Blogs
Archive: February 2012
Posted February 27, 2012
by Sara Baker Stokes, Ph.D., Director, Research Services
As a researcher, I have focused on healthcare employee engagement for more than a decade. Now, I've reached the age where I'm also gaining more personal experiences about healthcare. Most of these experiences are through my children and parents being in hospitals all hours of the day and night.
Recently, Anna Vordermark commented in a blog post about her healthcare experience from a consumer perspective. I also had a recent hospital experience,...
Posted February 16, 2012
by Barbara Reilly, SVP, Science and Research
As this is my first blog for Morehead, I will take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Barbara Reilly, and I am the senior vice president of Science and Research. I spend a fair amount of time harnessing the power stored in our data and looking at data in different ways. Sometimes I use multivariate statistical models that are powerful beyond measure: regression, factor analysis, cluster analysis, and the like. At other times, it's back to the...
Posted February 13, 2012
by Rod Wilkes, SVP, Client Solutions
Each January, we look at our previous year's normative database to see how it has changed. One difference we found when reviewing our 2011 data was the increased importance of a hospital's community image in driving employee engagement. In 2011, respect in the community was the second most critical driver of engagement, behind only employees' perceptions of patient safety and quality care. At first, the emergence of this item was a surprise to me. After all,...
Posted February 7, 2012
by Anna Vordermark, Marketing Manager
Thursday night, I had the pleasure of joining 150 healthcare professionals to hear a panel of physician and nursing executives discuss the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) concept. These leaders are actively involved in clinical excellence, quality improvement, and state-run initiatives to implement team-based care in physician practices and health systems across the country and share an interesting perspective on the role of engagement in the PCMH....
