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Building a Positive Workplace Culture in Healthcare that Lasts

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How to build and sustain a positive workplace culture is explored this week on the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast.

Katie Owens, Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF) co-founder and president is our guest. We are excited to welcome Katie back for this crucial conversation on the ins and outs of creating a positive workplace culture that lasts.

It is far from a secret that there is often a profound difference in the quality of the interactions we have with disengaged team members versus those that are engaged.

“When a leader is disengaged, the research shows their team is also likely to be disengaged,” Katie told us in the opening moments of today’s podcast.

As Katie also discussed in today’s episode, it is never too late to start improving culture, and building a positive workplace culture that lasts really starts with an engaged workforce.

“Engagement is at the core of our ability to leverage and influence all of our balance scorecard outcomes,” Katie said.

As we learn from Katie on today’s podcast, when morale is low it is very difficult to focus on:

  • Advancing the patient experience
  • Advancing a culture of zero harm and patient safety
  • Retaining our best employees
  • Ensuring we are being good stewards of financial resources

“Engaged employees and physicians are much less likely to experience signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue and burnout,” Katie added.

Time Stamps

Looking for the timestamps of how this podcast breaks down? Use the below timestamps to jump to any section:

  • How do things like morale and workplace culture impact the patient experience? (0:44)
  • What are some signs of a positive/healthy workplace culture? (1:53)
  • Is it safe to assume that a positive workplace culture is often related to having an engaged workforce? (3:25)
  • How do issues such as poor communication from leadership impact workplace culture? (4:26)
  • How can a lack of opportunities (i.e., growth and promotions) impact workplace culture? (6:26)
  • How do we go about rebuilding a workplace’s culture if we’ve found the culture to be problematic? (8:00)
  • Do you think it is ever “too late” to improve a workplace’s culture? (9:20)

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About Katie Owens

Katie Owens was raised into a healthcare family. Through her mother, a nurse, Katie saw both the trials and the tribulations of effective healthcare delivery, and its impact on the individuals on the front lines. To Katie, healthcare is deeply personal.

Katie believes that the way we deliver and receive healthcare matters—not just for the patients, but for the caregivers, the providers, and administration, too.

As President of the Healthcare Experience Foundation, Katie is taking bold steps to assure that every organization has access to resources for engaging patients and developing their workforce to achieve results. Katie is an innovator, implementing new ways to deliver the best in patient-centered care.

Katie has previously joined our podcast for many other episodes. You can find her recent shows here:

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Our podcast is dedicated to transforming the health care experience so that every person can receive and deliver the best care.

You can subscribe to our podcast for free on all major podcast platforms and for video of our interviews, you can always check out the Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF) on YouTube. Catch up on all episodes of our podcast by subscribing and following us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music and more.

Meet Katie Owens

Katie believes that the way we deliver and receive healthcare matters—not just for the patients, but for the caregivers, the providers, and administration, too.

As President of the Healthcare Experience Foundation, Katie is taking bold steps to assure that every organization has access to resources for engaging patients and developing their workforce to achieve results. Katie is an innovator, implementing new ways to deliver the best in patient-centered care.

She has influenced hundreds of organizations and thousands of leaders to equip their cultures and instill competencies that create environments of person-centered excellence. Her fundamental tenet is that every person is worthy of an environment where they feel confident in receiving and delivering the best possible care. Known as a leader among leaders, Katie previously served on the HealthStream Leadership Team as Vice President of the Engagement Institute. She also served on the Baptist Health Care (BHC) leadership team in Pensacola, Florida, where she supported the system’s sustained journey to excellence. Katie has led teams of expert coaches dedicated to improving the quality of the patient experience and has been instrumental in creating leading-edge learning assets to support patient experience competencies. She is most proud of having grown Baptist Leadership Group to one of the most respected healthcare coaching practices in the country before being acquired by HealthStream in 2013.

Katie is the lead author of The HCAHPS Imperative for Creating Patient-Centered Excellence and is currently writing her second book about the importance of speaking the patient’s language. She is frequently quoted and has been published in the Huffington Post, Healthcare Financial Management Magazine and Hospitals and Health Networks. She is an energetic, internationally-recognized speaker and has presented for many highly-respected organizations, including American College of Healthcare Executives, Beryl Institute, Cleveland Clinic’s Empathy Summit, Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development, and Healthcare Financial Management Association.

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