Change Activation for Healthcare

Unless people change, nothing else will.

You’ve run the process fix, the new checklist, the compliance training. But satisfaction scores haven’t moved and employee turnover continues to be a challenge. Most change initiatives stall here. That’s where we come in.

You’ve run the process fix, the new checklist, the compliance training. But satisfaction scores haven’t moved and employee turnover continues to be a challenge. Most change initiatives stall here. That’s where we come in.

Global healthcare leaders trust us because we are uniquely equipped to build the beliefs and behaviors required to deliver results. We power the people side of change, helping healthcare leaders close patient satisfaction, safety, and retention gaps that process improvement alone will never touch.

Common Challenges in Healthcare

The healthcare industry is complex, and so are the issues you face. When you retain your top talent, you also solve a number of other challenges.

Digital Transformation
One barrier to ensuring a smooth digital transformation is high turnover. During your Culture Journey, you’ll begin creating new, positive experiences that increase engagement and retention.

Financial Health
Your organization needs to achieve impactful financial outcomes in a complex industry. We’ll help you build a culture that drives results regardless of extraneous circumstances.

Patient Satisfaction
As a healthcare professional, you’re highly dedicated to your patients. Aligned, accountable, and empowered cultures deliver high-quality care, ensuring patient satisfaction.

Powering the Frontlines and the Bottom Line

We hear the same tension from every leader that reaches out to us: the numbers aren’t moving and the frontline is already stretched thin. This is our sweet spot.

Here are the gaps we’re uniquely equipped to help you close:

What’s working against you

What you’re actually trying to achieve

  • Process and checklist fatigue — another audit, another initiative, no movement on the metric that matters
  • Patient satisfaction and HCAHPS scores that move — and hold
  • Process and checklist fatigue — another audit, another initiative, no movement on the metric that matters
  • Patient satisfaction and HCAHPS scores that move — and hold
  • Patient satisfaction or quality scores stuck for years despite constant process-improvement effort
  • Lower HAI, fall, and safety-incident rates without another mandate
  • Burnout, disengagement, and turnover among clinical staff who are already doing their best
  • Retention of clinical staff who feel ownership, not just workload
  • Leadership caught between driving improvement and not wanting to alienate exhausted care teams
  • A culture where accountability is the norm, not the exception

Powering the Frontlines and the Bottom Line

We hear the same tension from every leader that reaches out to us: the numbers aren’t moving and the frontline is already stretched thin. This is our sweet spot.

Here are the gaps we’re uniquely equipped to help you close:

What’s working against you

  • Process and checklist fatigue — another audit, another initiative, no movement on the metric that matters
  • Silos between nurses, techs, physicians, and case managers that break down exactly at the handoff
  • Patient satisfaction or quality scores stuck for years despite constant process-improvement effort
  • Burnout, disengagement, and turnover among clinical staff who are already doing their best
  • Leadership caught between driving improvement and not wanting to alienate exhausted care teams

What you’re actually trying to achieve

  • Patient satisfaction and HCAHPS scores that move — and hold
  • Consistent, coordinated care across every handoff, every shift
  • Lower HAI, fall, and safety-incident rates without another mandate
  • Retention of clinical staff who feel ownership, not just workload
  • A culture where accountability is the norm, not the exception

Emory Healthcare: A Client Story

Improving lives and providing help.

Culture of Care

How Healthcare Leaders Can Ease Employee Burnout and Turnover

Healthcare organizations face a growing number of challenges. Financial health, retention, digital transformation, and more issues plague an industry that needs to keep focus where it belongs: improving patients’ lives.

In this eBook, we’ll dive into the various ways in which culture is uniquely positioned to resolve these challenges. 

If you've already tried the process fix, you're not alone

This is close to universal in healthcare. We step in where most initiatives fail by addressing the underlying beliefs directly linked to business results.

Here are a few examples of the challenges we’ve stepped into—and the results our expertise has helped deliver for our clients.

Lack of ownership

A quaternary hospital’s leadership team redesigned its own ED workflow and set an aggressive stretch goal for lab turnaround time. Five days later, the number hadn’t moved at all. It’s not that the new process was wrong, but that nurses, techs, and physicians each believed the delay was someone else’s fault.

We turned that belief on its head. Within four days of working with us, their lab turnaround time dropped from 73 to 46 minutes.

Fixing the wrong problem

An integrated health system ran two full years of countless initiatives and compliance checklists to move patient satisfaction. It stayed flat at the 35th percentile the entire time. Unknown to leaders at the time, the root cause wasn’t a clinical issue but rather a quiet, unexamined belief the frontline held about how care should be delivered.

We tackled the issue at its source. Within 13 months of working with us, patient satisfaction jumped from the 35th percentile to the 73rd.

More training, same result

A top-10 U.S. hospital’s ED staff collected next-of-kin information only 42% of the time. After three months of dedicated process and compliance training, the needle only moved five points. Process and procedure weren’t working. What frontline employees needed was a clear connection between a seemingly administrative task and real human impact.

What they got was a wake-up call. Within 2 weeks of working with us, next-of-kin form completion rose to 92%—a 45-point jump.

If this sounds familiar—new workflow, new scorecard, new mandate, same result—the problem was never the process. It’s the beliefs driving the behavior underneath it. We drive results by activating the people layer of change. Amidst the complexities of the industry, there’s no better-suited partner than us to power tangible culture shifts that yield measurable results.
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We were, in fact, fixing the wrong problem — and we weren't even aware of it.”

A.J. Querciagrossa

President & CEO, OSF Home Care Services

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What makes the difference is how we have tied our culture to everything we do.”

Susan T. Carroll, FACHE, MHA, MBA

Regional Executive Officer, Eastern Region, Inova Health System

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In 12 years, never seen a hospital that does process improvement better”

Joint Commission Surveyor

Independent accreditation review

Real Stories, Real Results

Resources

Culture of Care

Our point of view on why clinical quality and safety metrics stall — and what closes the gap when process improvement alone doesn’t.

King Fahad Medical City

A 1,200-bed quaternary care hospital cut ER lab turnaround time by 37% in four days — by changing belief, not workflow.

OSF HealthCare (OSF Home Health)

Patient satisfaction moved from the 35th to the 73rd percentile in 13 months, after two years of process fixes moved nothing.

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