patient and family advisory councils Archive — Page 2 of 2

Vanderbilt University Medical Center poster titled “Delivering on the Patient and Family Promise.” It lists five communication practices—Introduce, Sit, Actively Listen, Ask, and Offer—and emphasizes including patients and families as important members of the health care team. A circular photo shows a patient with two health care workers.
October 5, 2017

Ideas abound for fulfulling Patient and Family Promise

Beginning this week, the first of a series of six messages is being distributed to Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) employees highlighting ways to best fulfill the Vanderbilt Patient and Family Promise, a guiding principle that was created by patients and providers and adopted at VUMC in 2013.

By Jill Clendening
Group portrait of 12 members of a psychiatric hospital patient and family advisory council, arranged with two seated in front and 10 standing behind in a meeting room.
August 30, 2012

Advisory councils tap experience of patients, families

By Vanderbilt Health News