title: Defining a caring hospital by using currently implemented survey tools.
abstract: Health care organizations are constantly striving to provide a more cost-effective and higher quality treatment within a caring environment. However, balancing the demands of regulatory agencies with the holistic needs of the patient is challenging. Further challenging is how to define those hospitals that provide an exceptional caring environment for their patients. By using survey tools that are already being administered in hospital settings, the opportunity exists to analyze the results obtained from these tools to define a hospital as a caring organization without the added burden of separate data collection.
authors.affiliation: Chesapeake Regional Medical Center, Chesapeake, VA 23320, USA. nancy.jennings@chesapeakeregional.com
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Jennings
mesh_terms: D019468:Disease Management; D019538:Health Care Surveys / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005791:Patient Care / Q000379:methods*; D024382:Professional Role; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States