title: Reorienting staff attitudes toward the dying.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: 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