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Achieving Service Excellence: Strategies for Healthcare
Myron D. Fottler, Robert C. Ford, Cherrill P. Heaton

Paperback: 422 pages
ISBN 1567931901
Health Administration Press
August 2002
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It is crucial that you keep your customers from defecting to competing providers. 

On any particular day, a patient can deem your health care organization and its services a disappointment. One unfortunate incident can cost you the goodwill of that patient and anyone that patient knows.

Improve your customer service with the tools and techniques detailed in Achieving Service Excellence: Strategies for Healthcare. Combining real-world examples with the most significant research on service management, this valuable guide presents the best available information on providing the best customer service. Explore new ways to:

  • Assess your organization to determine your core competencies
  • Empower patients and families to "co-produce" their own healthcare experience
  • Recruit and hire people who "love to serve"
  • Predict and plan the kinds of healthcare experiences customers will find satisfying
  • Train, motivate, and inspire employees to provide outstanding service
  • Manage the inevitable wait times for healthcare service
  • Prevent service failures and problems
  • Create and encourage a customer-focused culture
  • Develop action plans to implement customer service initiatives
  • Use information technology to add quality and value to the healthcare experience

Recommended by ACHE, this guide presents information for executives and managers who want to implement a customer-focused service strategy and improve their customer service efforts. The book cites examples of how the best customer service organizations perform, and identifies how they measure and deliver an experience that exceeds customer expectations. The three main components of strategy, staff, and systems are examined.

Founded in 1933, the American College of Healthcare Executives is an international professional society of 30,000 healthcare executives who lead our nation's hospitals, healthcare systems, and other healthcare organizations. ACHE's publishing division, Health Administration Press, is one of the largest publishers of books and journals on all aspects of health services management. Health Administration Press is a division of the Foundation of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). ACHE is an international professional society of 30,000 healthcare executives who lead our nation's hospitals, healthcare systems, and other healthcare organizations. ACHE is known for its prestigious credentialing and educational programs and its annual Congress on Healthcare Management, which draws more than 4,000 participants each year. ACHE is also known for its magazine, Healthcare Executive, as well as its groundbreaking research and career development and public policy programs. Through such efforts, ACHE works toward its goal of being the premier professional society for healthcare leaders by providing exceptional value to its members. Founded in 1972 with support from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Health Administration Press has grown from a small office on the campus of the University of Michigan to one of the largest publishers of books and journals on all aspects of health services management, including textbooks for use in college and university courses. Now located in downtown Chicago, the Press also publishes two journals, the Journal of Healthcare Management and Frontiers of Health Services Management

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