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    What can we learn from Mickey Mouse?

    April 11th, 2005

    This past March, I made it to the ACHE Congress, where they awarded Fred Lee with the 2004 Book of the Year Award, for If Disney Ran Your Hospital

    Well, the book was sold out at the conference, but I finally bought a copy from the publisher. Not only has Mr. Lee written a great book, he has chosen a fantastic topic. We need more books and resources like this - we especially need to learn from outside of our industry. We should learn about supply chain from Wal-Mart, new product design from Apple, and customer delight from Disney.

    Fred Lee calls managing today's hospital "the hardest management job in the world." In this book he focuses particularly on "those approaches that bring out the best behaviors in workers and provide the best emotional experience for patients."

    And for the record, I want to state that this was one of the best business books I’ve ever read. I probably had 3 or 4 mini "A-ha’s" in each of the 10 chapters, so I definitely would recommend you purchasing a copy for yourself. Some of the concepts will definitely challenge your current thinking. After you’re done, I bet you’ll think of several people in your organization to pass it along to.

    I wanted to share with you the eight biggest “A-ha’s” that I took away. I’ll dig deeper into each in the coming days.

    Here are the 8 big impact ideas from "If Disney Ran Your Hospital"

    1. Perceptions > Reality
    2. Courtesy > Efficiency
    3. Patient Loyalty > Patient Satisfaction
    4. Experience > Service > Product
    5. Intrinsic Motivation > Extrinsic Motivation
    6. Habit > Imagination > Willpower > Compliance
    7. Dissatisfaction > Complacency
    8. Doing > Knowing

    Comments, Pingbacks:

    Comment from: Martijn Hulst [Visitor] · http://www.martijnhulst.nl/weblog/
    Indeed we can learn from Disney!

    You wrote some great articles about this great book. On my own weblog I've published some thoughts about what I've read here.

    Thanks for giving a inside look in the book of Fred Lee.
    Permalink 07/27/05 @ 05:54
    Comment from: Dave [Visitor]
    The idea that Disney has anything to teach us about how to run hosptials is a stretch, at best, and a more likely a counterproductive fantasy. A hospital is not a luxury resort, an operating room is not a ride, a surgeon is not a cute tour guide in a uniform. Nobody dies if they can't afford to go to Disney World. There is a lot that can be improved in our hospitals and our healthcare system, but I hope we can find better role models than the Walt Disney Corporation.
    Permalink 04/06/06 @ 22:01
    Comment from: Norman [Visitor]
    One thing Disney and hospitals DO have in common: overcharging for EVERYTHING!
    Permalink 06/22/06 @ 05:31
    Comment from: Ed [Visitor]
    I think what people need to understand is that no one is looking to run a hospital like an amusement park. If you have never been to Disney to see their Customer Service, then you cannot comment. I would love to see Customer Service in hospital's run like Disney would portray. These are the hospital's customers and they generate the revenue. We need to taker a hard look at this area.
    Permalink 06/28/06 @ 14:19
    Comment from: shannon [Visitor]
    I work in a hospital and I really feel that all hospital have something in comman with Disney Land. I went to a Fred Lee seminar and I really enjoyed it, he explained how Disney Land and a hospital have similar things, you have to have Customer Service in both area's. Cause if you are a patient and you are coming in to pay a bill, I would hope that you would want the person taking your money have good Customer Service skills and to have courtesy and compassion for you. Also when the patient was here for the stay and the nurse and the doctors they also have to have good Customer Service skills, so if you where at Disney Land the employees their have to also be courtesy and friendly, cause if not then you will probably not want to visit either one again.
    Thanks,
    shannon
    Permalink 07/31/06 @ 17:52
    Comment from: Dr. Deb [Visitor] · http://drdeborahserani.blogspot.com/
    What a brilliant idea for a book. I'm going to purchase it.
    Permalink 08/12/06 @ 10:04
    Comment from: Basia [Visitor]
    People choose to go to Disney for vacation and fun. Patients ususally do not go to the hospital for either of the above reasons. There in lies the inherent major difference .
    Permalink 08/15/06 @ 14:26
    Comment from: Karen [Visitor] · http://www.mobileleasing.com
    Even if your a not for profit hospital, your hospital is still a business. The hospital has to make money in order to stay in business. If you don't like the service at your local coffee shop, you'd go somewhere else wouldn't you? If there are several hospitals in your area, you need to draw your customers (guests) from the area. A good experience will bring them back, if your competitors aren't doing the job, you need to do it better.
    Permalink 08/15/06 @ 16:00
    Comment from: Howard [Visitor]
    Whether it's Disneyland or some major hospital, superior customer service skills apply and learning to build rapports with our patients should be a # 1 priority. I like the saying, "If you're not smiling....You're not doing it right."
    Permalink 08/15/06 @ 16:29
    Comment from: Nan, NP [Visitor]
    It appears that we can continue to learn from the Mouse!
    No, people do not come to hospitals anticipating "fun", as they do at Disney. However, they can have a positive, memorable experience, no matter what brought them in to us. As we each expect excellant customer service no matter where we go, so too should they expect and recieve the same from us.
    As Health Care Providers, there is a tendancy to think that our time is somehow more important than thiers, thus justifying curtness, if not downright rudeness, in our interactions with our patients and thier families. It is imperative for each of us to hold in our minds the fact that if it were not for our patients, we would have no reason to be what we are. As well we should be aware of the honor they do us, trusting us with what is thier most precious possesion: thier health, sometimes thier very lives.
    Ad Disney is aware, the public has choice. We need to make them want to select us.
    Permalink 08/15/06 @ 18:03
    Comment from: Lynda Alphin [Visitor]
    Compare:
    Hospital: Long waits, uniformed staff, Things costing much more than they should, Bad food, security personnel, Hope that the ride your on doesn't kill you.

