<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Michael Lee StallardNew Research: Relationships Make Hospitals Great &#8211; Michael Lee Stallard</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.michaelleestallard.com/new-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.michaelleestallard.com</link>
	<description>Helping Leaders Create Cultures that Connect</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:49:19 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en-US</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	
		<item>
		<title>New Research: Relationships Make Hospitals Great</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelleestallard.com/new-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great</link>
		<comments>http://www.michaelleestallard.com/new-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lee Stallard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connection Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E Pluribus Partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employee Engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business speaker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[connection cultures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employee motivation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employee productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fired up or burned out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hospital culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keynote speaker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership and Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership speaker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michael lee stallard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[team building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teambuilding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teamwork]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelleestallard.com/?p=4459</guid>

				<description><![CDATA[<p>The New York Times recently had an article entitled &#8220;What Makes a Hospital Great&#8221; that described new research concluding a hospital&#8217;s culture and the quality of relationships were the most important factors determining patient outcomes. This finding is consistent with our research that concluded leaders must be intentional about developing both &#8220;task excellence&#8221; and &#8220;relationship [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.michaelleestallard.com/new-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great">New Research: Relationships Make Hospitals Great</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.michaelleestallard.com">Michael Lee Stallard</a>.</p>
]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>The New York Times </em>recently had an article entitled &#8220;<a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/what-makes-a-hospital-great/?scp=1&amp;sq=hospital%20culture&amp;st=cse">What Makes a Hospital Great</a>&#8221; that described new research concluding a hospital&#8217;s culture and the quality of relationships were the most important factors determining patient outcomes. This finding is consistent with our research that concluded leaders must be intentional about developing both &#8220;task excellence&#8221; and &#8220;relationship excellence&#8221; in order to achieve sustainable superior performance.  If leaders focus on task alone the eventual failure of relationships will sabotage excellence.</p>
<!-- Start Sociable --><div class="sociable"><div class="sociable_tagline">Be Sociable, Share!</div><ul class='clearfix'><li><a title="Twitter" class="option1_32" style="background-position:-288px -32px" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=New%20Research%3A%20Relationships%20Make%20Hospitals%20Great%20-%20http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelleestallard.com%2Fnew-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great%20  "></a></li><li><a title="Facebook" class="option1_32" style="background-position:-96px 0px" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelleestallard.com%2Fnew-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great&amp;t=New%20Research%3A%20Relationships%20Make%20Hospitals%20Great"></a></li><li><a title="LinkedIn" class="option1_32" style="background-position:-288px 0px" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelleestallard.com%2Fnew-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great&amp;title=New%20Research%3A%20Relationships%20Make%20Hospitals%20Great&amp;source=Michael+Lee+Stallard+Helping+Leaders+Create+Cultures+that+Connect&amp;summary=The%20New%20York%20Times%20recently%20had%20an%20article%20entitled%20%22What%20Makes%20a%20Hospital%20Great%22%20that%20described%20new%20research%20concluding%20a%20hospital%27s%20culture%20and%20the%20quality%20of%20relationships%20were%20the%20most%20important%20factors%20determining%20patient%20outcomes.%20This%20finding%20"></a></li><li><a title="email" class="option1_32" style="background-position:-160px 0px" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to&su=New%20Research%3A%20Relationships%20Make%20Hospitals%20Great&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelleestallard.com%2Fnew-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great&ui=2&tf=1&shva=1"></a></li><li><a class="option1_32" style="cursor:pointer;background-position:-128px 0px" rel="nofollow" title="Add to favorites - doesn't work in Chrome"  onClick="javascript:AddToFavorites();"></a></li><li><a title="StumbleUpon" class="option1_32" style="background-position:-224px -32px" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelleestallard.com%2Fnew-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great&title=New%20Research%3A%20Relationships%20Make%20Hospitals%20Great"></a></li><li><a title="Delicious" class="option1_32" style="background-position:-32px 0px" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://delicious.com/post?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelleestallard.com%2Fnew-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great&amp;title=New%20Research%3A%20Relationships%20Make%20Hospitals%20Great&amp;notes=The%20New%20York%20Times%20recently%20had%20an%20article%20entitled%20%22What%20Makes%20a%20Hospital%20Great%22%20that%20described%20new%20research%20concluding%20a%20hospital%27s%20culture%20and%20the%20quality%20of%20relationships%20were%20the%20most%20important%20factors%20determining%20patient%20outcomes.%20This%20finding%20"></a></li><li><a title="Google Reader" class="option1_32" style="background-position:-224px 0px" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelleestallard.com%2Fnew-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great&amp;title=New%20Research%3A%20Relationships%20Make%20Hospitals%20Great&amp;srcURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelleestallard.com%2Fnew-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great&amp;srcTitle=Michael+Lee+Stallard+Helping+Leaders+Create+Cultures+that+Connect"></a></li><li><a onClick="javascript:var ipinsite='Good%20Vibes.%20Vuible.com',ipinsiteurl='http://vuible.com/';(function(){if(window.ipinit!==undefined){ipinit();}else{document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')).src='http://vuible.com/wp-content/themes/ipinpro/js/ipinit.js';}})();" style="cursor:pointer" rel="nofollow" title="Vuible.com | Share positive messages (images and videos only)"><img style='' src='http://www.michaelleestallard.com/wp-content/plugins/sociable/images/option1/32/vuible.png'></a></li><li><a title="Digg" class="option1_32" style="background-position:-64px 0px" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelleestallard.com%2Fnew-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great&amp;title=New%20Research%3A%20Relationships%20Make%20Hospitals%20Great&amp;bodytext=The%20New%20York%20Times%20recently%20had%20an%20article%20entitled%20%22What%20Makes%20a%20Hospital%20Great%22%20that%20described%20new%20research%20concluding%20a%20hospital%27s%20culture%20and%20the%20quality%20of%20relationships%20were%20the%20most%20important%20factors%20determining%20patient%20outcomes.%20This%20finding%20"></a></li><li><a style="cursor:pointer" rel="nofollow" onMouseOut="fixOnMouseOut(document.getElementById('sociable-post-4459'), event, 'post-4459')" onMouseOver="more(this,'post-4459')"><img style='margin-top:9px' src='http://www.michaelleestallard.com/wp-content/plugins/sociable/images/more.png'></a></li></ul><div onMouseout="fixOnMouseOut(this,event,'post-4459')" id="sociable-post-4459" style="display:none;">   

