Introduction: One of the most crucial responsibilities of the CEO in a hospital is to ensure that each patient is receiving the best medical care that the hospital can provide. In order to do that, hospitals need to incorporate business initiatives into their setting so they can gain loyal customers.
Thesis, or main claim: Using the Net Promoter System or NPS in a hospital setting can drastically improve the overall patient experience because of the useful strategies inculcated into the process.
Net Promoter System:
What is it?
A system used to track loyalty of customers through calculating an NPS score based on how patients may rate doctors, and their opinion about their health care provider. …show more content…
This method is helpful to invite more loyal patients and establish accountability of physicians in a hospital. It will ask patients the exact question that will help health care providers improve their service, according to their patients needs. That, in turn will produce not only more profits, but also good reputation.
How will it be used?
It will be incorporated into a hospital by first accumulating feedback forms from patients asking them to rate the doctor on a scale of 1-10 and explain the primary reason of the score. Answers to those simple questions will help health care personnel in a hospital to assess the common drawbacks of their service, so they can improve upon them and please more patients. Satisfied patients will refer the doctors in the hospital to other people and will become promoters. The hospital will benefit if it has more than 65% of a promoter score.
UPX (Ultimate Patient Experience) Score, formulated by the Vital Checklist is a new approach that addresses the feedback questions properly because it locates exactly what the hospital needs to improve upon.
Hospitals should aim to have more than a 65% of UPX Score in order to assure that they have provided patients with the “ultimate