Healing Hospital

There is an ongoing and continuous debate within the health care field between the scientific and spiritual healing processes. Hospitals focus has shifted recently in that they no longer just treat ailments, but instead hospitals are starting to focus on the healing of the person as a whole (physically, mentally, and spiritually). This paper will address the healing components of a healing hospital and the challenges that form when a healing environment is created. Hospitals have been thought of as places to cure disease, but now new ideas are emerging about how hospitals should be, and how they should operate to better care for patients, families, and staff. The healing components of a hospital according to Grand Canyon University (2011) are addressed through three main areas technology, physical design features, and culture. An overview of a real world hospital will better illustrate just how these three main areas are slowly evolving in a modern healing hospital.
Bon Secours: St. Francis is located in Richmond, Virginia. This health care facility opened in 2005 as a state-of-the-art facility with 130 private patient rooms. Services that St. Francis offers are: surgical, women’s services, 24-hour onsite neonatology, 24-hour emergency care, cardiology, orthopedics, oncology, urology, pediatric services, cardiac catheterization, MRI/CT, diagnostic imaging and nuclear medicine (Bon Secours, 2013, para.1). St. Francis’s skilled team of caregivers provides services intended to address the whole person: body, mind, and spirit. The caregivers at St. Francis are specially trained to focus on the spiritual dimensions of health and illness (Bon Secours, 2013, para 3). Bon Secours: St. Francis (2013, para 1) prides itself as being a healing hospital through providing the most up to date advanced technology, a peaceful and contemplative environment, and having a culture of care.
Bon Secours St. Francis hospital offers the most up to date digital technology,