What is a Patient Guide?
A Patient Guide explains what patients and caregivers can expect and what patients need to know during their stay at the hospital. It is a must-read and an indispensable tool for hospital admission and discharge staffers to use to educate their patients.

That said, the Guide's language needs to be easy to understand, with insightful explanations that engage and hold the reader's interest. By including photos and images, it will enlighten or entertain, provide comfort to patients and help them relax and heal.

When reviewing Patient Guides think about who's reading them. Do the stories engage the reader? Can your eye move quickly through information, or does it look like a wall of gray? Can it be improved?

The Healthy Advice Best Practices Patient Guide includes up-to-date information and relevant content that hospitals must communicate to their patients. This editorial is matched with custom copy and prioritized according to the individual needs of the hospital.

Healthy Advice Content Library

In the early days of patient relations programs, hospitals had few information tools to help patients understand the hospital experience. They typically handed out discharge instructions with reminders to take required medications and make a follow-up doctor's appointment.

Healthy Advice® Hospitals goes far beyond simply collecting and reprinting data. With our portfolio of Patient Guide publications, directories, reference tools and inserts, we serve the medical community by interpreting and transforming data into high-value, intelligent and informative publications that custom-fit the patient education requirements of every hospital we work with. As a hospital's communications partner, we add value by:

• Guiding patients on what to expect during and after a hospital stay, and everything they need to know to get through it.
• Enabling hospital caregivers to inform and educate patients expertly and ensure the success of their patient relations programs.
• Advancing a hospital's reputation and building favorable relationships with patients and families, medical staff, employees and communities.

Our Product Line

Traditional Patient Guide - is completely written by the hospital then designed by Health Advice Hospitals Design Group. This Guide can also be filled with content from the Healthy Advice Content Library.

Best Practices Patient Guide - is a Word document template that the hospital can fill in or have Healthy Advice Hospitals edit with the old Guide's information. This Guide can be filled with content from the Healthy Advice Content Library.

Healthy Advice Content Library - includes educational and entertainment content, including Speak Up!, Patient Safety, Questions to Ask at Discharge, Healthy Recipes (courtesy of christinacooks.com), Food & Drug Interactions, Suduko, Crossword and much more!

Physician Directory - helps a hospital promote their physicians by listing them in a Guide format. Patients take them home and use as reference when they need a doctor.

Digital Guide - displays the Guide as its printed form and design via the web or interactive patient platform of the hospital. May be hosted on the hospital web site or may be linked from the Healthy Advice server. It is created after a Guide is printed. It is supported by the local health care businesses that support the printed Guide.