Healing hospital provides its patients with a safe environment in terms of healing qualities that are related with interpersonal care and healthy interaction between health care providers and patients. It creates an environment that recognizes, supports and promotes the self healing abilities of the patients. A healing hospital helps the patients to achieve physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well being. In addition to technical competency such a hospital provides its patients with kindness, compassion, spirituality and relationship. (Zarren 1-5)
The increase in technical advancements in the field of health and medicine has enabled the health care providers to understand and treat almost all the diseases but it has been proved by a number of evidences that if the element of kindness, compassion, understanding, care and relationship are not present between the care taker and the one whose being taken care of then an influential element of healing is left behind. If the elements of spirituality are integrated in the health care and the reality of therapeutic relations are being maintained between the health care providers and receivers then this can improve the effectiveness of health care system to great impacts. In addition to that, this combination can also elevate the level of satisfaction of the patients, the staff and the doctors as well. ("Spiritual Care Matters" 13)
Components of Healing Hospitals
A healing hospital is quite different from a general brick and mortar hospital. There are three main components of a healing hospital. These components are listed below; (Eberst 1-3)
A Healing Physical Environment
Healing hospitals have an environment in which the staff members, who fulfill the responsibility of care givers, not only take care of the patients but they also interact and engage with the families of the patients. A loving, pleasing, aesthetic and compassionate environment is being created in the healing hospitals; as such an environment promotes effective healing process. A healing environment enables the patients and the families to manage and handle the stress and depression that is associated with illness. Noise is a barrier that hinders the healing process the most....
Healing Hospital: The development of a new hospital basically incorporates an emphasis on the number of beds, location of each department, number of employees and the total cost of the building project. While these considerations are important, the planning of the development of a healing hospital is focused on ensuring that the facility will be a reflection of a healing environment. The healing hospital not only provides patient with a safe
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Healing Hospital and the Importance of Spirituality Chapman (2003) defines a Healing Hospital as being about "loving service to others" (p.4). This paper examines the concept of the Healing Hospital and the role that spiritually plays in that model. Numerous theorists have argued that advances in technology, pressure on budgets, and drives for efficiency over the last few decades have shifted the focus of attention from general care giving to technological
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