    Disney: Same as above.
    Permalink 08/16/06 @ 10:17
    Comment from: Jane RN, MS [Visitor]
    Disney does customer service like nobody else, having experienced it myself in '04. Our comfort was their priority. Nothing seemed beyond consideration, and each employee made us feel welcome. "Disney Hospital" patients would feel safe, appreciated, respected, and more at ease. They would rest better, eat better, heal faster, perhaps even leave sooner. How much better things would be if we truly treated them as our guests rather than as interruptions, or a room number needing meds. I've seen it too often. Are we too proud to provide this level of service?
    Permalink 08/16/06 @ 12:52
    Comment from: hospitaltony [Member]
    I blogged earlier about a team of physicians going to a Toyota plant to obtain lessons for hospitals. After leaving the plant, one physician said, "they treat their cars better than we treat our patients."
    Permalink 08/16/06 @ 12:55
    Comment from: Cindy [Visitor]
    I have read this book along with all of the other department directors in our hospital. The CEO of my hospital had already read it along with the other affiliate CEOs in our hospital system. We sat down together after reading the book and discussed how our patients need to be related to as customers. It was very interesting to see how our hospital business is so musch like Disney World in the customer service area. We must make our patients feel like we are there for them instead of the bucks.
    Permalink 08/16/06 @ 19:50
    Comment from: Betty RN [Visitor]
    I work in a hospital and I would just like to see my place of work as clean as Disneyworld.
    Permalink 08/17/06 @ 16:38
    Comment from: Patti Worley [Visitor]
    I haven't read the book but intend to after reading the comments. As an RN of 30 years who does not recommend nursing as a profession, I wonder, does the book address how Disney treats and motivates their employees? What is their turnover rate, how much time and effort go into training them? I grew up in So. Cal and at the time, a job at Disneyland was one of the best to be found for a young person.
    It's great to talk about customer service, but that is just "cosmetics" if you are not taking care of the people who are providing the service, especially in an organization as inherently stressful as a hospital.
    Permalink 08/17/06 @ 17:16
    Comment from: Debra [Visitor]
    In another life and for over ten years, I was a highly trained and very highly regarded Hotel Guest Service Manager (GSM) and eventual General Manager for a major(hospital-ity) chain.
    I worked 12-16 hours a day and was on the job six to seven days a week. During one two year stent, I worked an entire year, without a day off.
    After five years of this grueling schedule, I suffered what is too commonly diagnosed as "burn out".
    Twenty years later and after my immune suppressed husband spent six months of this year hospitalized, due to complications subsequent to hospital aquired infections, I observed, in five separate hospitals, the reality of my my former work day schedule and customer service nightmares had spilled over into the medical field.
    I am certain the former RN, who posted above me,could fill a best selling horror novel about the working conditions for hospital employees.
    I am also certain, my own book about the working conditions and the lack of customer service training I recently observed and my husband experienced first hand, would run a close race for a second best seller.
    John Nesbitt wrote in his book, Megatrends, "whatever is going on locally, is going on nationally". If his and my own observations are true, our nation's hospitals, when viewed as a service industry with failing life threatening implications,are in very serious trouble.
    Regarding the "Disney" and "fantasy" book, over fifteen years ago and after my own hospital stay, I wrote a thoughtful letter to a local hospital director regarding the very same service principals discussed by the author of the book and owner of this blog.
    Back then, my sincere offerings to write a "train the trainer" course book and my suggestions for hospital (service) improvements), apparently fell on deaf ears.
    Both of my letters, my complaint letter and my letter offering to design a professional and hopital specfic basic customer service training course was completely ignored.
    I am now a professional artist and a novice political activist.
    Too often favorite written historical generalizations about artitic qualities are completely ignored in the business world.
    Artists are, whether by nature or by nurture, intuitive, genrally spoken of as being "ahead of their time" or "working against the grain" and they "tend to color outside the lines". After a lifetime of my thoughts, suggestions and ideas about employee/employer and customer relationships and serivce improvements being largely ignored by the corporate business community, I pleaded guilty to all the above and eventually recognized my "talents" belonged elsewhere.
    Today, after reading this blog and the above posts, and for a fleeting moment, I wondered if I and other "artistic personality types" had become more the work place activist types and perhaps, less escapists, we could have served our nation's "broken healthcare system" and corporate world better.
    My second thought reminded me of an English translation of an ancient chinese symbol. "Chaos-Where brilliant drams are born, before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish to the crowd".
    The Disney Book may, at first glance, appear as a foolish bandaid to an ailing industry for far too many " expert "industry analysts", "human resource directors" or "corporate mogols" or line level employees.
    To this artist and former service industry professional, it is part of the solution and brilliant!
    DK, Artist



