Patient–Focused Healing: Integrating Caring and Curing in Health Care (The Jossey-Bass health series) - Hardcover

Moore, Nancy; Komras, Henrietta

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555425844 ISBN 13: 9781555425845

Publisher: Jossey Bass, 1993

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

Moore and Komras outline a plan to restructure hospital services around patients and their needs, utilizing design and architecture to enhance the healing environment. The proposal?designed to decrease costs and improve the quality of health care?draws on their years of personal, practical experience.

From the Inside Flap

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 how their plan can 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. Nancy Moore and Henrietta Komras present the state–of–the–art health care practices that heal as well as cure, drawing on core concepts of systems theory, extensive research, lessons from pioneering hospitals, and on their extensive practical experience.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey Bass
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555425844
• ISBN 13: 9781555425845
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336