Patient-Focused Healing: Integrating Caring and Curing in Health Care (JOSSEY BASS/AHA PRESS SERIES)

Providing a groundbreaking approach to reinventing health care, this book is a practical guide to placing patient healing back at the center of the hospital's mission. Drawing on a wealth of practical experience, the authors show health care professionals how to decrease costs and improve quality by restructuring hospital services around patients and their needs and by utilizing design and architecture to enhance the healing environment. Using the core concepts of systems theory, extensive research, and lessons from pioneering hospitals, they present state-of-the-art health care practices that heal as well as cure.

NANCY MOORE is Healing Healthcare Project director and manager of Mental Health Services at St. Charles Medical Center of BAnd, Oregon. HENRIETTA KOMRAS is a hospital consultant specializing in management training and organizational development.