Healing Hospital: A Daring ParadigmHealing Hospital: A Daring ParadigmGrand Canyon University: HLT-310VHealing hospitals contain three main components, a healing physical environment, the integration of work design and technology, and a culture of radical loving care (Eberst, 2008). Spirituality is the religion or the individual’s identified experience in relation to their reality. The healing hospital philosophy incorporates the physical body with the spiritual mind and spirit of the individual to provide the best care possible.
A healing physical environment provides care to the mind, body, and spirit. This begins with the right culture in place. Health care professionals must contain the core beliefs of compassion for the patient, a servant’s attitude, and a recognition and action towards meeting the patient’s emotional and spiritual needs. The facility’s design must take into the consideration the three components of the individual. It needs to allow easy access for the patient, provide privacy and protection, and promote complete wellness for the individual. Technology is important as health care advances into the future. It can provide better access to education to the patient, timely service enabling quicker treatment and increased time available to address the emotional and spiritual needs of the patient, and better diagnostic and interventional treatments to treat both mind and body.
Healing environments in hospitals are challenged by cynicism and spirituality, business and economics, and the bureaucracy and leadership in hospitals. Cynicism infects the health care workplace as some people don’t believe that creating a healing environment improves the patient outcome or don’t feel that is important aspect of the health care model (Chapman, 2007). The idea of incorporating spirituality poses a conflict in the way health care professionals sometimes think. In the past we were taught that religion, as what we defined as spirituality, was to be separated from the workplace (Ashcraft, Anthony, & Mancuso, 2010).
Health care has ballooned into a large part of the United States of America’s economy occupying in 2001 13% of the gross national product; this in turn has led to health care being looked at as a business (Chapman, 2007). The health care businesses and the government must look at the cost and profitability to keep health care access viable or keep the shareholders happy. This can lead to an increase in patient to nurse ratio, quicker discharges, tight hospital budgets, and increased out of pocket expense to the individual. As described by Laurie Eberst “A loud floor cleaning machine swooped next to my mother’s room startling her and causing increased anxiety” (Eberst, 2008). Hospitals and health care facilities are sometimes faced with tight budget constraints leading many to choose between necessary
s to stay connected. (See “Directioning in a Changing World” for more detail on setting up healthcare systems with social-health and financial-care options available for care and education (Eberst).)
5. What is the difference between an effective public-health education organization and a private-risk insurance company?
A public-health education organization might look at its cost and profitability closely to ensure its students’ health and safety. They might look to its management for guidance, accountability and financial transparency. They might look at how the organization finances itself and whether the funds that are raised through this are made available to its patients or patients’ parents. They might review its existing health care programs that its employees have enrolled in with the same respect for the patient-physician bond. They might look to its health professionals to determine how the organization’s overall system can make health changes that are truly equitable to all patients.
6. What is the difference between a private-risk insurance group and an effective, non-profit organization?
Private-risk is a network of individuals and organizations that offers quality and financial products (e.g., health insurance, health-care telemedicine) that are effective at avoiding out-of-pocket costs incurred through costs for patient care. Public-risk is one type of healthcare organization that has the ability to provide affordable and well-informed access to the best parts of medical care.
7. How does Public-Risk Organizations Work?
Proprietary information is an integral portion of health care. A public-risk and private-risk insurance group may look at the information it receives (e.g., medical bills that can be paid to members of its health care workforce for certain non-medical services, for instance) in terms of its ability to create a clear and objective plan for providing health services and whether it has a competitive advantage over the private sector for that same care. Private-risk groups may use this data to conduct statistical analysis to see how they can optimize their organization’s current systems and systems for meeting that objective. Some types of competitive advantage include providing health insurance coverage to those with less than 100 years of experience, or providing medical services to people with chronic medical conditions, such as people who are also under-represented in the health-care system as patients. For example, if a program provides preventive care to patients or those with serious medical conditions, the group may consider the program as being likely to be able to expand coverage to all patients and those who are most at risk for illness.
8. What is the difference between Health-Related Compensation and Private-Health Insurance?
Private-health insurance company systems can differ from public-risk companies in one essential way: Health-related compensation schemes are run by hospitals and doctors. Hospitals and physicians offer health care based on a set of benchmarks and are sometimes called “patient quality,” based on what their patients require. Private-health insurance company systems often meet one of these criteria.
The number of insured persons or businesses receiving health care in the United States has dramatically declined since the early 2000s and remained at about 70%: Since 2008