on Healthcare Experience Matters for a compelling chat on selflessness.
Trevor Turner, MD, is our guest once again. In this interview, we talk about his powerful relationship with giving back, medical volunteer work overall and the ways it helps reduce feelings of burnout.
Aid work has been the catalyst for Dr. Turner’s trademark compassion and empathy over the years as both a physician and in his everyday life away from work. As we chat about in today’s discussion, volunteering can provide a deeply fulfilling rejuvenation of energy.
It can provide healthcare workers – and really anyone -- with many lasting emotional rewards inside, including a reduction of burnout.
Dr. Turner is a physician coach with the Healthcare Experience Foundation. In addition to his HXF coaching role, Dr. Turner is Director of Center for Orthobiologics at Georgia Bone and Joint, a midsized orthopedics practice near Atlanta.
Learn More: https://healthcareexperience.org/humanitarian-work/



Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Building a Purpose-Driven Healthcare Organization with Tiffany C. Chaney, FACHE
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Tiffany C. Chaney, FACHE, joins the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast this week to discuss what it takes to build a purpose-driven healthcare organization. In addition to being a Fellow with the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE), Tiffany is Chief Diversity Officer with Baptist Health in Montgomery, Alabama.
She is guided by the belief that every single person deserves to receive equitable, high-quality health care.
Learn More: https://healthcareexperience.org/purpose-driven-healthcare/



Thursday Feb 16, 2023
Service Recovery for Improving the Patient Experience
Thursday Feb 16, 2023
Thursday Feb 16, 2023
Mary-Lyn Baldauf joins the Healthcare Experience Matters show this week delivering insight for improving the patient experience through a strong service recovery strategy.
Mary-Lyn is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Qsource. This is her inaugural appearance on our podcast.
Learn More: https://healthcareexperience.org/service-recovery/



Thursday Feb 09, 2023
Addressing the Problem of Nurse Bullying
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
Nearly half of the nursing workforce has reported experiencing bullying. All too often, the encounters are considered a "normal" part of the work environment.
We think it’s about time something is done to address this issue. Alongside our host, you will hear from three executive nurse leaders who share their expertise, best practices, and additional solutions for moving forward in our podcast this week.
This broadcast includes the Healthcare Experience Foundation’s Brooke Billingsley, Vice President of Service Excellence, and Executive Coaches, Kathleen Lynam, RN, MPA, and Dr. Deborah Zastocki, DNP, Ed.M, MA, RN.
Our panel is joined by our special guest, Kristen Johnson, MHA, BSN, RN, as we address a problem that affects people around the world and the patients we serve.
Learn More: https://healthcareexperience.org/nurse-bullying/



Thursday Feb 02, 2023
Surviving Tragic Times: Mental Wellbeing Tips for Healthcare Providers & Patients
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
Natural disasters and tragedy can strike without warning leaving us forever changed. Returning to work after a tragedy can prove to be an extremely difficult task for those of us on the front lines of health care.
This week on our podcast we are joined by Dr. Kacey Gibson to discuss helping our patients (and ourselves) through these difficult times.
Dr. Gibson is a family medicine doctor in Pensacola, Fla., and a Physician Coach faculty member with the Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF) team. Her experience with practicing medicine and dealing with hurricanes is extensive.
Learn More: https://healthcareexperience.org/mental-wellbeing/



Thursday Jan 26, 2023
Why Psychological Safety is so Important in Health Care
Thursday Jan 26, 2023
Thursday Jan 26, 2023
Today’s Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast episode covers psychological safety and its importance in a vibrant healthcare workplace. A workplace that takes protecting psychological safety seriously fosters a culture where individuals can speak up with new ideas, questions, and concerns in an effort to do better.
The patient experience can be elevated in environments that protect psychological safety. In a really strong psychologically safe environment, everyone feels like they can speak up and say what's on their mind. This is how teams can learn more from each other and ultimately deliver better patient care.
Our guest today is Stephan Wiedner, a psychological safety expert interviewed by our Podcast Director, Casey Callanan. Stephan Wiedner is a psychological safety expert whose career has focused on developing sustainable high-performance leaders, teams, and organizations.
In simple terms, psychological safety equates to having the courage to speak up and the confidence to know that when you do speak up, you will be heard.
Learn More: https://healthcareexperience.org/psychological-safety/



Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Making Traveler Nurses Feel Welcome & Elevating the Patient Experience
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Gordon I. Groh, MD, MBA, and Katie Owens join our Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast this week for a truly memorable discussion about making traveler nurses feel welcome and elevating the patient experience.
With labor models predicting shortages in the healthcare field into the next decade, retaining all nurses -- including traveler nurses -- should be a top priority.
“What's going to separate really great health care organizations from ones who perform average is how they're going to go deal with this issue over the next decade,” Dr. Groh said.
Dr. Groh is an orthopaedic surgeon at Asheville Orthopedic Associates with Mission Health in Asheville, NC. He is a nationally recognized expert in his field. Katie is President of the Healthcare Experience Foundation and Vice President with Professional Research Consultants (PRC).
Learn More: https://healthcareexperience.org/travel-nurses/



Thursday Jan 12, 2023
Expanding Your Rebound: Navigating 2023 with Agility
Thursday Jan 12, 2023
Thursday Jan 12, 2023
We encourage our podcast listeners to kick 2023 off by listening to this new broadcast from the Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF) about expanding your rebound and finding ways to navigate this new year with agility.
The importance of setting your top priorities for 2023 is explored in-depth within today’s episode of our weekly podcast.
Like many healthcare leaders, you may be experiencing:
Decreasing workforce engagement.
Recruitment and retention difficulties.
Heightened staffing challenges.
Despite these obstacles, we all know there are plenty of goals that need to be met. This podcast is co-hosted by three speakers from our HXF team: Katie Owens, Kathleen Lynam and Brooke Billingsley.
Learn More: https://healthcareexperience.org/expanding-your-rebound/



Thursday Jan 05, 2023
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
We are thrilled to be joined by Michelle Spurlock, MSN, MBA, for this week’s edition of the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast. This chat is focused on elevating the patient experience in behavioral health and engaging the behavioral health workforce.
Michelle currently serves as Vice President of Nursing Services with Acadia Healthcare. As a native of Louisville Kentucky, she has spent her 37-year nursing career dedicated to behavioral health. Her current role includes looking at ways to improve patient care, patient safety, and providing mentorship to new nursing leaders.
Learn More: https://healthcareexperience.org/behavioral-health/



Thursday Dec 29, 2022
The Three Strategies to Boost Physician Engagement Now
Thursday Dec 29, 2022
Thursday Dec 29, 2022
Three practical strategies that can be implemented to boost physician engagement are presented this week on our Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast.
We encourage you to make time for today’s episode with Dr. George Mayzell and Brooke Billingsley if physician engagement is a priority in your organization. This short podcast (less than 30 minutes long) could make a major difference in your strategic planning as we head into 2023.
Our Healthcare Experience Foundation coaching team, led by Dr. Mayzell and Brooke, share the results of our work at over 100 healthcare organizations to advance physician and provider engagement in this podcast.
We also share research on the most impactful strategies to restore resilience, compassionate practice, and loyalty. Our goal by the conclusion of this podcast is to have three practical strategies for you to take back to your organization.
Learn More: https://healthcareexperience.org/boost-physician-engagement/



Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Creating Conditions to Motivate a Staff of Busy Clinicians
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF) Executive Coach, Deborah Zastocki, DNP, Ed.M., MA, RN, NEA-BC, FACHE, joins our program this week. We are pleased to welcome her back to our podcast for a chat about creating conditions to motivate clinicians in busy environments.
Learn More: https://healthcareexperience.org/motivate-clinicians/



Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) with Matthew Whitaker, PhD
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Matthew Whitaker, PhD, joins our Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast this week for a timely discussion about Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI).
Dr. Whitaker is a faculty member here at the Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF) and he is the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Diamond Strategies, LLC.
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/jedi/



