Responding to feedback from patient experience surveys, UnityPoint Health moved from a siloed approach to improving the patient experience at each location to a system-wide strategy that provides a consistent, baseline experience while still permitting each institution the latitude to address its specific needs. During Improving the Patient Experience: Engaging Front-line Staff for a System-Wide Action Plan, a July 27, 2017 webinar, Paige Moore, director, patient experience at UnityPoint Health—Des Moines, will share how her organization switched from a top-down, leadership-driven patient experience improvement approach to one that engages front-line staff to own the process. Click here to register or obtain more information.

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2. Insurance Expansion Improves Access to Care, Health and Survival: Harvard T.H. Chan Analysis
   
   
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12. New Chart: What Are the Top Community/Social Services Linked to Social Health Determinant Screenings?
    
    
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