    <div style="top: auto; left: auto; display: block;" id="sociable">



		<div class="popup">

			<div class="content">

				<ul><li style="heigth:32px;width:32px"><a title="Myspace" class="option1_32" style="background-position:0px -32px" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.myspace.com/Modules/PostTo/Pages/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelleestallard.com%2Fnew-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great&amp;t=New%20Research%3A%20Relationships%20Make%20Hospitals%20Great"></a></li><li style="heigth:32px;width:32px"><a title="Reddit" class="option1_32" style="background-position:-128px -32px" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelleestallard.com%2Fnew-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great&amp;title=New%20Research%3A%20Relationships%20Make%20Hospitals%20Great"></a></li><li style="heigth:32px;width:32px"><a title="Google Bookmarks" class="option1_32" style="background-position:-192px 0px" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&amp;bkmk=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelleestallard.com%2Fnew-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great&amp;title=New%20Research%3A%20Relationships%20Make%20Hospitals%20Great&amp;annotation=The%20New%20York%20Times%20recently%20had%20an%20article%20entitled%20%22What%20Makes%20a%20Hospital%20Great%22%20that%20described%20new%20research%20concluding%20a%20hospital%27s%20culture%20and%20the%20quality%20of%20relationships%20were%20the%20most%20important%20factors%20determining%20patient%20outcomes.%20This%20finding%20"></a></li><li style="heigth:32px;width:32px"><a title="HackerNews" class="option1_32" style="background-position:-256px 0px" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelleestallard.com%2Fnew-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great&amp;t=New%20Research%3A%20Relationships%20Make%20Hospitals%20Great"></a></li><li style="heigth:32px;width:32px"><a title="MSNReporter" class="option1_32" style="background-position:-352px 0px" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://reporter.es.msn.com/?fn=contribute&amp;Title=New%20Research%3A%20Relationships%20Make%20Hospitals%20Great&amp;URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelleestallard.com%2Fnew-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great&amp;cat_id=6&amp;tag_id=31&amp;Remark=The%20New%20York%20Times%20recently%20had%20an%20article%20entitled%20%22What%20Makes%20a%20Hospital%20Great%22%20that%20described%20new%20research%20concluding%20a%20hospital%27s%20culture%20and%20the%20quality%20of%20relationships%20were%20the%20most%20important%20factors%20determining%20patient%20outcomes.%20This%20finding%20"></a></li><li style="heigth:32px;width:32px"><a title="BlinkList" class="option1_32" style="background-position:0px 0px" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&amp;Url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelleestallard.com%2Fnew-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great&amp;Title=New%20Research%3A%20Relationships%20Make%20Hospitals%20Great"></a></li><li style="heigth:32px;width:32px"><a title="Sphinn" class="option1_32" style="background-position:-192px -32px" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://sphinn.com/index.php?c=post&amp;m=submit&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelleestallard.com%2Fnew-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great"></a></li><li style="heigth:32px;width:32px"><a title="Posterous" class="option1_32" style="background-position:-64px -32px" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://posterous.com/share?linkto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelleestallard.com%2Fnew-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great&amp;title=New%20Research%3A%20Relationships%20Make%20Hospitals%20Great&amp;selection=The%20New%20York%20Times%20recently%20had%20an%20article%20entitled%20%22What%20Makes%20a%20Hospital%20Great%22%20that%20described%20new%20research%20concluding%20a%20hospital%27s%20culture%20and%20the%20quality%20of%20relationships%20were%20the%20most%20important%20factors%20determining%20patient%20outcomes.%20This%20finding%20"></a></li><li style="heigth:32px;width:32px"><a title="Tumblr" class="option1_32" style="background-position:-256px -32px" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.tumblr.com/share?v=3&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelleestallard.com%2Fnew-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great&amp;t=New%20Research%3A%20Relationships%20Make%20Hospitals%20Great&amp;s=The%20New%20York%20Times%20recently%20had%20an%20article%20entitled%20%22What%20Makes%20a%20Hospital%20Great%22%20that%20described%20new%20research%20concluding%20a%20hospital%27s%20culture%20and%20the%20quality%20of%20relationships%20were%20the%20most%20important%20factors%20determining%20patient%20outcomes.%20This%20finding%20"></a></li></ul>			

			</div>        

		  <a style="cursor:pointer" onclick="hide_sociable('post-4459',true)" class="close">

		  <img onclick="hide_sociable('post-4459',true)" title="close" src="http://www.michaelleestallard.com/wp-content/plugins/sociable/images/closelabel.png">

		  </a>

		</div>

	</div> 

  </div></div><div class='sociable' style='float:none'><ul class='clearfix'></ul></div><!-- End Sociable --><p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.michaelleestallard.com/new-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great">New Research: Relationships Make Hospitals Great</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.michaelleestallard.com">Michael Lee Stallard</a>.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			

		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.michaelleestallard.com/new-research-relationships-make-hospitals-great/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
					</item>
	</channel>
</rss>