Thursday Dec 08, 2022
What Quiet Quitting Means for Your Healthcare Organization
Thursday Dec 08, 2022
Thursday Dec 08, 2022
Understanding the consequences of what quiet quitting means to the core of your healthcare organization is at heart of our episode this week. It is a discussion led by Brooke Billingsley and Karl J. Ahlrichs, SHRM-SCP, SPHR, CSP.
You may have heard the recent term quiet quitting. In this podcast we explore the quiet quitting phenomenon and look at the impact and cost it may have on your organization. Most importantly, our panel provides steps you can take as a leader to restore team purpose.
Learn More: https://healthcareexperience.org/quiet-quitting/



Thursday Dec 01, 2022
The BATHE Technique for Improved Physician/Patient Communication
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
We have Dr. Kacey Gibson back on our Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast this week for a chat about implementing the BATHE technique in your daily interactions as a healthcare provider.
Dr. Gibson is a family medicine doctor in Pensacola, Fla., and a Physician Coach faculty member with the Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF) team. She has an unrelenting passion for improving physician/patient communication.
BATHE is an acronym for Background, Affect, Trouble, Handling, and Empathy.
Learn More: https://healthcareexperience.org/bathe-technique/



Thursday Nov 24, 2022
Conflict Management Through Communication in Healthcare
Thursday Nov 24, 2022
Thursday Nov 24, 2022
Today we dive into one of the most frequently requested topics that we get here at the Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF) and that is conflict.
This week’s episode of the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast covers:
Interpersonal conflict in our day-to-day interactions
Conflict between leaders and team members
Peer-to-peer conflict
Conflict between individuals and their reporting supervisor
This broadcast is a repurposed webinar from the HXF team. It has been condensed for a more friendly podcast listening experience. This episode is hosted by the HXF’s Katie Owens.
Learn More: https://healthcareexperience.org/conflict-management/



Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Providing Great Patient Experiences to Move Your Culture Forward with Lara Burnside
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Our friend Lara Burnside is back on the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast this week. Lara and our Podcast Director, Casey Callanan, discuss the art of providing great patient experiences to move our workplace culture forward in this new podcast.
Lara currently serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Experience Officer, with JPS Health Network in Texas. Lara has been a healthcare professional for more than two decades with experience in all levels of hospital leadership. We are extremely excited for her second appearance on our show this week.
Learn More: https://healthcareexperience.org/patient-experiences-culture/



Thursday Nov 10, 2022
How to Fix Incivility in the Workplace with Jeff Robbins
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Tackling some of the toughest topics in healthcare is what this podcast is all about and for many folks out there, few things are as seemingly difficult as battling incivility. We are grateful for the return of Jeff Robbins, MBA, CPXP, to our Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast this week as we discuss fighting incivility in the workplace.
Jeff is the Director of Coaching here at the Healthcare Experience Foundation. He encompasses a deep passion for fighting incivility in the workplace. As he talks about in-depth on today’s recording, it was his own experience dealing with incivility that shaped his desire to fight it.
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/fix-incivility/



Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Defining Excellent Patient Experience Leadership with Hope Brown
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
We are excited to welcome Hope Brown back to the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast this week for a discussion about patient experience leadership.
Hope is the Patient Experience Director with Children's Hospital and Medical Center, a regional pediatric specialty health care center in Omaha, Nebraska.
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/hope-brown/



Thursday Oct 27, 2022
What Music Therapy Can Teach Us with Jenna Bollard-Marcovitz, MA, MT-BC, CCLS
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
This week we learn what the field of music therapy can teach us about mindfulness, fighting burnout, and its impact on patient experiences. Our guest is Jenna Bollard-Marcovitz, MA, MT-BC, CCLS.
She brings us a powerful interview on the role of music therapy in today’s healthcare environment.
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/music-therapy/



Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Compassionate Leadership and the Art of Being Kinder to Ourselves
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
This week’s guest on the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast is Brooke Billingsley. She has been a healthcare professional for more than 25 years and currently serves as Vice President of Service Excellence with the Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF).
Brooke will be a featured speaker at our upcoming Compassionate Leadership event. Brooke is a leading voice when it comes to communicating the principles and importance of self-compassion. On today’s podcast she brings us crucial wisdom on how to be kinder to ourselves while demonstrating the value of self-forgiveness.
Learn more about today's chat with Brooke: https://healthcareexperience.org/being-kinder/
Compassionate Leadership Virtual Training
We want to remind you that time is almost up to register for next week’s Compassionate Leadership Certificate event taking place October 27 and 28, 2022 from 9am to 1pm EST.
You can learn more here: https://bit.ly/3gnW10X
And register now here: https://bit.ly/3VEQkvM



Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Tips for Giving Feedback and Overcoming Impression Management
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
To create learning and improvement, giving feedback is essential. This week, our podcast explores what gets in the way of effective feedback and dives into our top five strategies to give more effective feedback.
Katie Owens is our featured speaker for today’s episode. She currently serves as HXF Co-Founder and President.
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/giving-feedback/



Thursday Oct 06, 2022
Exploring the Burden of Empathetic Distress in Healthcare
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
This week we are joined by a veteran guest of the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast to discuss the different ways we can work to move past empathetic distress as healthcare workers.
We welcome back Kathleen Lynam, RN, MPA, for a very important and timely discussion on this pressing issue in the healthcare community that impacts society as a whole too.
Kathleen is an Executive Coach and Senior Advisor with the Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF). She brings decades of nursing leadership experience to the conversation.
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/empathetic-distress



Thursday Sep 29, 2022
What Patient Experience Excellence Looks Like with Lara Burnside
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Defining patient experience excellence is at the foundation of our podcast interview this week with Lara Burnside. Lara is Senior Vice President, Chief Experience Officer with JPS Health Network in Texas. With 25 years of experience in this field under her belt, we are extremely excited for her inaugural appearance on the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast.
JPS is the public hospital in Tarrant County, Texas. It serves Fort Worth and the surrounding areas within Tarrant County. According to Lara, JPS currently has about 7200 employees and 1.2 million patient encounters throughout their hospital and clinics. JPS is the largest behavioral health provider in North Texas.
Lara has been a healthcare professional for more than two decades with experience in all levels of hospital leadership.
Learn More: https://healthcareexperience.org/lara-burnside/



Thursday Sep 22, 2022
What it Takes to Restore a Culture of Civility in Healthcare
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
The need to foster healthy work environments for our leaders, staff and physicians and equip our teams with tools to broaden civility and combat incivility is at an all-time high.
Over the past 12 months our Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF) team’s research and coaching have uncovered an unprecedented cost attached to incivility within healthcare organizations. Join Healthcare Experience Foundation's Jeff Robbins, Director of HX Coaching, for today’s episode of our podcast to explore the purpose and impact of civility.
“Civility is complex. It can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. But what I feel is that it's best defined as respect in action,” he said.
This episode is a condensed version of a recent live learning event from the HXF team. It has been edited down and repackaged into a friendly podcast listening experience.
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/culture-of-civility/



Thursday Sep 15, 2022
How Leadership Behavior Helps Reduce Employee Turnover
Thursday Sep 15, 2022
Thursday Sep 15, 2022
Joining us this week is Deborah K. Zastocki, DNP, EdM, MA, RN, NEA-BC, FACHE(r). She brings her expertise to our show while expressing her thoughts on how effective leadership can aid in reducing employee turnover.
Deborah is a Coach with us here at the Healthcare Experience Foundation. With more than 30 years of experience, Deborah’s professional career has been highlighted as a clinical professional journey from staff nurse to nurse executive roles, author, adjunct faculty, and healthcare executive. We are excited to have her join our podcast for the first time.
We are excited to have her join our podcast for the first time. Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/reduce-employee-turnover/



