This Article Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by Frampton, S. B. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                         What's this?

Planetree Patient-Centered Care and the Healing Arts

In 1985, one of the most far-reaching experiments in the realm of holistic health was launched. The first of five Planetree Model Hospitals opened at a large academic medical center in San Francisco. Everything in the unique medical-surgical unit was designed with the patient's perspective in mind. The unit was the culmination of many years of work by a group of visionaries inspired, fittingly, by a single patient. This patient had undergone a traumatic, though not unusual, hospital stay. Limited information exchange between patient and providers, limited visiting hours, imper sonal treatment by hospital staff, and harsh institutional surroundings had resulted in anything but a healing experience. Motivated by a vision of what a hospital could be, Planetree was founded with the mission to change the way health care was delivered, and to personalize, humanize, and demystify the patient experience.

Complementary Health Practice Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, 17-19 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/153321010100700103


CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter    What's this?