2003 Issue #03 · Issue · Healthcare Review

Grassroots Action Group Rises up in the Midst of Fiscal Doom and Gloom
Community hospitals nationwide are struggling to stay viable as economic times and legislative agendas threaten to wield financial devastation. Hospitals and their patients are beginning to experience the effects of escalating medical malpractice insurance premiums, ongoing cuts to Medi-care reimbursements, costs for [...]

Design Responses to Integrative Care
Healthcare providers are increasingly recognizing the importance of combining conventional medicine with complementary care. As more and more patients seek alternatives to conventional medicine, practitioners are developing new responses and offering a broader range of services. Healthcare practitioners are facing the need to develop and dedicate infrastructure and space [...]

A Prescription for Quality Talent
Staffing shortages, elevated turnover rates, early retirements, higher patient volumes, and dwindling profit margins

Complementary/Alternative Therapies Thriving in Traditional Healthcare Settings
Over the past two decades, an integration of Eastern medicine (the basis for many alternative therapies) with traditional Western practices has brought a powerful caring and curing. The ever-increasing interest in alternative therapy by both healthcare professionals and the general public has led to the incorporation of [...]

Long Distance Learning in NEIT

Yoga Optimizes the Body Inside and Out
Springfield Hospital in Springfield, VT, supports yoga for its proven health benefits and in response to the rising number of requests from patients for alternative therapies. In yoga, one focuses on breathing, and therein lies its healing effects, said Gary Venman-Clay, MD, a family practice physician who incorporates [...]

Grassroots Action Group Rises up in the Midst of Fiscal Doom and Gloom
Community hospitals nationwide are struggling to stay viable as economic times and legislative agendas threaten to wield financial devastation. Hospitals and their patients are beginning to experience the effects of escalating medical malpractice insurance premiums, ongoing cuts to Medi-care reimbursements, costs for [...]

Design Responses to Integrative Care
Healthcare providers are increasingly recognizing the importance of combining conventional medicine with complementary care. As more and more patients seek alternatives to conventional medicine, practitioners are developing new responses and offering a broader range of services. Healthcare practitioners are facing the need to develop and dedicate infrastructure and space [...]

A Prescription for Quality Talent
Staffing shortages, elevated turnover rates, early retirements, higher patient volumes, and dwindling profit margins

Complementary/Alternative Therapies Thriving in Traditional Healthcare Settings
Over the past two decades, an integration of Eastern medicine (the basis for many alternative therapies) with traditional Western practices has brought a powerful caring and curing. The ever-increasing interest in alternative therapy by both healthcare professionals and the general public has led to the incorporation of [...]

Long Distance Learning in NEIT

Yoga Optimizes the Body Inside and Out
Springfield Hospital in Springfield, VT, supports yoga for its proven health benefits and in response to the rising number of requests from patients for alternative therapies. In yoga, one focuses on breathing, and therein lies its healing effects, said Gary Venman-Clay, MD, a family practice physician who incorporates [...]