Griffin Hospital and Planetree Leaders Author New Book 'Putting Patients...

PR Newswire;  July 30, 2003 ;     653 words ......The Future of the Health Care Workforce, Planetree on the Spiritual...about the future of health care. Planetree is celebrating the...and their families. Planetree pioneered a radical approach to health care profoundly altering...

Planetree Model is making a mark on health care -- Grows to 55 affiliated...

M2 Presswire;  February 28, 2002 ;     700+ words ......2002-Planetree Model: Planetree Model is making a mark on health care -- Grows to 55...patients want in the health care environment and...Alliance members, Planetree affiliates have...North Carolina Health Care System. Planetree was founded in...

Griffin chief picked for health care panel

New Haven Register;  December 14, 2004 ;     461 words ......Research on health care issues, specifically...also the CEO of Planetree Inc., a health care organization...Griffin and Planetree have done in...great work that Planetree and Griffin...to make the health care experience better...

'Putting Patients First' Named Healthcare Book of the Year; Griffin and...

PR Newswire;  February 3, 2004 ;     493 words ......exploration of the Planetree Model of Care...hospitals and health care organizations...Future of the Health Care Workforce, Planetree on the Spiritual...Hospitals: The New Health Care Environmentalism...Centered Care. Planetree is celebrating...expectations of ...

The Power of One to Create a Health Care Revolution; Unhappy Patient...

PR Newswire;  August 17, 2004 ;     700+ words ......of today's health care consumer...non-profit Planetree organization http://www.planetree.org/ is an...patient-centered, health care. The Planetree Alliance...United States, Planetree's voice has...patient and health care consumer...

Health care evolution: New roles for family and consumer professionals

Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The health care evolution affects families in how they use and pay for health care. Communities face changes in the types of...community members make choices to use the health care system. The purpose of this paper is to describe...

Health care reform: what's it all about?

South Dakota Business Review;  December 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ...The new health care reform will touch the lives of every...change our lives, particularly our health care, for the better or the worse? This...discussion some of the perspectives of health care reform. First, the need for health...

High technology health care.

National Forum;  September 22, 1989 ;     700+ words ...High Technology Health Care John Gardner once said of higher...the same applies to the American health care system. There are many blind defenders...a critical lover of the American health care system. I admire it a great deal...

Managed care: employer's influence on the health care system.

Nursing Economics;  July 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Health care consumers and purchasers are demanding...and accessibility of services from the health care industry and its providers. Kerfoot and...merging of hospitals into integrated health care networks (p. 280). The reform momentum...

Time for 'coopetition' is now.(research of finance and management of...

Physician Executive;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...The health care industry is a study in the juxtapositions...United States, we outspend the world on health care, yet find our own epidemiologic statistics...intrinsic intensity of the core business of health care is the political and economic problem...

Can health insurance costs be controlled? (Symposium: Health Care)

Review of Business;  December 22, 1992 ;     700+ words ...Health care insurance has been available to employees for more than...free to employees or were offered at a very low cost. Health care insurance is no longer inexpensive. Health care costs have increased the cost of medical insurance.|1...

Quality: Will it become the benchmark for managing HEALTH CARE COSTS?

Corporate Report Wisconsin;  May 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Measuring health care quality may prove to be the best long-term strategy for controlling health care expenses. But in the short term, businesses...double-digit increases in the cost of employee health care benefits. A Wisconsin example of how employers...

Reforming Health Care in Europe.

West European Politics;  April 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Health care policy has been a crucible of welfare reform in Europe for a quarter...first arises from what might be called the welfare dimension of health care. Health care matters. Not often, but sometimes, it is a matter of life and death...

The Silent Health Care Revolution: The Rising Demand For Complementary...

Nursing Economics;  September 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY is currently undergoing another revolution that is essentially going unnoticed by a majority of health care professionals. Health care professionals have been preoccupied with the health care...

National reform coming, health care expert says

The Gazette;  November 17, 2006 ;     524 words ...The health care radar screen is blipping toward national health care reform, but it probably won't happen until after...respond when employers can no longer tolerate rising health care costs -- and I think we're getting close to the breaking...