This article was first published in the June 2015 Integrator Round-up.
As an overview of Gaithersburg, Maryland-based Casey Health Institute,
it is highlighted here as part of a recent partnership between the Project for Integrative Health and the Triple Aim (PIHTA)
and the Casey Health Institute (CHI) for which the Integrator is providing media support. At the time of the interview, CHI had "met almost all of the criteria for a Level 3 PCMH." The Center employs four primary care integrative medical doctors, one nurse
practitioners, two licensed acupuncturists, one naturopathic doctor, two
psychologists ("we do a lot of mindfulness, and mind-body work"), a full time
Reiki master/massage therapist, a full-time Yoga therapist, a full-time
nutritionist, and a full time nurse care coordinator. The goal of the PIHTA-CHI
partnership is to
stimulate understanding of integrative primary care medical homes
(PCMH) via a multi-faceted look at the model CHI is creating. PIHTA is
an initiative of the Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care (ACCAHC).
In the most recent issue (#107) of its well-respected international publication, Herbal Gram, the American Botanical Councilpublished
a short paper by NIH NCCIH botanicals lead Craig Hopp, PhD that I
previously characterized as "gutsy." Yet here is an organization closely
tied to the herb industry
publishing a chart in which 15 of 16 NIH-funded research trials fail to
show value from the
herb studied. The article is entitled "Past and Future Research at
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) with
Respect to Botanicals." The past findings and future directions each
called out for perspectives from the broader Integrator community. To
participate, accessed here the article (after signing in at ABC). Take a look. Consider sharing your views!
Policy
-Report
Published through IHPC of Policy Day - with Commitments of Participants - to
Honor US Senator Harkin
-Dismal Outcomes, New
Directions: American Botanical Council Feature on NCCIH's Botanical
Strategy - Past, Present and Future
-Glenn
Sabin: Names, Nomenclature, Trends -
Where We Are Headed?
Economics
-French-German Mixed Results on Homeopathy Costs,
Plus Role(s) in Cancer and Public Health
-Botanical
Sales up for 11th Straight Year: 6.8% to $6.4 Billion in 2014
-Triple Aim to
Trickle Up:
Conventional Medical Students (Finally) Being Taught about Cost, Value, and
Effectiveness
Clinical Care
-Between Qi and the RCT: Lessons on the Road to Certification of Licensed
Acupuncturists at San Francisco General Hospital
-Speed-Dating: A Casey Health Institute Method
for Building a High Performing Interprofessional, Integrative Team
-Integrative
Medicine in Delaware: Report from Beebe Health's Cheyenne Luzader, MS
-Quick Links to
Integrative Medicine News in Medical Systems and Communities: August 2015
Academics
-Teaching
Clinic and National College of Natural Medicine Gains Recognition as a Level 3
PCMH/PCPCH
-Georgetown
and Maryland University of Integrative Health Sign Affiliation Agreement
Professions
-New
American Society of Acupuncturists Looks to Take on National Mantle for the
Profession
-Palmer-Gallup
Survey Finds 57% of Adult Americans Would Use Chiropractic; Meeker Comments
-IAYT
Promotes Code of Ethics for Yoga Therapists
International
-"In Name and Concept: The Global Uptake of the
Movement for Integrative Medicine and Health"
-Global Integrator Round-Up from
Global Advances in Health and Medicine - September 2015
Conferences
-Dr.
Rogers' Prize Announces Speakers for Award Event & Free Public Colloquium:
September 25-26, 2015, Vancouver, BC
-Nordic Integrative Medicine: 8th European Summit
on Integrative Medicine and Health Care, September 26-27, 2015, Copenhagen
-Haramati's
CENTILE - Promoting Resilience in Health Care Professions: October 18-21, 2015,
Georgetown University
-Academy
of Integrative Health and Medicine: People, Planet, Purpose: October 25-29,
2015, San Diego, California
-American
Public Health Association: Integrative, Complementary and Traditional Health
Practices Section: November 2-4, 2015, Chicago
-SUBMISSION
DEADLINE October 2, 2015: Policy, Education and Clinical Proposals for
International Congress in Integrative Medicine and Health, May 17-20, 2016, Las
Vegas
Media
-Golfer
Jordan Spieth Credits Chiropractor, Joins Chiropractic Marketing Effort
-Integrative
Health Strategist Ruth Westreich Backs John Weeks' Integrator for 2015-2017
Some truly wonderful news this month on multiple fronts. In South
Africa we see model inclusion of traditional healers in a public health
effort relative to communicable diseases. In the United States, a
conference focuses on the intersection between integrative health and
medicine and community health – a rich yet under-developed vein of
possibility. Meantime, in India, two wins for the AYUSH legacy again
corporations that were seeking to own the traditional knowledge. Fun,
also, to see the work of the integrative psychiatry network in the
Netherlands. And a tea company appears to be seeking to partner
responsibly in the Amazon. Plus, 77 Quick Links. Enjoy, and do share
your news and stories:
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The business of
credentialing a licensed acupuncturist for practice in a hospital or
health
system can seem like a slam dunk. Somewhere in the chasm between Qi/Chi
and the RCT, the route can take heroic dimensions. This article
describes the remarkable four-year road to certification for licensed
acupuncturists, led by Richard McKinney, MD at San Francisco General
Hospital and, as it turned out, the surrounding public health system.
