Welcome to The Patient Connection!

Welcome to the website of The Patient Connection, a sponsored research program which surveys and examines patient communications within the normal environment of a physician's office to assist in office policies, communications, and processing.

This Practices of Influence Choice Program will look at the influence of consumerism on the orthopedic practice today and assess why people choose your practice. This assessment will give you access to additional referral sources, knowledge of your patient loyalty, and a look at the region’s trends in the doctor-patient relationship. You may have already seen the information for a similar, sister program on the Kentucky Orthopaedic Society website.

You already use scientific measurement for the clinical side of your practice; The Patient Connection provides you with that same level of precision for consumerism analysis, allowing you to make more bottom line decisions. It’s time to empower the general population to take control of their healthcare decisions, and studies indicate, that when people do this, they choose specialists, like you.

What lies just below the surface in patient relations, can make or break a practice and have a bearing on patient overall care. Today's fast cycle of treatment practically requires balancing pure physical evaluation with other human factors that contribute to overall health.

This sponsored research program measures what is really going on within the practice and its communication styles.

Our Primary Sponsor

KORT is a private practice physical therapy group specializing in orthopedics, sports and industrial medicine. KORT has grown from one small physical therapy clinic in 1987 to 200 + committed professionals providing the power of "WOW" to patients in nearly 30 clinics, countless employer sites, and more than 25 high schools, colleges, and professional sports teams. Even though each site and every staff member has their own personality and approach to providing "WOW" service at KORT, when you stand back from KORT, you can see a distinct difference between KORT and other rehab providers. Physicians recognize it. Other therapists know about it. Former patients can and do feel it, repeatedly. We are proud of the work we do.