Want satisfied patients? Keep nurses happy.

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Ever since Medicare started using patient satisfaction surveys in 2012 to calculate hospital reimbursements, the healthcare system has been looking to the hospitality industry to learn how to make patients enjoy their hospital stay. Hotels do have the answer, but hospitals are looking in all the wrong places.

What hospitals are doing wrong

The concept behind Medicare’s HCAHPS survey — a short questionnaire asking …

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