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Candidate Balik cites business and environmental experience
SHARE Hermosa Beach city council candidate Randy Balik with wife Noelle, sons Braden, and Andrew and dog Brooklyn. Photo by Barbara Balik
Hermosa Beach city council candidate Randy Balik with wife Noelle, sons Braden, and Andrew and dog Brooklyn. Photo by Barbara Balik
by Dan Blackburn
It was time to “give back” to his community, Randy Balik said. So he became one of five candidates for an open seat on Hermosa Beach’s city council.
Now, just weeks before the May 11, mail-in election, the long-time city resident and environmental scientist is taking some heat unwarranted and misunderstood, he asserts for one of his professional associations.
By Workhuman
What makes hospital employees – especially clinicians – happy at work and engaged in their jobs? The root causes of employee satisfaction, or its absence, are diverse. But, independent of each institution’s specific problems, sound organizational processes to self-evaluate the work environment and effect change can improve employee satisfaction, and therefore patient satisfaction and fiscal health.
It’s not merely an article of faith that satisfied hospital employees make for a better patient experience. “There are a couple of decades of evidence that happier hospital employees raise HCAHPS scores and improve patient safety and outcome quality,” says Barbara Balik, RN, EdD, senior faculty at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.