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Justin Reed talks about the relationship between patient experience scores and employee engagement.

Assistant Chief Justin Reed from Cy Fair Volunteer Ambulance Service talks about improving overall patient experience ratings by engaging employee feedback sessions with management. According to his findings lower patient experience scores become an early predictor of employee engagement and create a path for early intervention to invest in employees and help them succeed. Assistant Chief Justin Reed is Committee Chair to the National EMS Management Association’s Quality and Performance Improvement Committee, and Cy Fair Volunteer Fire Department Assistant Chief of Emergency Medical Services.

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October 12, 2017

Why Do Top Box Scores Matter in the EMS Industry?

Patient Experience Scores, Top Box, and Percentiles:How to Use Metrics for Measuring, Reporting and Goal Setting Webcast Journal of Emergency Medical Services (JEMS)  In honor of National EMS Week, EMS Survey Team (EMSST) joined JEMS for a webcast that covered the importance of patient experience scores, and top box analysis scores. In this post we will explore one of the patient experience survey metrics – top box scores – and how this metric is useful in patient survey data analysis.   What is a Top Box Score? The sum of percentages for the highest possible rating on a customer satisfaction survey.

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August 23, 2016

Recent Changes to Value Based Payment in the Healthcare Industry Foreshadow Change for EMS

The spring issue of National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians News just published  THE BENEFITS OF BEING NICE: Exploring the role of the patient experience in the EMS transformation. In this article, Bobby J. Hopewell (President and CEO of Mobile Health Resources and EMS Survey Team) and Matt Zavadsky (Public Affairs Director for MedStar Mobile Healthcare and a Director-at-Large on NAEMT Board of Directors) explore how CMS and payers are driving changes that will soon impact the EMS industry. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently implemented performance bonuses and penalties based on patient experience scores for physicians,

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April 11, 2016

Best Practices in Patient Experience Q&A

The following Q&A is provided as a follow-up to our recent Webcast, “Best Practices in Patient Experience.” If you’re actively surveying or considering survey options, this post is a must read. How would this practice work with hospital-based EMS systems where the hospital uses it’s own survey? An EMS survey complements the hospital’s questionnaire, which is always geared toward the patient’s experience while in the hospital. Conducted separately and based on patient data you provide, EMS Survey Team would ask questions specific to your response time, care, and interaction with each patient. Our questionnaire aligns with the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare

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March 15, 2016

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