Here is a really neat program at NYU's Tisch Hospital. Employee volunteers (each one serves for one hour per day for one week every other month) visit patient rooms and conduct a quick on-the-spot survey of patient needs and follow up to solve a series of common problems -- do the phone and TV work properly; are the room and bathroom clean; did you get the meal you ordered. The Ready Resolvers either fix or call in any problems imediately. The responding departments are responsible for resolving the problems within two hours. If they cannot fix the problem right away, they send a staff member to visit the patient to explain in person.
This began as a pilot in June on three units, with 27 volunteers. It was expanded in August to 4 additional units, with 63 volunteers.
Interesting, too, that the Ready Resolvers started to uncover problems that were systemic in nature, that require further hospital-wide work.
I like this idea. If you work in a hospital, here or elsewhere, do you?
This began as a pilot in June on three units, with 27 volunteers. It was expanded in August to 4 additional units, with 63 volunteers.
Interesting, too, that the Ready Resolvers started to uncover problems that were systemic in nature, that require further hospital-wide work.
I like this idea. If you work in a hospital, here or elsewhere, do you?
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