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Customer Service


Each year the American Alliance of Healthcare Providers (AAHCP) evaluates approximately 400 hospitals for consideration of the “Hospital of Choice” Award. One hundred hospitals each year are recognized for a period of one year and posted on the website choicehospitals.com. Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach was recognized as a Choice Hospital for 2010 for implementing an excellent healthcare program that successfully results in courteous, compassionate and caring service for patients, families and the community.

The Hospital of Choice Award is designed to find America's most customer-friendly hospitals based either on an extensive application process, or by a secret review of a facility's public communication and staff interaction with customers. The application process requires a review of six principal areas of consideration including Standards of Conduct, Performance Management and Improvement, Staff Development and Training, Systems of Communication, Good Citizenship and Educational and Promotional Material available to consumers.


The Customer Relations Department promotes first-class customer service to everyone by meeting with patients to manage satisfaction, providing service excellence training to employees and encouraging collaboration between patients, visitors and health care professionals. Serving as advocates across the medical campus, the Customer Relations Department is committed to enhancing patient and family satisfaction during their hospital stay by actively listening to patients and their families in a sensitive, kind and respectful manner. Opening up this dialogue, allows patients and their families to express their positive experiences or help resolve any issues or concerns they may have.

Patient Ambassadors

The Customer Relations Department has dedicated “patient ambassadors,” for Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach. These patient ambassadors collaborate with all members of the health care team to ensure that the patient’s needs are being met. Patient ambassadors introduce themselves directly to the patient and their families during rounds—when the patient ambassadors meets with the patient to ensure they are satisfied. To speak to a patient ambassador, please call the Customer Service Hotline or ask someone from the health care team to reach them.

Patient Satisfaction

Avatar, our patient satisfaction surveys are sent to patients after their stay at Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach. This ensures patient needs have been met, allowing Miller Children’s Hospital and Long Beach Memorial to evolve in the continuum of care and strive to provide service excellence 100 percent of the time.

Contact Customer Service

Monday – Friday; 7 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Customer Service Hotline: (562) 933-9315

After office hours, please leave a message on the Customer Service Hotline. All calls will be returned the next business day.

Applause Program

The Applause Program is an employee recognition program, where any member of the Miller Children's family can be recognized for extending service excellence. The Applause Card allows patients and their families the opportunity to recognize those valuable employees, physicians and volunteers who provide the extra measure of care at Miller Children's Hospital Long Beach.

Submit an Applause Card today:

The following individual deserves special recognition for extending an extra measure of care.

 

Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach
2801 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach, CA 90806
(562) 933-5437

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MemorialCare Health System is a not-for-profit integrated-delivery system which includes Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach, Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center and Saddleback Memorial Medical Center in Laguna Hills and San Clemente. Our community-based hospitals are located in Southern California in both Los Angeles County and Orange County. Copyright © 1999 - 2009, Memorial Health Services. All rights reserved.