COMPLETED CONFERENCE

A. NAME AND LOCATION:
Creating an Optimal Healing Environment
Minneapolis, Minnesota
September 11-12, 2002

B. SPONSORS:
American Institute for Health and Healing
SAMUELI INSTITUTE
The Medtronic Foundation
The Bakken Leadership Forum
The Bakken Library and Museum

C. PURPOSE AND FOCUS:
To define an optimal healing environment from the perspective of providers and identify the components of that environment; to explore whether these components can become the standard of care; to identify strategies to implement the fundamental components of healing within our current health care system; to establish measurement criteria to assess the impact of an optimal healing environment on clinical outcomes, practitioner-patient relationships and cost.

D. INTENDED AUDIENCE:
Health providers and administrators, clinical research scientists, public health officials, government officials involved in health policy, patient advocates.

E. PLANNED OUTCOME:
The preparation of an article describing the content of the meeting suitable for publication in a peer-reviewed medical journal.