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Patient Passports, Compassionate Interactions and Shared Decision Making, Oh My! By Susan Frampton, PhD, President, Planetree During a recent conference call with the members of Planetree’s...
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A Resource You Can Use
A Resource You Can Use The National Academy of Medicine’s Patient & Family Leadership Network recently put the finishing touches on a comprehensive resource compendium that summarizes available...
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Bringing Compassion Into Care: “Sticking Up” for Patients and Practitioners
Bringing Compassion Into Care: “Sticking Up” for Patients and Practitioners By Eric M. Stone, Co-Founder and CEO, Velano Vascular, eric.stone@velanovascular.com, www.velanovascular.com As a chronic...
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Suggested Ways to Celebrate Patient-Centered Care Awareness Month
Suggested Ways to Celebrate Patient-Centered Care Awareness Month Patient-Centered Care Awareness Month is an international awareness-building campaign to commemorate the progress that has been made...
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Resident Behavior Mapping at Carlton Manor: Sharing our Success
Resident Behavior Mapping at Carlton Manor: Sharing our Success By Cheyanne Wyers-Culbert, BN, RN, MN, Director of Nursing, Carleton Manor Resident Behavior Mapping is our community’s approach to...
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Teaching, Learning and Reflecting: Behaviors that Promote Compassionate...
Teaching, Learning and Reflecting: Behaviors that Promote Compassionate Interactions By Steve Horowitz, MD, Medical Director of Planetree and Cardiac Care, Cardiology Chief Emeritus Stamford Hospital A...
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What Being a Brave Patient Means to Me
What Being a Brave Patient Means to Me Laila Hallam, Consumer Advocate Bravery is to continue to speak up for yourself when it’s easier to succumb and be “told.” Bravery is to forgive when mistakes...
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Patient-Centered Research and Patient-Centered Care: Connecting the Dots
Patient-Centered Research and Patient-Centered Care: Connecting the Dots By Sue Sheridan, MBA, MIM, DHL, Director of Patient Engagement, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) As we...
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Hope in the Garden: Design Thinking Yields a New Model for Dementia Care
Hope in the Garden: Design Thinking Yields a New Model for Dementia Care By Beth Zeitlin, Director of Marketing and Development at Abe’s Garden One of the many benefits of being a member of the...
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Join the social revolution at #Planetree15
Join the social revolution at #Planetree15! Are you coming to the Planetree Conference in Boston? Then prepare to get social. Stop by Mindset Digital’s Social Lab to: Learn the latest in Twitter,...
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Arts Medicine for Veterans: Exploring Creative Strategies for Posttraumatic...
Arts Medicine for Veterans: Exploring Creative Strategies for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder By Mary C. Rorro, D.O., VA New Jersey Healthcare System Can the arts transform the treatment experience of...
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Connecticut Planetree Hospitals Leading the State in Quality and Safety
Connecticut Planetree Hospitals Leading the State in Quality and Safety The only two Planetree Designated Patient-Centered Hospitals in the state of Connecticut – Griffin Hospital in Derby, CT and...
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Two Sides of a Coin
Two Sides of a Coin: Being a Patient’s Family & Being the Provider By Ilkay Bylam, Patient Relative & Manager, Patient-Centered Care, Anadolu Medical Center, Turkey It was a warm Los Angeles...
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Planetree Polls Explore What Matters Most to Patients
Planetree Polls Explore What Matters Most to Patients The results of a series of Patient-Centered Care Awareness Month polls exploring patients’ preferences for healthcare underscores that a...
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Leveraging the Human Factor in Healthcare Performance
Leveraging the Human Factor in Healthcare Performance: Highlights from the 2015 International Planetree Conference By Lisa Platt, MS, CPC-PI, CSSBB, EDAC, LEED AP BD+C, Planetree Director of Business...
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In Memoria of Joe Parimucha
In Memoria of Joe Parimucha: A Planetree Healing Environments Pioneer I never had the pleasure of meeting Joe Parimucha in person. However as both a healthcare designer myself in my previous work and...
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Services Spotlight
Person-Centered End-of-Life Care Series Person-centered end-of-life care honors patients’ wishes, supports patients, families and healthcare teams in being on the same time page about the patient’s...
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Planetree Business
Call for Abstracts! 2016 Health Promoting Hospitals & Health Services Conference From June 8-10, 2016, the 2016 Health Promoting Hospitals & Health Services Conference will be held for the...
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Designing Loneliness out of the Patient Experience
Designing Loneliness out of the Patient Experience By Darien Kadens Ph.D., MBA – Director of Research, Healthcare and Principal Health Outcomes Scientist, Sodexo USA and Thomas Jelley M.Sc., LL.B. –...
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Announcing New Partner Office
Announcing New Partner Office We are very pleased to announce the official opening of our fifth international office, Planetree América Latina, located in Santiago, Chile and serving Spanish-speaking...
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