Sandra Myerson MBA, MS, BSN, RN, Chief Patient Experience Officer at Mount Sinai Health System

Sandra Myerson MBA, MS, BSN, RN


Chief Patient Experience Officer
Mount Sinai Health System

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Patient Experience Culture

Thursday, March 12th, 2015


09:00 Keynote: Leadership Accountability And Engagement—An Enterprise Approach

Driving change to achieve organizational goals in a newly-formed system requires effective leadership, multipronged communication pathways, and a culture that embraces transparency, teamwork, and shared accountability. Learn how a large, urban healthcare system formed by the merger of two diverse systems is driving improvements in quality, safety, and patient experience through leadership accountability and engagement.
Learner objectives:
At the end of this session, participants will be able to articulate how one organization
• Created a compelling vision and burning platform to drive organizational change;
• Fosters transparency, teamwork and engagement among executive leaders;
• Utilizes structures, processes, and tools to cultivate accountability.

15:55 Champagne Roundtable Discussions

Potential Topics:

1. Prevention of physician burn-out—increasing provider engagement in PX efforts
Moderator: Peggy Greco, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Director of Physician Coaching Program, Nemours Children’s Clinic

2. Purposeful leadership rounding
Moderator: Sandy Myerson, SVP & Chief Patient Experience Officer, Mount Sinai Health System

3. Using digital rounding to improve visibility and the patient experience
Moderator: Shawn Lemerise, VP, Business Development, CipherHealth

4. Exploring the connection between employees and patient experience outcomes
Moderator: Lynn Ehrmantraut, Senior Vice President, Performance Improvement, Avatar Solutions

5. Strategies for managing patients, patience and perception of wait time
Moderator: Jan Althouse, RDH, MHA, FACHE, LSSBB, Patient Experience Coordinator, Cook Children's Health Care System

6. Establishing a system-wide multi-disciplinary PX steering committee
Moderator: Renee Jones, Director, Patient Experience, The OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center-James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute

7. Health literacy—closing the gap between clinicians and patients
Moderator: Doris Lopez, VP, Patient Experience, Interfaith Medical Center

8. Communication strategies to improve the patient-physician relationship
Moderator: Steven Kaplan, MD, Associate Chief Medical Officer,
Ambulatory Care and Patient Experience, New York-Presbyterian Hospital

9. Essential elements of a successful and sustainable patient experience strategy
Moderator: Rick Evans, Senior Director and Chief Experience Officer, Massachusetts General Hospital

10. Partnering patient experience with quality and safety
Moderator: Jean Ball, Chief Compliance Officer and Director of Patient Experience at North Shore Medical Center

11. Putting the value back on the patient/provider relationship
Moderator: Lance Donkerbrook, COO, Commonwealth ACO