    Permalink 08/19/06 @ 10:14
    Comment from: Bonnie, RPh, MBA [Visitor]
    Having read the comments, but not the book, I am certain that those people with negative comments do not work in a health care setting. It is delightful to hear that some healthcare organizations are finally realizing one of the most basic tenets of business...if your employees are happy, they will give great customer service; but if they're not, watch out! You can take basic business models and apply them to any other business...you just have to be open to see it. In my MBA program, most of the instructors were from manufacturing and were amazed that I could translate the concepts into health care. Business is business, whether it's Disney or your local hospital. We just need Administration to wake up!
    Permalink 08/21/06 @ 08:45
    Comment from: ANON [Visitor]
    How many of Disney's "customers" do not pay for the "experience" they recieve? How many of Disney's "customer's" sue at the end of their stay, not necessarily because the Mouse did something wrong, but because the "customer" didn't like the outcome. As for some of what I've read here about "customers" paying for their "experience"; patients in hospitals don't pay for their healthcare, their insurance companies do. It's often not enough to cover all that they recieve, hence the "overcharging" on the items where cost can be recouped. In order to maximize the amount of mnoney insurance does, eventually, payout; staff is cut to the bare bones to save costs. I wonder if employees at the magic kingdom would be able to deliver such a wonderful "experience" if they were short staffed, overworked, in fear of being sued if someone doesn't like their ride on the Matterhorn, and regulated out the you-know-what by the federal government. In the hospital setting we are continually challenged to serve hamburger steak and make the patient belive it is filet mignon.
    Permalink 08/23/06 @ 20:16
    Comment from: Gregory M. Kirkwood [Visitor]
    I would hope that the people who posted negative comments have actually read the book. It's principles about customer service organizations would be applicable anywhere. Fred Lee's book should be required reading for any Health Services Administration graduate program. Students and professors alike will gain from the experience. I am sure you will enjoy the ride.
    Permalink 09/13/06 @ 17:26
    Comment from: Alcohol Rehab [Visitor] · http://cirquelodge.com
    I'm also impressed by Fred Lee's imagination and his book is a very good one. His satire and ironic style deserves a lot of appreciation.
    Permalink 10/13/06 @ 02:44
    Comment from: Lisa [Visitor] · http://www.hosptialimpact.org