Thursday Sep 08, 2022
Advancing the Patient Experience in Children’s Healthcare
Thursday Sep 08, 2022
Thursday Sep 08, 2022
Hope Brown joins the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast this week to share her thoughts on what it takes to advance the patient experience in pediatric care.
On today’s discussion, we learn about some key challenges that exist when it comes to providing excellent patient experiences for children.
Hope currently serves as Director of Patient Experience with Children’s Hospital and Medical Center – Omaha in Nebraska.
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/childrens-healthcare/



Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Communication and Patient Empathy in Fast-Paced Settings with Dr. Kacey Gibson
Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Today’s podcast with Dr. Kacey Gibson might best be summed up in three simple words: “Just Be Human.”
We are excited to be joined by Dr. Gibson for the first time on our Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast this week. She delivers a terrific interview regarding the importance of careful communication with patients.
We also talk in-depth about maintaining strong empathy for our patients in fast-paced environments. To go along with that empathy, Dr. Gibson talks with us about the importance of always utilizing easy-to-understand plain language.
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/patient-empathy



Thursday Aug 25, 2022
New Research on the Practical Application of Leader Behaviors
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
This week on the Healthcare Experience Matters podcast we are exploring the practical application of new research on leader behaviors. This is a fantastic recap on what’s new in this field and how we can apply it to our everyday working environments in patient care.
This episode is a condensed version of a recent live learning event from the Healthcare Experience Foundation’s content team. This learning event has been edited down and repackaged into a friendly podcast listening experience. We hope you enjoy this opportunity to catch up on this important subject matter.
This chat is led by the Healthcare Experience Foundation’s Kathleen Lynam. Kathleen is Executive Coach and Senior Advisor with HXF. She has dedicated her entire career to patient care and physician coaching.
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/leader-behaviors



Thursday Aug 18, 2022
An Insider’s Guide to Leading with Compassion
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
We are excited to bring you an insider’s guide to leading with compassion this week on the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast. Our guest is Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF) Co-founder and President, Katie Owens.
“Compassionate leaders are self-motivated. They're able to influence employees and medical staff positively,” she told us.
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/leading-with-compassion



Thursday Aug 11, 2022
A Thank You to Our Nation’s Healthcare Workers from Our Podcast Director
Thursday Aug 11, 2022
Thursday Aug 11, 2022
After the recent birth of his first child, Healthcare Experience Foundation’s Podcast Director, Casey Callanan, joins the Healthcare Experience Matters as a guest this week. While typically serving as the host, this is the first time Casey has joined our podcast as a guest since the show’s inception in 2021.
After receiving an outstanding patient experience upon the birth of his first child, today’s episode is a heartfelt thank you to healthcare workers around the United States and world. This is an episode full of gratitude and can hopefully serve to brighten people’s day who work in patient care.
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/thank-you



Thursday Aug 04, 2022
Thursday Aug 04, 2022
Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF) Physician Coach, Trevor Turner, MD, brings his enthusiasm for the patient experience to our podcast this week. Dr. Turner joins us for a discussion about upholding empathy and thorough communication in a demanding patient care setting.
In addition to his HXF coaching role, Dr. Turner is Director of Center for Orthobiologics at Georgia Bone and Joint, a midsized orthopedics practice near Atlanta.
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/maintaining-empathy/



Thursday Jul 28, 2022
Building a Positive Workplace Culture in Healthcare that Lasts
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
How to build and sustain a positive workplace culture is explored this week on the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast.
Katie Owens, Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF) co-founder and president is our guest. We are excited to welcome Katie back for this crucial conversation on the ins and outs of creating a positive workplace culture that lasts.
It is far from a secret that there is often a profound difference in the quality of the interactions we have with disengaged team members versus those that are engaged.
“Engagement is at the core of our ability to leverage and influence all of our balance scorecard outcomes,” Katie said.
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/



