10.6.1 – Quality Assurance
Standard: The agency shall monitor and evaluate the quality of its programs, services and facilities from the user perspective. Examples include but are not limited to customer comment cards, secret/mystery shopper surveys, user satisfaction surveys, program evaluations and focus groups.
Suggested Evidence of Compliance: Provide recent examples of methods used to collect, monitor and evaluate quality assurance data from users.
Narrative:
PRC monitors and evaluates the quality of its programs, services and facilities from the user perspective in a variety of ways.
A “Secret” Shopping Service is contracted each year to visit and evaluate programs and facilities and report on their experiences. Additionally, residents regularly voice their opinions and concerns through the customer comment email address parksinfo@westchestercountyny.gov and on Social Media which provides immediate information on customer satisfaction.
Visitors are also offered an opportunity to comment through QR Code surveys conveniently located when visiting facilities which allow for the user to comment “in the moment.”
Program surveys remain an effective way to assess customer attitudes toward quality, for example the surveying of Nature Center Summer Camps to guage success.
Agency Evidence for Compliance:
10.6.1 – EOC 1 Shopping Service – Scope of Services
10.6.1 – EOC 2 Shopping Service – Contract
10.6.1 – EOC 3 Shopping Service Report – Maple Moor Golf Course
10.6.1 – EOC 4 Shopping Service Report – Willson’s Woods Park
10.6.1 – EOC 5 Shopping Service Report – Sprain Ridge Park
10.6.1 – EOC 6 Parksinfo Croton Point Park – Customer Comment and Response
10.6.1 – EOC 7 Parksinfo Lasdon Park – Customer Comment and Response
10.6.1 – EOC 8 Twitter South County Trailway – Comment
10.6.1 – EOC 9 QR Code User Survey Results – Beaches and Pools 2023
10.6.1 – EOC 10 QR Code User Survey Results – Blue Mountain Sportsman Center 2023
10.6.1 – EOC 11 QR Code User Survey Results – Trailways 2023
10.6.1 – EOC 12 Survey Results – Nature Center Summer Camps