CHCS February 24, 2020
As the health care field searches for better ways to provide care that improves outcomes and controls costs, organizations are seeking innovative ways to understand and respond to the full range of medical, behavioral health, and social needs of patients. Widening the lens of how we think about the purpose of health care services to include supporting and fostering wellbeing in patients and clients may be one way to get there. Wellbeing is defined by the Full Frame Initiative as “the set of needs and experiences that we all require for health and hope.” Thinking about increasing access to wellbeing as a pathway to health, rather than the other way around, may meet patient needs more effectively than traditional approaches...