McKinney and his colleague Hali Hammer, MD have generously provided
information that should be useful to both licensed integrative
practitioners of all kinds, and medical delivery organizations. The
generously included resources on the SFGH MOU with LAcs and the SFGH Standardized Procedure for Licensed Acupuncturists. This article is part of Integrator media support for a
partnership between the Center for Optimal Integration: Creating
Health of the Academic Consortium for
Complementary and Alternative Health Care (ACCAHC) and the National Certification
Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
September 1, 2015 Quick Links to Integrative Medicine News in Medical Systems and Communities: August 2015 This Integrator
feature is a
quick capture of highlights
from stories on the web relative to integrative medicine in the prior
month. Here are 20 involving medical delivery systems and 11 more in
communities. Of particular note are a widely picked up article on
integrative care for the elderly out of Thomas Jefferson University;
publication of research on acupuncture and its potential role in
managing blood pressure, led by John Longhurst, MD at the Susan Samueli
Institute; and a review of whole system research on integrative health
and medicine in systems from Australia's Alan Bensussan, PhD that shows
how little quality information we have on the topic. (Note that Global News Links are
now posted at The Global Integrator Blog for Global Advances in Health and Medicine Journal.)
"We're spending enormous time and effort to get highly-coordinated
processes down to operationalize true collaborative, integrative health." The
comment was made by Casey Health Institute (CHI) co-founder David
Fogel, MD. One unusual method CHI is using to create these teams takes
from unusual sources -- the "discipline" of match-making plus that of
co-counseling. They call it speed-dating and the interprofessional CHI
team practices it every Thursday morning from 9:00-10:00 AM. This
interview with CHI integrative practitioner Nicole Farmer, MD looks at
the methods, benefits, challenges and applications of this strategy and
includes a perspective that the strategy may be of great use even if no
integrative practitioners are involved. The article is offered via a
partnership between CHI and the ACCAHC Project for Integrative Health
and the Triple Aim, the mission of which is to share information on
CHI's effort to model an integrative patient-centered medical home. The Integrator is a CHI-PIHTA media partner.
I
write with the terrific news that integrative health and medicine
strategist Ruth Westreich has stepped up to partner with the Integrator Blog News and Reportsas
a sponsor for a two year period through mid-2017. Westreich has been a
creative marketing and strategic planning director
in the non-for-profit and for profit sectors for over 30 years. She is
co-author of the soon-to-be-published FLASH: Why Creativity Changes
Everything. Her
contributions to the integrative health and medicine field have been
wide-ranging. Her mission: to create new models of care for the whole
person, preventing illness, creating well-being and resilience for
people,
communities and the planet. Energizing Ruth's activity is her
view that to maximize contributions, integrative
health and medicine stakeholders need to get out of their silos and
build a bigger tent. Ruth puts her money and her skin in the game to
connect and collaborate for lasting change. Through
her engagements, she has gained a rare, high level perspective of the
field and its multiple players. I am excited and honored to have Ruth's
investment to buy me the professional time to again make the
best use of the Integrator, the Integrator community for each of you.
