ABSTRACT: This research focuses on the customer satisfaction of foreign patients in
regards to Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) at one private hospital to categorize five
behaviors of service standards: Hearty, Empathy, Attention, Relationship, Trust and Overall
Satisfaction. The data were collected from February to December 2008. The objectives of the
research are to study foreign patients customer satisfaction with private hospital services in
one private hospital and to identify factor criteria influence customer satisfaction. The result
would be used as guidelines to improve the quality of service in behavior of all staff levels in
the hospital and to increase customer satisfaction by using five main behaviors of service
standards. Calculation determined a sample size of 4704. From the study, the level of
customer satisfaction rated high in all categories: Hearty, Empathy, Attention, Relationship,
Trust and Overall Satisfaction. The highest rank in overall performance from “Excellent” was
in the category, Hearty with a rate of 73.4%. The next highest were Trust (73.2%) and
Empathy (69.6%). Low ranks from customer satisfaction were Attention (64.8%) and
Relationship (66.3%). Overall satisfaction was at 72.1% in this study. Patients will generally
form an impression of the level of competence of the staff as they experience various services
during their hospital visit. The customer satisfaction is upon the background, culture and
experience. Further analysis and research are needed to study the customer satisfaction of
each nation to customize the customer expectation to get better analysis of patient
satisfaction among different nationality.
Keywords: customer satisfaction, foreign patient, private hospital