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An Integrative Medicine Clinic in a Community Hospital

Larry Scherwitz, PhD, William Stewart, MD, Pamela McHenry, CHT, Claudia Wood, MA, CMT, Lailah Robertson, BA and Michael Cantwell, MD, MPH

The authors are with the Institute for Health and Healing, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, Calif.



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  		FIGURE 1—— Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) services available through the Institute for Health and Healing.

Note. California Pacific Medical Center’s Institute for Health and Healing is a department within a 3-campus community hospital, which is within the 29-hospital Sutter System.

 


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  		FIGURE 2—— Diagnoses of patients at initial visit to the Health and Healing Clinic (by organ system).

 


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  		FIGURE 3—— Patients’ reasons for coming to the Health and Healing Clinic.

 


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  		FIGURE 4—— Change in the severity of patients’ primary symptoms from their initial visit to the Health and Healing Clinic to 6-month follow-up.

Note. Changes are based on a scale of –10 to +10, with positive scores indicating improvement, negative scores worsening, and zero no change in symptoms.

 




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