Award Semiotics
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Press Ganey is an outfit that does…uh, something having to do with… um, making hospital administrators feel good about themselves, maybe? Their mission statement:
For more than 20 years, Press Ganey has led the health care industry with a clear mission based on partnership, results, solutions, support, and care.
In other words, their mission statement is:
We have a mission statement.
One of the things they do is to give doctors awards based on patient satisfaction surveys. It seems that doctors are properly skeptical about this methodology.
But that’s not what I want to talk about.
Here’s the award:
Why would anyone want a health care award that looks like this:
