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Giving Patients a Voice

Unit-based teams bring the voice of frontline workers, managers and physicians to improving health care at Kaiser Permanente. Some UBTs go one step further and include the patient voice. Find out how they do it.

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Learning by Listening: Patient Advisory Councils

RN Kathy Stafford

Curiosity Leads to Better Service

Staff members go over discharge paperwork

Work With Patients to Ensure Follow-Up Appointments

Also in This Issue

  • Around the Regions (Fall 2014) What teams across KP are doing in partnership.
  • From the Desk of Henrietta: Mind, Body, Service Give patients a voice.

Tips and Tools

  • Poster: How UBTs Can Listen to Patient Voices Bring the voice of patients into your improvement work.
  • Fish Out Your Root Cause Help your team use a fishbone diagram.
  • Poster: Time for Flu Shots Protect yourself, your family and your patients.

Puzzles and Games

  • Word Scramble: Patient Participation Get your team’s creative juices flowing.
  • Hank Libs: Caring for Patients With Heart Generate ideas for listening to new voices.
  • SuperScrubs: Through the Patient's Eyes Helping providers see through the eyes of the patient.
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