A focused, expert review of your most important healthcare communication — and a clear roadmap to make it work for patients and staff.

Who it’s for

Healthcare executives, chief nursing officers, patient experience leaders, directors of quality, ambulatory leaders, and physician practice leaders who know their communication could be clearer — and want an expert eye to show them where, and what to do about it.

What’s included

  • A structured review of your selected materials — patient instructions, education, staff or operational communication — against health literacy and patient experience best practices.
  • Identification of the highest-risk clarity gaps that drive confusion, repeat calls, and missed steps.
  • A prioritized set of recommendations, ranked by impact and effort, that you can act on immediately.
  • Guidance on where responsible AI can safely accelerate the work — without replacing clinical judgment.
  • A concise written summary and a live walkthrough session.

How it works

  1. Share — You send the materials you’d like reviewed.
  2. Review — We assess them against evidence-based standards.
  3. Roadmap — You receive prioritized recommendations and a walkthrough.

Why Care Experience Lab

Led by Cheri Clancy, MSN, MS, RN, NEA-BC, CPXP — a nurse executive and certified patient experience professional with 30+ years in healthcare leadership. This is clinical and operational expertise grounded in health literacy science, not generic copywriting.

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The Care Experience Lab Framework

Six ways we create clarity

Communication

Plain language that lands

Patient Experience

Designed around people

Responsible AI

Ethical, practical AI

Leadership

Safe, capable teams

Workflow Design

Less friction, better care

CPXP Education

Grow the profession

Executive Expertise

How Care Experience Lab helps

Advisory for Leaders

Strategy for patient experience, communication, and operations.

Frameworks & Toolkits

Ready-to-use tools teams can apply immediately.

Leadership Education

Building psychologically safe, capable teams.

Responsible AI Guidance

Adopt AI safely, ethically, and practically.

Keynotes & Workshops

Practical sessions for healthcare audiences.

CPXP Preparation

Coaching toward the patient experience credential.

Use Cases

See complexity become clarity

A real example — turning dense colonoscopy prep instructions into a clear, visual patient guide.

Before: dense, text-heavy colonoscopy preparation instructions
Before — dense, text-heavy instructions
After: clear, visual colonoscopy preparation patient guide
After — clear, visual patient guide

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From the Resource Library

Frameworks you can use today

Responsible AI Governance Toolkit

Adopt AI safely and ethically.

CAHPS Leadership Toolkit

Turn CAHPS data into better experiences.

Health Literacy & Plain Language Toolkit

Make complex content easy to act on.

Explore Resources

Book & Thought Leadership

Communication that builds trust

Critical Conversations in Healthcare, Third Edition by Cheri Clancy - book cover

Third Edition · Sigma Theta Tau International

Critical Conversations in Healthcare

Scripts and techniques for effective interprofessional and patient communication — turning difficult conversations into clear, trusted ones. Authored by Cheri Clancy.

About Care Experience Lab

Meet the founder

Cheri Clancy, MSN, MS, RN, NEA-BC, CPXP, is a nurse leader, patient experience strategist, author, educator, and healthcare communication expert. Her work focuses on helping healthcare organizations improve how people communicate, lead, teach, and build trust across complex care environments.

She is the author of Critical Conversations in Healthcare, Third Edition, published by Sigma Theta Tau International, and has spent her career helping healthcare professionals navigate difficult conversations with clarity, empathy, and practical skill.

Through Care Experience Lab, Cheri brings together clinical leadership, patient experience expertise, health literacy, adult education, healthcare operations, and responsible AI to help organizations turn complex information into communication patients, caregivers, staff, and leaders can understand and use.

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Why leaders trust Cheri

  • Nurse leader with executive patient experience and healthcare operations background
  • Certified Patient Experience Professional (CPXP) and board-certified nurse executive
  • Author of Critical Conversations in Healthcare, Third Edition
  • Educator, speaker, and consultant focused on communication, leadership, and care experience