Thursday Jul 21, 2022
Simple Tips for Efficient and Effective Physician/Patient Communication
Thursday Jul 21, 2022
Thursday Jul 21, 2022
Everyone is pressed for time in healthcare and effective communication has always been a top priority. Effective communication does not necessarily need to take more time to implement though.
As we learn on today’s podcast episode with Dr. George Mayzell, often it’s a matter of rephrasing things.
Today’s podcast episode comes with a companion infographic with many suggestions for better using language when providing care and comfort to patients. We hope you will find it useful to read before or after listening to today’s episode with Dr. Mayzell. You can access it here: https://bit.ly/3v3iq8C
Did you know? Effective physician-patient communication has been shown to positively influence health outcomes by increasing patient satisfaction, leading to greater patient understanding of health problems and treatments available, contributing to better adherence to treatment plans, and providing support and reassurance to patients.
More about today's episode: https://healthcareexperience.org/effective-communication/



Thursday Jul 14, 2022
”Never Stop Gratitude” with Author TJ Sweet
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Author TJ Sweet joins the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast this week to discuss his book, “Practice Gratitude: Find Joy.” He brings us inspiring and practical ideas for how we can better implement gratitude in our daily lives.
No matter what path your career journey has taken you on, there are sure to be several useful takeaways for building gratitude in this podcast.
TJ is an accomplished keynote speaker, writer, and certified life and business coach. In addition to being an author, he is a podcaster, YouTuber, and an all-around media enthusiast.
Learn more about today's show: https://healthcareexperience.org/tj-sweet



Thursday Jul 07, 2022
Keeping it Simple to Drive Excellent Patient Experiences
Thursday Jul 07, 2022
Thursday Jul 07, 2022
Making his second appearance as a guest on the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast this week is Jeff Robbins. Jeff joins us for a memorable discussion on what drives his passion for promoting excellent patient experiences.
As you will hear on today’s show, Jeff explains in simple terms how healthcare professionals can engage their patients to drive excellent experiences. We are grateful for Jeff’s candor on today’s emotional podcast interview.
“My Mom had the worst outcome you could have; however, the patient experience itself was fantastic,” Jeff told us.
Midway through today’s episode Jeff shares a personal story about his own mother’s experience in the hospital. This story has helped shape the passion he has for the coaching work he is a part of with the Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF).
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/patient-experiences



Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Influencing Compassion in our Organizations as Healthcare Leaders
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Mark S. Rulle, EdD, leads our discussion this week on the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast. This is a chat about influencing compassion in our organizations as healthcare leaders.
Mark currently serves as President of Maryland Healthcare Education Institute (MHEI). For those that may be new to our podcast, the Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF) and MHEI have been teaming up to present the Certificate in Foundations of Compassionate Leadership virtual cohort sessions over the past year.
This podcast is an inspiring clip from a session Mark presented at a past event. It has been edited and shortened for a friendly podcast listening experience.
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/influencing-compassion/



Thursday Jun 23, 2022
How Physicians Can Mitigate Burnout by Maintaining a Positive Practice Culture
Thursday Jun 23, 2022
Thursday Jun 23, 2022
Our guest this week on Healthcare Experience Matters is Natasha Beauvais, MD, MPH. Dr. Beauvais joins us for a discussion about reducing burnout in healthcare through maintaining a positive practice culture.
She is a board-certified family medicine physician with Northern Virginia Family Practice.
Burnout and culture are two cornerstone topics of conversation on our podcast. Today’s chat with Dr. Beauvais brings another fresh perspective on these pressing subjects.
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/mitigate-burnout/



Thursday Jun 16, 2022
Navigating Generational Diversity in Healthcare and Beyond
Thursday Jun 16, 2022
Thursday Jun 16, 2022
Lorraine Parker-Clegg joins the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast this week for a truly inspiring chat about navigating generational diversity.
Lorraine touches on the challenges and benefits of a multigenerational workforce when it comes to working in healthcare and other industries. She also brings the discussion back to its impact on the patient experience.
Lorraine has deep expertise in engaging the multigenerational workforce. She has an extensive healthcare and human resources background.
“Ultimately, every facet of the world that we’re living in from a human resources standpoint is impacted by this,” Lorraine said.
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/generational-diversity/



