Laura Cooley | NGPX

Laura Cooley

Laura Cooley

Editor-in-Chief Journal of Patient Experience

Designing Experience That Drives Measurable Outcomes

2:20 PM PANEL: Consistency at Scale: Creating Reliable Ambulatory Experience Across Hundreds of Locations

As health systems expand across hundreds of ambulatory sites, delivering a consistently excellent patient experience becomes both more critical and more complex. This panel explores how leading organizations are reducing unwarranted variation while preserving compassion, local context, and clinician engagement across ambulatory networks. Hear how standardized workflows, clear experience expectations, and frontline enablement help teams deliver reliable, high‑quality care at scale. Panelists will share practical approaches for balancing standardization and flexibility, aligning leaders and clinicians around shared behaviors, and ensuring patients receive a seamless experience, no matter where they enter the system. 

3:20 PM Panel: Language Access as Safety: Designing Interpreter Services that Improve Outcomes

Language barriers aren't just a patient experience challenge; they're a patient safety risk that can lead to preventable harm, inequitable outcomes, and eroded trust. This panel reframes language access as a core safety strategy and explores how high‑performing organizations design interpreter services that are dependable in the moments that matter most: the ED, inpatient care, informed consent, procedures, and discharge. Panelists will share practical, scalable approaches to make language support easy to request, quick to deploy, consistent across settings, and embedded in clinical workflow not treated as an add‑on. Learn how teams are improving utilization, reducing delays and workarounds, strengthening understanding at key decision points, and measuring impact through quality, safety, and equity lenses. Attendees will leave with actionable design principles and operational tactics to hardwire language access as a standard of care and a driver of better outcomes. 

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