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Integrating Complementary Medicine into Health Systems

Author(s): Nancy Faass, MSW, MPH
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  • ISBN-13: 9780834212169
  • ISBN-10:0834212161
  • Hardcover    763 pages      © 2001
Price: International Sales $241.95 US List
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Overview

Winner of a Doody Publishing's 2001 Book of the Year award!

This comprehensive and in-depth guide provides the expertise of more than 100 of the nation's top professionals including administrators, actuaries, consultants, and clinicians. They share their professional experience in successful program development, including:

  • Trends and data
  • Practical strategic planning
  • Reimbursement, marketing, and policy
  • Credentialing and staffing
  • Regulations
  • Clinical operations
  • Assessment and research

Integrating Complementary Medicine into Health Systems includes complete case studies by over 40 model organizations and in-depth reviews of acupuncture, chiropractic, therapeutic massage, clinical nutrition, and herbal therapy.

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Introduction

I. Management Functions

Practical Strategic Planning
Reimbursement, Marketing, and Policy
Credentialing and Staffing
Regulations
Clinical Operations
Assessment and Research

II. Organizational Structures

Networks
Integrative Medicine Centers
Hospital-Based Programs
Wellness Programs for Hospital Systems and Employers

III. Integrative Disciplines

Acupuncture
Chiropractic
Massage
Clinical Nutrition
Herbal Therapy
Resources for Continuing Education in Integrative Medicine

IV. The Future

Future Perspectives

 


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Nancy Faass, MSW, MPH

Nancy Faass, MSW, MPH, is a writer and editor in San Francisco and director of HealthWritersGroup.com She provides book, manuscript, and Web content development in health and medicine. Ms. Faass is coauthor/coeditor of seven books, including Complementary Medicine in Clinical Practice (2005) and Integrating Complementary Medicine into Health Systems, selected by Doody's Publishing review service as a 2001 Book-of-the-Year (5 Stars).

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  • "100 points--5 stars! ...This book covers virtually every facet of integrative medicine from current trends, to CAM administration, model programs, resources, and research of five major disciplines. Especially well done are the chapters on strategic planning, policy regulations, and operations. Case studies, models, bibliographies, and checklists are some of the elements that make this book an excellent reference tool.

    First in the field, this compendium contains a wealth of information for healthcare administrators and practitioners. It is a 'must have' book for executives and decision makers transitioning into CAM programs or practices."

    --Reviewed for Doody Publishing by Martha J. Greenberg, PhD

     

    "Integrating Complementary Medicine into Health Systems, a 725-page Aspen Publications text, is a remarkable compilation of strategies, articles, how-to, and opinion which should prove to be the enduring core text for CAM integrators and would-be integrators. This definitive work manages to bring between two covers exceptional information from diverse, hands-on workers who are all leaders in the multi-stakeholder, integration undertaking - from research to coding, from network-based CAM coverage to hospital-based CAM delivery, from present utilization to a vision of optimal placement in a patient-centered system. For newcomers, Faass wisely includes a half-dozen sections on leading CAM modalities. Buy this one..."

    John Weeks, Publisher-Editor
    The Integrator for the Business of Integrative Healthcare

    "This book's scope, depth, and roster of contributing authors are impressive, to say the least. Integrating Complementary Medicine into Health Systems contains a wealth of practical strategies every organization will need."

    Barbara Montgomery Dossey, RN, MS, HNC, FAAN
    Director of Holistic Nursing Consultants, Sante Fe

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This text is a vital resource for administrators, marketing directors, and steering committees in managed care, hospitals, medical centers, and health systems. Students training to become practitioners of complementary therapies will also benefit from this text, as will those interested in integrative medicine.

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