Learn best practices in delivering patient services in the two-day Customer Service in Healthcare Training Course.
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Questions, please call 24/7 888-632-2093.
In the Customer Service in Healthcare Training Course, you will learn the importance of one of the most straightforward, least complicated, yet often overlooked aspects of delivering health care…patient satisfaction.
Your attitudes, manners, and facility amenities are as necessary to patients as the treatment processes. From the patient’s perspective, healthcare is just as much a consumer-focused service as other service industries. You will learn how to optimize patients’ experiences just as business operators in retail stores and banks, colleges, and universities, and the travel industry do for their customers.
It is safe to say, most healthcare facilities you deal with fail to deliver superior customer service. No one was born knowing this skill…it is a learned trait. You cannot expect to provide the kind of customer service that wows your patients if you do not train to do so.
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In Module One, you will learn who we are and what we do, who are our customers, what customer service is, the ten rules of great customer service, who are customer service providers, the types of customer service, how the best companies deliver superior customer service, and why customers leave a provider.
In Module Two, you will learn how to establish your attitude, how to be in the know, behavior that turns-off patients, what you can do right away to improve customer service, and courtesy counts.
In Module Three, you will learn communication skills, how to provide excellent service through effective communication, listening skills, seven ways to listen better, asking good questions, verbal communication skills, and the seven c’s of communication.
In Module Four, you will learn how to identify and address patient needs, understand the patient’s situation, stay outside the box, meet the basic needs of healthcare customers, meet the special needs of healthcare customers, go the extra mile, and measure your customer efforts.
In Module Five, you will learn how to maintain happy patients, follow up, address complaints, what patients do not want to hear, the L.E.A.R.N. model for handling complaints, turn difficult patients around, and recovering from a service breakdown.
In Module Six, you will learn in-person customer service, dealing with at-your-desk requests, and the advantages and disadvantages of in-person customer service.
In Module Seven, you will learn about giving customer service over the phone, telephone etiquette, handling complaints by phone, and the advantages and disadvantages of telephone communication.
In Module Eight, you will learn to provide electronic customer service (texts and emails), the advantages and disadvantages of electronic communication, understand netiquette, tips and tricks, and how to eliminate electronic ping pong.
In Module Nine, you will learn how to recover difficult patients, steps to effectively handle difficult patients, de-escalating anger, establish common ground, set your limits, and manage your own emotions.
In Module Ten, you will learn to understand when to escalate, deal with vulgarity, cope with insults, and deal with legal and physical threats.
This course is offered for each level of customer service: