Patient Experience

Patient & Family Engagement

Patient and Family Advisory Councils (PFACs)

What is a PFAC?

  • PFACs integrate, elevate, and promote the patient and family voice in the development of programs, services, and initiatives.
  • PFACs bring together patients, family members, clinicians, and staff to enhance experiences.
  • PFAC members participate in hospital committees and provide feedback in many additional ways.
  • 7 active PFACs across Mass General
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Refer a patient/family member to the General PFAC!

The General Patient and Family Advisory Council (PFAC) welcomes members with a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives. The General PFAC is composed of Mass General patients and family members who help shape hospital services, programs and initiatives by providing the patient and family perspective. Members participate in monthly meetings and become involved in committees and task forces across the organization.  If you know of any patient or family members who might be a fitting candidate to lend their expert voice to enhancing the experience of care, please direct any referrals, requests for an application, or requests for additional information to MGHGeneralPFAC@partners.org.
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Articles

Patient and Family Advisory
Councils Help Improve
Clinical Care in Anesthesia,
Periop, and More

Read about PFACs at Mass General in The Fruit Street Physician.

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MGH Hotline

Read more about the power of patient and family voices in the MGH Hotline.

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Caring Headlines

Read more about the effects of PFACs in Caring Headlines

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Discharge Phone Calls

While discharge calls were initially an “innovation,” given their effect on improved patient care, they have become standard practice.  Discharge phone calls:

  • Help us express care and concern for our patients after they are discharged home
  • Serve to positively impact the quality and safety of our patients by providing a means to ensure they understand their discharge instructions and to answer any questions.

Discharge Telephone Call

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