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Build a Better Patient Experience. Strengthen Your Hospital from the Inside Out.

Patient experience doesn’t improve through good intentions. It improves when hospitals have engaged leaders, empowered caregivers, clear service standards, and practical systems that support continuous improvement. Hospital Academy™ helps you build a patient experience that lasts

A Proven System for Sustainable Patient Experience Improvement

Hospital Academy™ is a six-month guided implementation program that gives hospitals the tools, education, and coaching to build a stronger patient experience—one sustainable step at a time.

Build Leadership Accountability
Strengthen Caregiver Engagement
Improve Patient Experience
Enhance Service Recovery
Increase Employee Engagement
Improve HCAHPS Performance

What the Journey Looks Like

Hospital Academy™ is supported by one-on-one coaching sessions with your CLS Executive Coach, practical implementation tools, on-demand leadership education, and real-time feedback designed to help your organization create lasting patient experience improvement.

Launch & Planning

Create your implementation plan, establish your Service Excellence Council, and identify your highest priorities.

Build Your Foundation

Develop your service standards, feedback strategy, and implementation plan using the Hospital Academy™ Workbook.

Learn & Implement

Apply on-demand leadership education, implementation tools, and CareSay™ feedback to strengthen the patient experience.

Measure & Sustain

Review progress, refine priorities, and build a plan for long-term success.

A Signature Hospital Academy Experience:
The Employee HCAHPS Alignment Exercise™

One of the most valuable experiences in Hospital Academy™ is The Employee HACHPS Alignment Exercise which helps your organization view the patient experience from a new perspective.

This guided exercise challenges assumptions, sparks meaningful leadership discussion, and reveals opportunities that may otherwise go unnoticed.

By exploring the patient experience together, leaders and caregivers gain greater alignment, strengthen HCAHPS understanding, and establish clear priorities for improvement.

Build organization-wide HCAHPS awareness
Identify patient experience blind spots
Align leadership priorities

Built for Your Leadership Team

Improving the patient experience requires leaders from across the organization working toward a common vision. Hospital Academy™ is designed for a focused implementation team that evaluates opportunities, sets priorities, and leads improvement efforts throughout the hospital.

Recommended participants include:
  • Executive Sponsor
  • Nursing Leadership
  • Department Leaders
  • Frontline Caregivers
  • Provider Champion
  • Quality or Patient Experience Leader
  • Education or Staff Development
  • Implementation Coordinator

Estimated Time Commitment: Approximately 1–2 hours per week over six months.

Ready to Build a Better Patient Experience?

Hospital Academy™ provides the framework to help your organization move forward with confidence.