Policy
-Research
Priorities: Integrative Consortium (ACCAHC) Finds Decline to 2.27% in NIH
NCCIH Grants to Licensed "CAM" Institutions
-Two Opportunities to Influence: NIH Plan and a National Academy of
Medicine Guidance to the New Administration
-The Intersection of Integrative and
Community Health: Accountable Communities 2015, September 9-10, 2015
-AANP Pushes Federal Legislation (S. 1406) to "Save Access to Compounded
Medications"
-Respond by August
17, 2015: US Veteran's Affairs Seeks Clinical Lead for Integrative Health Employers and
Economics
-American Sustainable Business Council Promotes Action on
Section 2706, the ACA's Non-Discrimination in Healthcare Provision
-Harvard Pilgrim Begins Covering Acupuncture Treatments
in a Step toward "Eastern Harmony"
-Global Wellness Institute Reports 10 Recommendations
from Corporate Summit to "Redefine Workplace Wellness"
-Insurance Giant Aetna Is Hiring a "Chief Mindfulness
Officer"
-Saying Good-Bye to
Traditional Medicare: Useful 3-Page Primer Explains U.S. Medicine's
Shifting Economics Research
-Two Journal Clubs: AIHM's David Riley, MD-led Initiative
and Researcher Joshua Goldenberg, ND's DrJournalClub.com
-Oberg and Rioux: Dialogue on the Systematic Review of Whole-system Naturopathic Medicine in select
Chronic Disease Conditions Clinical Care
-Two Steps Backward for
Integrative Pain Care: Kaiser Patients Not Sharing Who They See, AMA Still Not
Elevating Teams
-Chiropractors Push
Conservative Treatment in Campaign to End Prescription Painkiller Abuse
-Portland Tribune Profiles Naturopathic Physician-Owned
Patient-Centered Medical Home
- Special
to the Integrator: Lori Knutson, Duke Leadership Faculty
Member and Integrative Pioneer, on Working with Health System Values and
Culture Organizations
-Oregon Collaborative for Integrative Medicine (OCIM)
Forms Partnership on Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine Fellowship
-Two New Medical System Members at ACIMH: Beaumont and U
Hospital/Connor
-NABNE and CHI in Partnership with ACCAHC to Explore Integrative
PCMHs
-IHPC Debuts Bi-Weekly CoverMyCare Newsletter on
2706/Non-0Discrimination in Health Care
-AIHM Co-Executive Director Nan Sudak, MD Interviewed in Acupuncture Today
-AANP Partners with Foundation for Care Management to
Provide Naturopathic CME to Multiple Other Professions Integrative
Academics
-First Chiropractic Residents in the Veteran's Health
Administration Share Their Experiences International
- John
Weeks' GAHMJ
Global
Integrator Round-Up for July 2015 Miscellaneous
-Is Your City One of the Most Zen in the United States?
-"Crone & Sage School" Seeks to Create
Sacred, Interprofessional Space for Integrative Practitioners
People
-Integrative & Hospice Strategist and Philanthropist
Ruth Westreich Honored
-Liza Goldblatt-Martha Menard Team Named to Co-Direct
ACCAHC
-AANP's Annual Naturopathic Physician Awards to Snider,
Parker, Schleich and Labriola
This Integrator feature is a
quick capture of highlights
from stories on the web relative to integrative medicine in the prior
month. Here are 26 involving medical delivery systems and 10 more in
communities. Of particular note are: a culture-clash on the import of
Ayurvedic products with perspectives offers by Rob Saper, MD, MPH from
Boston Medical Center; a well-deserved honor to integrative care
strategist and philanthropist Ruth Westreich; and the $1.2-million
center bringing integrative care to a Wyoming delivery organization.
The SciDevNet review offers
a terrific problem set for anyone who is interested in exploring where the
broader integrative health and medicine field might connect with efforts to
properly value traditional medicines throughout the world. On that line, an
over-eager writer made a surprising link in her write up of a talk from the
head of the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention that seemed to suggest the importance of such
integration for global health security. Along this line, kudos to the Italian
authors for their assertion that person-centeredness requires inclusion of
traditional practices. If you did not catch the story about the South African
San people and the respectful relationships in marketing internationally of
their cornerstone herb, this one holds lessons for all of us. Finally, all who
believe that we need to be shifting focus to whole systems research will find
the review by the naturopathic team useful. Do share your news and
stories:.
July 25, 2015
TheAcademy
of Integrative Health and Medicine (AIHM) has an emerging structure
through which to impart some of the wisdom of the field's elders. In
this special article for the Integrator, AIHM writer and staffer Kelsey
Misbrener writes on her experience with AIHM's "Crone and
Sage School." AIHM is "an interprofessional membership and
education organization committed to the transformation of health care on
a global
level." The Crone and Sage School are ceremonies that are part of the
Academy's annual conference. "During these events," writes Misbrener,
the wisdom of the elders is honored as they lead a group of
healers to share in reflection and come together to celebrate our shared
humanity
and holistic heritage." The conference will be held this year on October
25-29 in San Diego, California. The theme is People, Planet, Purpose. The leading "crone" is the godmother of holistic medicine, Gladys McGarey, MD.
