Continuing Care in a Community Hospital

by Harold N. Willard, Stanislav V. Kasl

Overview

In this report on one of the first continuing care departments in the country, Dr. Harold Willard describes how he set up and directed a program in Thayer Hospital, Waterville, Maine, to provide the personnel and services necessary for improved care of patients with chronic illnesses. The community hospital, he maintains, must be the center for developing methods for health maintenance and care of the chronically ill. Two chapters by Dr. Stanislav Kasl provide a theoretical background for continuing care and discuss the importance of information from the behavioral sciences in the development and operation of continuing care programs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674167759
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1972
Series:	Commonwealth Fund Publications , #41
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 0.70(d)