RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOR WHOLE-PERSON CARE
A person is more than a diagnosis. The care system should see the whole person.
Body, feelings, relationships, daily life, and what gives life meaning all belong in care. We help practices bring that whole picture into their work, and work out how to keep it going, including how it is paid for.
In a study of people hospitalized with a heart attack, the attack was more likely in the days after someone close to them died. The clinic checks the heart. A practice can also ask about the loss.
Mostofsky E, et al. Circulation 2012;125:491. Case-crossover analysis of 1,985 heart attack patients; risk highest in the first 24 hours after the death and lower each day after.
Whole-person care
A diagnosis never tells the whole story.
Ask what matters to the person, what makes daily life harder, and what support is missing. Physical symptoms, emotions, relationships, practical needs, and meaning all belong in that conversation.
Why this matters
Start with one need your team could meet better.
Pick a problem that keeps coming back in your practice. Write down who responds now, where the handoff gets hard, and what follow-up is missing. That picture is enough to plan one change your team can try and review.
Publications and tools
Work through the decisions behind a care team.
Our Medicare book works through the question a counselor in a medical practice hears first. Who does the work, who is in charge, and who gets paid? Shorter guides each take one question. One is a ten-minute sheet for Michigan clinicians facing the March 2027 change. See what is ready today and what is still being written.
Second Edition in preparation
Before the team acts
The questions a team asks before it acts.
Before a team decides what care needs next, it can ask what matters to this person, look across the whole picture, agree on who helps, and settle how the work will be kept going. The questions fit any practice. The answers depend on the person.
About the Center
Whole-person care is our starting point.
The Center studies how care can see the whole person and what a team needs to do it. Our books, guides, and research support that work. The first ones are free.
Dr. Elizabeth Teklinski
PhD, LPC, NCC, NPT-C
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Her work helps clinicians understand the diagnostic and payment systems that shape their ability to provide connected care.
Dr. Andrew Teklinski
MD, MS, FACC, CCDS, RPVI
Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer
His work at the Center connects the demands of everyday medical practice with the evidence and collaboration needed to integrate mental and medical care.
