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Recently, Transformative Health interviewed Hella Ewing, VP and CNO, All Children’s Hospital (ACH), on improving processes to provide better healthcare. According to Ewing, the secret to improving healthcare is connecting more intimately with both patients and their families. “As CNO, the team and I are always looking for opportunities to better connect with our patients and families and incorporate their input into our plan of care,” she tells Transformative Health. “This is essential in improving patient outcomes and enhancing the patient experience.”
Her advice is timely. As recently reported by Healthcare Technology Online, the Future Physicians of America survey shows that patient-centered care is very popular among medical students, as 72 percent say they are likely to practice patient-centered care in their medical careers.
For Ewing, the main focus is family, which she says is “the center of everything.” She explains that ACH utilized its Family Advisory Council to film their daily interdisciplinary rounds, which physicians, patients, and family alike all participate in. They then uploaded the video to their Interactive Patient Care (IPC) system “to help educate new patients and show them what true patient engagement looks like.” It has paid off. Since uploading the video, ACH’s family satisfaction with the interdisciplinary rounds rose to above 80 percen