Policy
-Turn toward
Darkness: Regular Medicine Takes Hits on Evidence and on Industry Influence
-ABC Publishes Report on the NY Attorney General and His
Campaign Re Supplement Quality
Integrative Care
-Health Affairs
Features Katherine Gergen Barnett, MD on BMC's Integrative Group Visits Program
-Quick Links
to Integrative Medicine News in Medical Systems and Communities: June 2015
-Northwestern Health Sciences University Sells
Woodwinds-Based Integrative Care Center Research
-National College of Natural Medicine Announces
$3-million of NCCIH Research Grants
-Natural Medicine
Journal Integrative Medicine Research Series: Dugald Seeley, ND on Whole
System Research and the Ottawa Integrative Cancer Center
-Acupuncture Group's Response to 2014 Article Questioning
Acupuncture for Chronic Knee Pain Published in JAMA Academics
-AIHM Starts Historic Interprofessional Fellowship with
Tieraona Low Dog, MD as Director
-American College of Lifestyle Medicine Offers Training
in Lifestyle Competencies
-Metabolic Medical Institute Offers Fellowship in
Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine
-AAMC Looks at Mindfulness in Medical Schools: From a Disease to a Health Focus? Professions and Organizations
-Midwifery, Education, Regulation and Association (MERA)
2015 Report and Priorities
-Chanda Plan Foundation Integrative Program Receives
Continued Medicaid Funding in Colorado Philanthropy
-New Jersey's Riverview Medical Center Receives
$10-Million for Integrative Center
- Emerson Ecologics
Announces $25,000 of Grants: Projects of Natural Doctors InternationaI,
Michigan NDs and Maryland University of Integrative Health Benefit International
-John Weeks' GAHMJ Global Integrator Round-Up for
June 2015
-Wellness and Yoga
between War and Work: AIHM's Friedland Promotes the Annual June Event on
Turkish TV People
-Susan Samueli Honored for Her
Visionary Work by UC Irvine System
-Haramati Receives Honorary Doctorate from Maryland
University of Integrative Health
-Mimi Guarneri, MD Listed as Top Female
Physician in Integrative Medicine in Newsmax 100 List
-NCNM Grants
Integrator's John Weeks an Honorary
D.Litt.
If one measures
a professional's integrative health wisdom based on the
total number of integrative visits engaged under one's watch, Lori
Knutson, RN, BSN, HNB-BC stands head and shoulders above the rest of the
field. The former director of the Penny George Instituteguided the development of the nation's most significant inpatient and outpatient initiative in integrative care.
The initiative's processes and outcomes have served as the foundation
for start-up pitches and plans for scores of programs in other systems
around the country. Knutson's present work is as the founder/president of Integrative
Healthcare Solutions LLC. She is also a core faculty member of the Duke Leadership Program in Integrative Healthcare.
This column from Knutson features some of the measured wisdom from her
experience, a sample of what participants in the Duke program will
learn. An honor to present it here.
This
typically monthly Integrator feature is, for June 2015, a
quick capture of highlights
from the stories that flow in daily from various sources relative to
"integrative medicine," 23 in health systems and 10 more in communities.
Great Health Affairs piece on integrative group visits from Katherine
Gergen Barnett, MD. A fascinating strategic investment of that from the
Georges to allow Minnesota Native Americans to learn via JamesGordon's
Center for Mindbody Medicine to provide mind-body services to their
members. Philanthropist Susan Samueli was honored for her investment in
the advancement of IM. Yet another New Jersey center is benefitting from
huge phlanthropic investment. (Note that Global News Links are
now posted at The Global Integrator Blog for Global Advances in Health and Medicine - see related notice here.)
Here are the 75 links this month. A couple of fascinating pieces out of Europe, including perhaps a
first for Europe or North America: plans to regulate practitioners of
Ayurveda. Switzerland is the nation. Unclear yet what exactly is meant
by one of the other categories the country will regulate: practitioners
of “Traditional European Medicine.” Is this Heilpraktiker? One reader
suggested it was Anthroposophic medicine. At least one article has the
translation as “naturopathy.” Insights, anyone? Great story about the
Nigerian monk, Father Abodo, and responsible herbalism. I strongly
recommend it. Fascinating what is
underway! Your guidance to other stories welcome! Enjoy, and share
your news and stories –John Weeks
On July
1, 2015, the Academy
of Integrative Health and Medicine (AIHM) announced
that it is getting into the fellowship business. AIHM
is doing so with a double splash. The interprofessional organization,
founded in 2013 as a
"big tent" for all in integrative health and medicine, plans to
offer the fellowship to members of multiple professions including,
according to
the release, "medical, osteopathic, naturopathic and chiropractic
physicians, dentists, advance practice registered nurses, physician's
assistants, licensed acupuncturists, registered dietitians, pharmacists,
licensed clinical social workers and psychologists." In addition, they
have brought in as director Tieraona Low Dog, MD, the former head of the
fellowship at the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine
who will team with AIHM's director of education Tabatha Parker, ND.
