The new direction in health care
and professional continuing education

Our Whole Person Care program is a customized curriculum for medical facilities designed to enhance recruitment and retention, as well as clinical and profitability outcomes. This outstanding model for organizational transformation:

• Provides educational seminars on professionally produced DVDs with evidence-based curriculum, books and texts
  
• Provides opportunity for nurses, dietetics, social workers, health educators, and therapeutic massage providers
  to earn approved contact hours
  
• Best Practice care skills are readily integrated into the clinical setting, improving patient and staff satisfaction
  
• Provides on-line and toll free support for each participant

This outstanding program includes, for each staff member, instructional DVD classes designed for self-directed skills development. These classes were filmed during live presentations conducted at the New England Medical Center, the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Massachusetts and the Boston Center for Adult Education.

Whole Health Education-this unique curriculum has been nominated by a Harvard affiliate hospital for the Fetzer Institute’s prestigious Norman Cousin’s Award, for Best Practice in Relationship-Centered Patient Care.

The model of Whole Health Education integrates evidence-based research with the wisdom of relationship-centered, whole person care. It provides the health professional with unique tools and take-away learning to transform her level of care-giving, as well as transform the essence of her work environment. This is achieved by creating in the moment, meaningful relationship and mindful presence with patients and colleagues.

These skills have been shown to:

• invite patients into the center of their healing and health care¹
• enhance the practice of nursing²·³
• reduce staff attrition³
• improve staff morale³
• increase patient satisfaction¹·³

For more information about our Whole Person Care program
for your school, clinic or hospital, contact us at

1-888-354-HEAL (4325)

¹ Union Hospital, Harvard affiliate, Pilot Trial Study 1997-2001.
²Pew-Fetzer Task Force Report on Advancing Psychosocial Health Education for Health Professions - Relationship-Centered Care. Pew Health Professions Commission at the University of California, San Francisco, Center for Health Professionals. Published 1994.
³Press Ganey Associates analyzed summary data from 33 US hospitals 10/2003.
Denis Kaldenberg, Ph.D., Senior Vice President for Research at Press Ganey.

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