Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Introduction At a conference in 2012‚ Health Affairs Editor-in Chief Susan Dentzer affirmed‚ “It is well established now that one can in fact improve the quality of health care and reduce the costs at the same time” (Rickert‚ 2012). This is the principal concept of “patient centered care”. Health-care providers practicing patient centered care enhance not only patients’ medical outcomes‚ but increase patient satisfaction rates and improve the quality of the
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Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Betty Cronier Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Health Care HLT 310V Debbie Whitler‚ BS‚ MA May 15‚ 2011 Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm As stated by Erie Chapman “healing hospitals” are centers of love characterized by a myriad of wonderful encounters‚ many small and a few large (2011). This paradigm of such a caring concept focuses on removing stressors for patients‚ families and caregivers from the clinical environment. These stressors inhibit
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Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Sandra Mays Grand Canyon University HLT310V Patricia Mullen September 12‚ 2010 Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm The spirituality in a healing hospital starts with the Chief Executive Officer and spirals downward toward management‚ and then the frontline employees. Healing hospitals must have a form of culture that serves the community. This includes the building‚ its contents‚ the CEO‚ the managers‚
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Running head: HEALING HOSPITAL: A DARING PROGRAM Healing Hospital: A Daring Program Mary Manning Grand Canyon University Foundations of Spirituality in Health Care HLT 310V Patricia Mullen August 28‚ 2011 Healing Hospital: A Daring Program In today’s hospital environment‚ our main focus is placed on technology‚ medications and treating a diagnosis. Often patients are wheeled from one examination to another with little personal interaction received from their healthcare provider
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delicate balance of all the aspects of healing in relationship to one another. Much of the focus of modern medicine has shifted from the emotional‚ spiritual‚ aspect of the patient to just mere medicine and the advancement of procedures‚ equipment and technology. The author of this paper aims to show an important and much overlooked relationship between the spiritual aspect of the patient and healing. All too often‚ the patient as a whole does not get treated. Hospitals get ran as a business instead of
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Running head: HEALING HOSPITAL: A DARING PARADIGM Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Karen McDevitt Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Health Care HLT 310V Patricia Mullen April 07‚ 2011 Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Service‚ Integrity‚ Safety‚ Trust‚ and Respect may be the core values established as guidelines for hospitals’ staff members. Without love it will not qualify as a Healing Hospital. The employees need to embrace the human spirit and incorporate genuine
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A healing hospital is built on the ancient tradition that love is at the center of healing. Within that framework‚ the Golden Thread – a symbol of our faith in God – requires that we strike a balance between the latest scientific advancements and the demands of the human spirit. As healthcare providers‚ we are called upon to tend to our patient’s heart and head. For a hospital to truly be healing‚ the Golden Thread must be continuous. As both healers and patients‚ it is the Golden Thread that connects
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The challenges of creating a healing environment and the components of healing hospitals When a new hospital is being planned and built‚ the main focus is based on the number of beds it will house‚ the location of each department‚ how many it will employ and the main item is cost of the project but a healing environment is based on helping the patients feel safe‚ comfortable and stress free. These hospitals will deal with components or needs which include love‚ meaning in life‚ forgiveness and hope
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Healing Hospital Religious beliefs and practices are an important aspect in many of the patients’ lives who are seeking medical care and the proper treatment in medical institutions all over. This has been a challenge for many physicians and medical professionals because their training consists primarily on dealing with and treating different types of diseases and diagnoses (McCormick‚1998). Another issue that has been surrounding this topic is the privacy of the patients which medical professionals
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Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Meghan Weir Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Health Care HLT-310V Kristan Farley May 16‚ 2013 Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm As the health care atmosphere changes‚ there has been a growing interest to closely examine how spirituality‚ values‚ and morals contribute to patient outcomes; specifically what it means to truly heal a patient. In the past‚ medical care was mostly geared towards curing our patients and their illnesses physically.
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