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Integrated Improvements Strengthen Healthcare Customer Experience

Healthcare Industry

Customer Experience & Service Delivery

How a healthcare organization aligned service operations, performance management, and customer experience practices to improve outcomes and drive consistency.

The Challenge

A healthcare organization sought to strengthen its customer experience and service delivery model amid growing operational complexity and rising expectations.

While individual improvement initiatives were underway, performance outcomes were inconsistent across teams and service channels. Leadership needed greater alignment across people, process, and technology to:

  • Improve service consistency and customer satisfaction

  • Increase operational efficiency

  • Strengthen performance visibility across teams

  • Drive adoption of service excellence practices

The organization required a structured approach to integrate initiatives and deliver measurable, sustainable improvement.

The Strategy

Rather than pursuing isolated process changes, Northridge partnered with leadership to design an integrated service improvement roadmap centered on customer experience performance.

The strategy focused on:

  • Aligning customer experience objectives with operational metrics

  • Integrating service delivery processes across teams

  • Standardizing leadership routines and coaching frameworks

  • Strengthening performance management and accountability structures

  • Creating governance to sustain improvement over time

The objective was to connect improvement initiatives into a cohesive, enterprise-level transformation plan.

The Execution

Northridge worked cross-functionally with operational and leadership stakeholders to implement structured service delivery enhancements.

Key activities included:

  • Conducting current state assessments of service workflows and performance management practices

  • Identifying gaps in customer journey alignment and cross-team coordination

  • Establishing standardized performance tracking and reporting frameworks

  • Enhancing leadership coaching and frontline enablement routines

  • Implementing process improvements to reduce inefficiencies and variability

  • Supporting change management and reinforcement planning

Execution emphasized disciplined adoption and measurable operational impact.

The Impact

The integrated improvement approach delivered measurable gains in customer experience performance and operational consistency:

  • +9 point increase in agent comprehension, improving service quality and accuracy (83% to 92%)

  • +7 point increase in issue resolution effectiveness (68% to 75%)

  • +10 point increase in First Contact Resolution (64% to 74%)

  • +18 point increase in customer satisfaction (36% to 54%)

Beyond metric improvement, the engagement positioned the organization to:

  • Improve consistency in service delivery

  • Strengthen leadership coaching effectiveness

  • Increase operational transparency and accountability

  • Establish a sustainable model for continuous improvement

No artificial metrics. Measured operational outcomes aligned to customer experience performance.

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