Thursday Jun 09, 2022
The Patient Experience in a Multilingual Setting
Thursday Jun 09, 2022
Thursday Jun 09, 2022
This week on the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast we have Ninfa Segarra, JD, and Maureen Eisner join us to discuss the patient experience in a multilingual setting. Examining the logistical challenges and importance of striving for excellent patient outcomes in a multilingual environment is at the heart of today’s podcast.
With SBH Health System, Ninfa is Senior Vice President, Communications & External Affairs, Community & Government Affairs, and Chief Diversity Officer. Maureen is the Vice President of Patient Experience and Bioethics with SBH Health System.
SBH Health System is a major safety net hospital in The Bronx in New York City. As we learn on today’s podcast, SBH serves a needy and wonderful community in the largest, most diverse city in America.
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/multilingual-hospital/



Thursday Jun 02, 2022
What it Takes to Build a Top Ten Most-trusted Healthcare Brand
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
On today’s episode of the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast we chat with someone who knows what it takes to build an extremely trusted healthcare brand. Timothy Seay-Morrison, EdD, LCSW, joins us to discuss his passion for advancing the patient experience and how it all factors in to building a trusted healthcare brand.
Dr. Seay-Morrison is Executive Director of Ambulatory Care and Service Lines with Stanford Health Care in Palo Alto, California.
In a report released last year from Monigle, the AHA (American Hospital Association), and SHSMD (Society for Health Care Strategy and Market Development), Stanford Health Care ranked in the top ten of the most-trusted health care brands.
We catch up with Dr. Seay-Morrison on today’s show to learn more about his role as Executive Director of Ambulatory Care and Service Lines and how the tireless commitment to improving the patient experience helped Stanford Health Care achieve this honor.
More about today's podcast: https://healthcareexperience.org/trusted-healthcare-brand/
To learn more about this report from Monigle, you can visit Monigle's website: https://www.monigle.com/hbe-v4/
For more information about Stanford Healthcare, please visit: https://stanfordhealthcare.org/



Thursday May 26, 2022
Thursday May 26, 2022
Joe Snipp, Vice President of Patient Experience and Consumerism with Aspirus Health visits the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast today. Joe shares his unwavering passion for his job and his thoughts on the importance of a proactive approach for continuously enhancing the patient experience.
Headquartered in Wausau, Wisconsin, Aspirus Health is a non-profit, community-directed health system with 11,000 employees serving patients throughout Wisconsin and Upper Michigan.
As a data-driven individual, Joe has been working in the worlds of healthcare, statistics, and teaching for well over twenty years. It was during this time he gained what he calls, “a burning passion for the patient experience.”
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/joe-snipp



Thursday May 19, 2022
The Code Breathe Initiative with Dr. Joshua Schwarzbaum
Thursday May 19, 2022
Thursday May 19, 2022
Our guest on today’s episode of the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast is Dr. Joshua Schwarzbaum. He joins us to discuss the “Code Breathe” initiative that he helped develop in the Emergency Department at St. Barnabas Hospital in New York City.
Dr. Schwarzbaum is a board-certified emergency medicine physician with SBH Health System in the Bronx.
At its essence, the initiative is about taking roughly five minutes a day to sit down as a team of colleagues to breathe and relax. It’s a chance to be mindful in an effort to re-energize and re-focus as a collective group. He provides deep insight for us on today’s episode about this very successful initiative.
You can learn more here: https://healthcareexperience.org/code-breathe



Thursday May 12, 2022
Speed to Trust: What Can We Gain with Better Senior Leader Rounding?
Thursday May 12, 2022
Thursday May 12, 2022
Today’s Healthcare Experience Matters podcast episode features a recent webinar from the Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF). This webinar is entitled, “Speed to Trust: What Can We Gain with Better Senior Leader Rounding?”
If you missed the webinar earlier this month, we are making it available now and fully on-demand through our weekly podcast. This recording has been edited and shortened for a friendly podcast listening experience.
The discussion is led by Katie Owens. Katie is Co-Founder and President of HXF. To help put things into perspective, Katie starts this webinar with a powerful quote from American author and organizational anthropologist, Judith Glaser:
"To get to the next level of greatness depends on the quality of the culture, which depends on the quality of relationships, which depends on the quality of conversations. Everything happens through conversations."
This quote illustrates the challenge of restoring a culture of trust and confidence in the workforce, a key theme throughout today’s webinar.
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/speed-to-trust