    About 10 years ago, I worked at an emergency department in an inner city. The Disney organization was paid to come to our facility to "teach" customer care. Needless to say I thought this was ridiculous, how do you compare an emergency dept with Disney World? There is no comparison. The E.R. is a place where emotions run high, life or death situations are a constant and patience by the patients is worn thin, not to mention the many, many people who use the E.R. as their doctor's office. What is the worst thing that can happen at Disney? Can it at all compare to death of a loved one? The Disney people who were recruited to come to our facility could barely speak to one another, never mind our patient clientele, they were in a word, shocked by what they had encountered. The staff at the ER had already been through sensitivity training, and are some of the most caring, compassionate, empathetic people I had the pleasure to work with, not to mention, not easily shocked. People do not need a book or a Disney staff to teach customer care, what they need is to look at how they'd like to be treated, "do onto others as you would yourself."
    Permalink 10/23/06 @ 16:27
    Comment from: Clint [Visitor]
    I have read the book- something that I think many comment leavers have not. It does not tell you to run your hospital like a resort, it is telling you to look at their business model and their measure of success. Sure, a hospital isnt a resort, a vacation, a getaway, but it is a customer service industry...like it or not.
    We need customers, we need them to be satisfied and to have the best hospital experience possible. How can we do this amid staffing shortages, malpractice suits, charge backs, writeoffs, and the like? By looking at a different business model, we can be motivated to chnge and to be more productive...THAT is what this book is about. For all you naysayers out there...I'm sorry that organizational inertia has proven fatal to your attitude. For all the rest, this book is awesome and motivating. A must read for ANY hospital employee.
    Permalink 11/03/06 @ 12:03
    Comment from: Kelly, RN, BSN [Visitor]
    I read this book for one of my graduate courses. This book is an excellent book and should be read by all leaders in the hospital industry. Some hospital employees have forgotten what we are there for: TO PROVIDE COMPASSIONATE CARE TO THE PATIENT, to touch the lives of others. A quote by Adam Gordon-"Life is mostly froth and bubble, two things stand like stone, kindness in another's trouble, courage in your own! This book is GREAT!
    Permalink 11/10/06 @ 00:55
    Comment from: Cestmoiperidot [Visitor] · http://www.thewatershed.com/
    Such a delightful title. Worth browsing at the local Barnes and Noble.
    Permalink 12/21/06 @ 16:15
    Comment from: quade [Visitor]
    Having worked at Disney for 29 years, lemme just say that the LAST thing you'd want a medical facility to be run like is a Disney theme park.

    For example;

    1. Perceptions > Reality

    Perceptions are greater than Reality? Really? Isn't that what they call in the medical profession the Placebo Effect?
    Permalink 01/22/07 @ 03:06
    Comment from: beth [Visitor]
    We especially appreciated Fred Lee's explanation of the 90% patient satisfaction survey results. Our hospital has always been in the 90% range on patient satisfaction surveys and we feel Mr. Lee's book helped us tweak our current service objectives. We've incorporated some of his thoughts into the customer service portion of our new hire orientation that educates our employees, from the start, on the quality of customer service we expect, their role and how hospital administration will support their decisions.
    Permalink 02/12/07 @ 12:33
    Comment from: Connie Nickelson, MD Hospitalist [Visitor]
    It's been a year now since I attended this lecture given by Fred Lee. He has had the most positive impact in my career, even above my medical education because without these principles my practice of medicine falls short. The healing power is not in the pill. When I am tired and overworked and short tempered I still hear his words and press on with quality and compassion.
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    Comment from: Chris [Visitor]
    As an employee of the publisher of Mr. Lee's book, I frequently hear comments from people who have either read it, or are very exited to give it a shot. The stories are too many to list here but suffice it to say that no one has ever asked for a refund. It is personally gratifying for me to work for a business that has a product that is making a positive difference in the lives of so many. I occasionally have the opportunity to speak with Mr. Lee and the passion and dedication for the work he is doing in healthcare is always what I take away from every conversation.
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    Permalink 04/24/07 @ 22:42
    Comment from: Thomas J Pingitore [Visitor]
    I must say it was so exciting to read a book that truly embraces the Customer as being #1 and in the case of the almighty healthcare system the patient being #1. When I read the book I imagined myself as the patient and would I look for during my stay. Applying these principles it would clearly be a pleasant experience for me overall if they were followed through with. One part imparticular that rang in my ears was the Lack of Professional Appearance and Inconsistency in Uniform that is promblematic in healthcare organizations today; the free mentality of the 1990's and the dot commers needs to go away as mentioned in the book and get back to a Nurse in White, A Tech in Navy, An MA in Royal and a Unit Secretary not looking at all clinical so there not confused as a nurse by families in need of getting there clinical questions answered. Registration people should look more like a Hotel in Suiting if they are preaching Disney and your Food should emulate a resturant/cafe but be functional to there job role. Housekeeping Men and Women should be the same and not wear clinical apparel because patients will think they are caregivers and ask the wrong questions creating confusion. Trust, First Impressions, A Sense of Teamwork, and Professional Appearance can all be achieved by Mr Fred Lee's concepts on page 168-171 of a Standardized Dress Code with NO CASUAL FRIDAY'S. The Patient Comes first 7 days a week not 6 and it should always be seen and percieved as a Team Oriented Facility just like Disney. In a day when the elderly will be at an all time high and they recognize color what better way to introduce teamwork then giving the seniors what they want; A Nurse Back! Perception is Reality and Patient Satisfaction Scores will reap the benefits of increase with a Consistent Image Program. Mr Lee, Thank you again for reminding us how important perception, image, and professional appearance really are. Amazing Mr Lee, just truly amazing!!! My best... Thomas J Pingitore Regional Sales Rep Cintas Healthcare NJ
    Permalink 02/22/08 @ 01:25
    Comment from: RN15years,ER,med/surg/PACU [Visitor]
    I think the book makes a lot of valid points. It is DEFINETELY worth reading. Most of what it says is true, but the critisism come from what it leaves out-- some major issues.

