ReachMD

As the President of Planetree, a non-profit organization, Frampton works with a growing network of hospitals and health centers across the U.S., Canada and Europe that have implemented Planetree's unique patient-centered model of care. Prior to her work with Planetree, she spent over twenty years at several hospitals in the New England area. Her work focused on community education, wellness and prevention, planning and development of integrative medicine service lines. Dr. Frampton received both masters and doctoral degrees in medical anthropology from the University of Connecticut, and has numerous publications, including the edited collection “Putting Patients First” (Jossey-Bass Publishing, 2003) which won the ACHE Hamilton Book of the Year Award in 2004, chapters in Patient Advocacy for Health Care Quality (Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2007) and articles and interviews in Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (2004), AHA News (2003), Modern Healthcare (2002), and Hospitals and Health Networks (2002). In addition to speaking widely on culture change, patient-centered design, and health care consumerism, Frampton has presented keynotes on designing patient-centered practices in primary care, continuing care, and ambulatory medicine settings for the MGMA, Healthcare Design Symposium, and Veterans Health Administration.