Thursday May 05, 2022
Simple Ways to Authentically Show Gratitude as Healthcare Leaders
Thursday May 05, 2022
Thursday May 05, 2022
Win Howard is once again our guest on Healthcare Experience Matters. Win joins our podcast to discuss a topic that is near and dear to his heart—gratitude. Today’s discussion focuses on the implementation of gratitude in straightforward and unique ways to make a genuine impact on people.
There are takeaways from the discussion that are helpful to those in healthcare leadership positions, but the basic principles of this discussion are applicable to folks in any walk of life.
As loyal listeners of this podcast can attest, Win is a devoted and passionate healthcare leader. He currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Asante Three Rivers Medical Center. Located in the rural setting of Grants Pass, Oregon, Asante Three Rivers Medical Center is a 120-bed facility with about 1200 employees. It is a 5-star CMS hospital.
The impact of employee culture and its influence on both the patient experience and safety was the focus of our first chat with Win. This interview took place in December 2021 and you can listen to it here: https://healthcareexperience.org/win-howard/
Learn more about this episode: https://healthcareexperience.org/win-howard-gratitude More about the Healthcare Experience Foundation: https://healthcareexperience.org/



Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Practicing Emotional Intelligence as a Healthcare Provider
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Our guest on this week’s episode of Healthcare Experience Matters is Paul Glisson, D.O., MBA, FACEP. Dr. Glisson currently serves as chief medical officer with Infirmary Health in Mobile, Ala.
Today’s discussion centers around Dr. Glisson’s thoughts on the importance of emotional intelligence and its value to the worldwide community of healthcare workers and the patient experience.
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/emotional-intelligence



Thursday Apr 21, 2022
Why Compassion is Needed Now with Kathleen Lynam, RN, MPA
Thursday Apr 21, 2022
Thursday Apr 21, 2022
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines compassion as “a sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it." In other words, compassion is about recognizing that someone is suffering and trying to help them.
We all have our own definition of compassion and we all know what it means to us as individuals, but it is abundantly clear based on our chat with today’s podcast guest: compassion is needed now. Compassion is especially important to those that work in healthcare.
In this week’s newest episode of the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast, Kathleen Lynam, RN, MPA, joins us to chat all things compassion. Kathleen is an Executive Coach and Senior Advisor with the Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF). She brings decades of nursing leadership experience to the conversation.
Learn more about today's episode: https://healthcareexperience.org/compassion-now
For those looking to explore this topic more in-depth, please consider attending the Certificate in Foundations of Compassionate Leadership event. Virtual training for this event will take place on May 12 & 13, 2022, from 9am-1pm EST.
This program is offered by the Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF) and Maryland Healthcare Education Institute (MHEI), and you can get more information on this event here: https://www.mhei.org/events/virtual-training-certificate-in-foundations-of-compassionate-leadership/



Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Knowing Your Strengths to Improve the Patient Experience
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
The Healthcare Experience Matters podcast welcomes back Katie Owens to our program this week. We chat about strategies for identifying and understanding our own strengths and weaknesses.
Through our interview with Katie, we strive to uncover the various ways we can improve the patient experience by recognizing and embracing our own strengths.
As we learn on today’s episode, it can be easy to lose track of what we do well when we get fixated on our weaknesses. This episode serves as a reminder to the power of expanding and amplifying our strengths.
Katie Owens is the Co-Founder and President of the Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF). The HXF mission is audaciously simple: shaping cultures so every person can receive and deliver the best healthcare experience.
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/know-your-strengths



Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Joining us for this week’s installment of our podcast is Barry Fleming from the Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF) Team. We discuss takeaways, inspiring stories about elevating the patient experience, and more from The Beryl Institute ELEVATE PX 2022 Conference. This event took place late last month in Indianapolis.
Learn more: https://healthcareexperience.org/elevate-px-2022/