    An example involves employee satisfaction, which the book flat out states is overrated. A great employee is never satified, and always tries to improve, other than that satifaction should come from doing a great job. OK. What it does not take into account is that Disney can pretty much train anyone for any job, but hospitals have to have actual registered nurses, respiratory and phsical therapists, speech and occupational therapists, MDs of varying specialties, etc. All of these employees are NOT cast members playing a doctor, or nurse, or therapist, they must have actual licenses. Due to shortages, you cannot always just go get another one when the one you have does not conform to your ideals. Actual firings are pretty much reserved for things like verbal or other abuse, med theft, not showing up for work, etc.

    The book also describes "acting" your part, and tries, somewhat unsuccessfully, to suggest acting when interacting with patients does not mean a nurse or caregiver is insincere or unauthentic. No matter how Lee phrased it, I couldn't quite buy it.

    Another issue not dealt with is the fact that satifying the patient is not ethical, or in their best interest. Over the course of my career, I have come in contact with many drug addicts wanting narcotics, some quite suspiciously for diversionary tactics (ie selling to third party) They are not satified customers when we say "no".

    Also not addressed are the patients that make so many demands that they take away from others needing care. Sometimes you can address the root cause of their actions (such as anxiety), sometimes you can't. Sometimes, you have to gently set limits. Disney may simply hire more employees, as the majority of people entering the park are paying guests, but when you have a lot of people with no insurance, or the very poorly reimburing medicaid, you can't just hire more people. The people available simply have to do as much as they can for as many people they can. The stress of this can make it difficult to keep "acting" the part of the ER RN who loves taking care of patients, even when she truely is an ER RN who loves taking care of patients.

    I have read a lot of great reviews on this book. They are all true it IS a great book. But I do feel that many of the biggest challenges of my career are not well represented.

