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.
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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.
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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.
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