Radical Loving Care

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Radical Loving Care is the name of a book by Erie Chapman. The book describes an approach to health care intended to create patient experiences in hospitals and charities that honor the vulnerability of people in need. A key element of care described in Radical Loving Care is consistency, so that in a culture of loving care all patients would receive loving care from all caregivers all the time.

Healing Hospitals that have adopted the Radical Loving Care approach include: Baptist Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee (formal founding site - 1998); Parrish Medical Center, Titusville, Florida; St. Joseph Health System, Orange California; Lourdes Hospital, Paducah, Kentucky; Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, Ohio (early founding site - 1983); Sparrow Health System^[1], Lansing Michigan; Wuesthoff Hospital, Cocoa Beach, Florida and Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, Phoenix (Gilbert), Arizona.^{[citation needed]}

The book, ISBN 0-9747366-0-0, was published by The Baptist Healing Trust (of which Erie Chapman is President), in 2003.