Reorienting staff attitudes toward the dying.
After assessing the kind of care it was providing to terminally ill patients and their families, Holy Cross Hospital of Silver Spring (MD) committed itself to a more balanced program of care that included the creation of a thanatology department, implementation of special educational programs for hospital personnel, and exploration of the possibility of establishing a hospice care concept at the hospital.
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001293:Attitude to Death; D006738:Hospices; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D008396:Maryland; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000193:education; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*; D013795:Thanatology