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Universal Health Services

Manages hospitals and behavioral health facilities

Patient Experience Coordinator

Clinical Support & Patient AdministrationConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeLaredo, TX, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • An active registered nurse license is required.
  • An associate's degree is required; a bachelor's degree is preferred.
  • At least five years of experience in consumer advocacy, patient relations, or a related field is preferred.
  • Demonstrated experience working with patients and families is required.
  • Previous clinical experience is required.
  • Professional experience demonstrating a progressive leadership background is required.
  • Basic Life Support and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support are required.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and monitor patient-experience strategies collaboratively with hospital management.
  • Use patient-experience data collection resources and feedback to facilitate processes that improve patients' perceptions.
  • Serve as an education resource specialist for new and existing staff and volunteers on AIDET, service excellence, service recovery, patient-satisfaction database management, and the Patient and Family Advocacy Program.
  • Drive operational improvements through teams using performance-improvement tools.
  • Conduct daily leadership rounding with AIDET and nursing-bundle observations and coaching, and monitor leadership-rounding feedback.
  • Attend leadership-rounding debriefing meetings; compile, track, and trend feedback; report it weekly to leadership; create action plans; and review their progress weekly.
  • Support nursing leadership in identifying improvement opportunities related to bedside shift reports, intentional rounding, individualized care, and discharge phone calls.
  • Enter all complaints into Midas and distribute them to management staff for follow-up.
  • Ensure timely issue identification and resolution, including preparing written responses to grievances in compliance with regulatory requirements.
  • Manage information accurately and promptly for reporting to oversight and regulatory bodies.
  • Provide Press Ganey education and access, and collaborate with directors on performance-improvement action plans for areas below the 80th percentile, with monthly updates.
  • Monitor patient-experience scores weekly and monthly; identify improvements, decreases, and trends in Press Ganey and HCAHPS; and report data trends monthly.
  • Distribute comments regularly to management staff, track and trend comment feedback monthly, identify improvement needs, create action plans, and review the process monthly.
  • Strengthen, personalize, and enhance relationships between patients and the organization.

Desired Qualifications

  • A bachelor's degree is preferred.
  • At least five years of experience in consumer advocacy, patient relations, or a related field is preferred.

About the Company

Universal Health Services

Manages hospitals and behavioral health facilities

Universal Health Services operates a network of acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, and ambulatory centers across the United States. It generates its services by acquiring and managing healthcare facilities, then integrating them under centralized operating practices to deliver patient care. The company’s offering is the management and provision of hospital and behavioral health services, with a focus on standardized clinical operations, economies of scale, and nationwide coverage. What sets UHS apart is its long history of growth through acquisitions, its size and scale in both acute and behavioral health markets, and its ability to integrate new facilities while maintaining consistent care quality. Its goal is to provide high-quality healthcare across a broad network, improve patient outcomes, and sustain long-term value for shareholders by expanding access and efficiency in hospital and behavioral health services.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania
Founded
1978

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