    Permalink 03/25/08 @ 15:53
    Comment from: Dena Jones [Visitor]
    Give me a break with the hospitals run like Disney crap. This is obviously someone who has not seen a patient's butt, dealt first hand with unreasonable and bonoxious family members interfereing with life saving care and whose reality is based behind a desk far far away from the bedside.
    Permalink 05/06/08 @ 05:47
    Comment from: 20 yr. RN - (Familiar with butts and stressed family) [Visitor]
    Yes, if I were your boss I would be happy to give you a break until you understood what is being discussed here. It's not about you and what you have to deal with. It is about compassion for others and what they are having to deal with, having a heartfelt desire to provide the best,
    "CARE," possible to meet their, and yes, their family members needs. It's about having patients/clients and their families leave the hospital knowing their needs where met in an exceptionally professional and caring manner whether the client leaves the hospital by car or by hearse. The intent is not to create an amusement park in a hospital. It is about being patient/client centered in ones thinking rather than being task centered. Perhaps healthcare is not your bag.
    Permalink 05/21/08 @ 06:33
    Comment from: AJ [Visitor] · http://www.gatehouseacademy.com
    While those from the health care field seem bitter, I think it is high time this book be published.
    Permalink 06/11/08 @ 19:20
    Comment from: Peter james [Visitor] · http://www.nepalmagic.com/
    Mickey mouse is a star caracter in cartoons world and micky mouse is no need to any identity and also this is a most viewed character than any other cartoon character.Mickey mouse was created in 1928 by Walt Disney.Mickey mouse is a comic anilmal cartoon character.Mickey mouse is loved by whole world and i am also a part of this world.
    Permalink 07/04/08 @ 01:58
    Comment from: melarkode narasimhan [Visitor]
    It would be nice to see readers reflect an open mind and explore possibilities.We all have our experiences,good and bad ,and tend to become victims of the same.I am sure in these DIsney ideas as well as any other there are opportunities to take 'customer service' to new levels.It is not so much about the business numbers as about greater pateint and service provider satisfaction.melarkode
    Permalink 12/01/08 @ 23:33
    Comment from: Richard [Visitor]
    It's amazing to me how many people who post their thoughts about the Fred Lee "Disney" book - and haven't even read it! If you haven't read it, all I can say is "don't knock it until you've tried it." What Mr. Lee has to say in this book is truly revolutionary to the world of health care - those that learn to integrate this type of thinking into their corporate culture will surely reap the benefits.
    Permalink 02/17/09 @ 07:48
    Comment from: Randy Spelling [Visitor] · http://www.randyspelling.com/
    This book sounds fantastic- I don't work in hospital management and I may want to read it! Sound like a message that anyone in any field can appreciate in one way or another.
    Permalink 03/02/09 @ 16:07
    Comment from: KK [Visitor]
    Many of these negative comments do not surprise me. Being an RN in the healthcare arena for 18 years now just reinforces that those running hospitals just do not get it, it should be run like the business it is & excellent customer service is the key to any successful business.
    Seems like common sense to me.
    Permalink 03/19/09 @ 23:24
    Comment from: forex trading system [Visitor] · http://www.wallstreetforex.eu
    We need more books and resources like this - we especially need to learn from outside of our industry. We should learn about supply chain from Wal-Mart, new product design from Apple, and customer delight from Disney.The hospital has to make money in order to stay in business. If you don't like the service at your local coffee shop, you'd go somewhere else wouldn't you? If there are several hospitals in your area, you need to draw your customers from the area.

    Permalink 05/07/09 @ 04:03
    Comment from: Debra [Visitor]
    Thanks alot for the information. Really appreciate it. I've Subscribed to your RSS feed for Further updated.

    I have read the book- something that I think many comment leavers have not. It does not tell you to run your hospital like a resort, it is telling you to look at their business model and their measure of success.

    Best Regards,
    Debra@Panic Away
    Permalink 05/21/09 @ 14:10
    Comment from: wanted [Visitor]
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    Permalink 06/24/09 @ 02:45
    The Disney approach to customer service is first rate. Some people associate Mickey Mouse with being juvenile. That's unfortunate because the structure of the Disney organization's values and behaviors toward customers that grow out of those values have made Disney great. We put out a book called Patients Plus that focuses on improving front-line customer service skills in hospitals. It fits nicely with the high-level strategic stuff. Several institutions have bought it from us to help align behaviors with values. For those of you in the industry, it might be an interesting read.
    Permalink 07/22/09 @ 01:59
    Comment from: Dr. Scott Winkler [Visitor] · http://antisepticair.com
    Disney uses photo catalytic oxidation technology for infection prevention on all of their cruise liners and many of their hotels. Any of their facilities that have this technology have not had another out break of Norovirus. The hospitals should be using this technology but their risk management blocks it's install for fear of law suits.
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    Permalink 09/10/09 @ 14:55
    Comment from: alyyy [Visitor]
    not exactly however the desgin element of the matter is consider as long as the character like it goes with famous logo companies an the symbiols too.
    Permalink 09/30/09 @ 01:25
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    Permalink 10/07/09 @ 14:12
    Comment from: Kimberly [Visitor]
    I have worked in the health care arena for a period spanning three decades, and far too many time we use the word "busy" to justify poor customer service. It goes back to not what you say but how you say it...patients will always say it's the little things that matter, so enough of how "busy"we are and think that the person lying in the bed is your loved one...good job Mr Lee!!!
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