Embracing The Whole Patient: Holistic Best Practices That Elevate Care

In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, patients are seeking more than just effective treatment. They want and even demand comprehensive, personalized and delightful experiences. For healthcare practices, this means going beyond traditional care and adopting a holistic approach that focuses not just on solving acute problems, but improving patients’ overall well-being.This article will explore the best practices for today's healthcare providers; we’ll be discussing some of the ways practitioners can create holistic experiences, emphasize self-care, foster that elusive sense of delight and build an overall culture of care that keeps patients coming back year after year.In their dental practice, when patients come into the office with a toothache, they don’t just want to fill their cavity and send them home.

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Adopting a holistic approach involves addressing patients’ emotional, mental and physical health along with whatever a healthcare practice’s specialty is (in our case, dental care.) In their practice, we tailor patient treatment plans to take into account the psychology of each patient. They keep patients involved in the process, and we break things down into stages, or phases, for the patient. Some patients want to get all of their routine dental work done in one visit; others simply cannot handle doing everything at once. Their patients are given the option to move as quickly or slowly through these phases as they feel fit; they know their schedule, they know their finances and they know their personal tolerance for dental work.

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