Fairview Press

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Fairview Press (formerly Deaconess Press) is the publishing arm of Fairview Health Services, a regional healthcare provider affiliated with the University of Minnesota. Fairview Press publishes books and other forms of patient education materials on topics such as aging and eldercare, grief and bereavement, and health and wellness. They are headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

1 History
2 References
3 External links

[edit] History

[edit] 1989 to 1995

Publishing commenced under the name of Deaconess Press, with an initial editorial focus on behavioral therapy—including chemical dependency treatment, recovery, and prevention literature.

[edit] 1995 to 1997

Name changed to Fairview Press. Acquisitions prior to and during this period were expanded to include a broad range of non-fiction books dedicated to parenting and family issues. Fairview Press authors appeared in a number of mass media outlets, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The company published a number of popular general-interest hardcover books during this time, including Good Morning, Captain (autobiography of Bob Keeshan, TV’s original Captain Kangaroo) and a book series by TV’s original Slim Goodbody. John Cook’s inspirational anthology, The Book of Positive Quotations (along with later series volumes edited by Steve Deger and Leslie Ann Gibson) continues to rank among the top 50 reference books in the country. Popular trade paperback parenting titles included Jeanette Gadeberg’s Raising Strong Daughters and Brave New Girls, as well as Selling Out America’s Children by David Walsh, founder of National Institute on Media and the Family.

[edit] 1997 to 2000

Economic contraction within the retail book industry resulted in high returns in consignment inventory, forcing the publisher to downsize and to once again change the focus of its publishing program in order to better align itself with the healthcare mission of its parent company. Acquisitions focused primarily on books dealing with aging, health and wellness, and grief & bereavement. Key titles from this period include Elizabeth Levang’s When Men Grieve, Janis Silverman’s Help Me Say Goodbye, and The Underground Guide to Teenage Sexuality by health scientist Michael J. Basso.

[edit] 2000 to Present

Fairview Press continues to acquire and publish some unsolicited trade book manuscripts, but most material is now written by staff, professional affiliates, and other local authors. Recent titles include a series of art therapy books for children, anthologies of aging-related interviews by former National Public Radio staff member Connie Goldman, and four books on integretive medicine and complementary care published in cooperation with the Center for Spirituality and Healing. Fairview Press has won several National Mature Media Awards, state book awards, and American Journal of Nursing Book-of-the-Year Awards. The company maintains a print on demand database of several thousand patient education pamphlets, brochures, and booklets, which are used by the publisher’s parent company and which Fairview Press customizes for other healthcare systems.