You Already Know How to Do Whole Person Care
An excerpt from Healing and Cancer: A Guide to Whole Person Care If you've never (until reading Healing and Cancer) heard of the Personal Health Inventory (PHI) as a tool…
Clinician as Healer
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How to Measure Nothing
In health care, if you do not name and document a problem or a process, it remains invisible. It might as well be nothing. The biggest problem we have for…
Patient Education
With chronic illness, medical treatment alone is only responsible for up to 20% of improvement. The other 80% comes from lifestyle, behavior, and environmental causes outside the doctor’s office. We…
Helping Cancer Survivors Be Well: An Integrative Oncology Leadership Collaborative Case Study
The Ann B. Barshinger Cancer Institute (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is a community cancer center that delivers hands-on, personalized care and advanced medicine to the Lancaster community. The cancer institute supports the mind, body, and spirit of patients and their families.
Cancer Health Care Disparities: An Integrative Oncology Leadership Collaborative Case Study
During the Integrative Oncology Leadership Collaborative, the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center team focused on addressing health care disparities among cancer patients by planning group medical visits, beginning work to offer patient resources in Spanish, and working to make integrative medicine accessible to more cancer patients. The team moved toward offering integrative oncology.
Matching Patients with the Right Supportive Care Programs at the Right Time: Integrative Oncology Leadership Collaborative Case Study
During the Integrative Oncology Leadership Collaborative, the Inova Schar Cancer Institute team began to shift the focus from disease-specific care to whole person care by piloting the Personal Health Inventory (PHI) in one clinic and using this as an opportunity to better understand patients’ integrative care needs from day one.
Whole Person Primary Care
Whole person primary care is just good medicine. It is person-centered, relationship-based care, and it takes into account the social, spiritual, emotional, and behavioral aspects of health as well as…
Whole Person Cancer Care
It is really a disease of people—whole people and their loved ones. And cancer affects not only the body but the mind and spirit as well. The effects of a…
Dr. Kavitha Reddy: Whole Health from the VA Perspective
Welcome to our inaugural episode of How Healing Works! I'm happy you're here. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Kavitha Reddy, the Associate Director of Employee Whole Health…