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Health Care

Policy-related issues of health care and the proliferation of integrative medicine, including examples of best practice models.

• Acupuncture is an “Essential Health Benefit” in California for 2014
  Breaking news: Acupuncture will be considered an “essential health benefit” in California and will be covered by individual and small group health plans starting in 2014.
  
• Can Integrative Medicine Help Our Veterans?
  The scholarship for the LA Veterans Affairs Hospital participants is made possible by a special gifts from the Gerald Oppenheimer Family Foundation .
  
• Managing Stressors for Health Cultivation: Blending East and West for Stress Management
  While stress is an unavoidable aspect of life, successful management of stressors can help increase an individual’s resilience and decrease the damaging effects of stress. The integrative East-West medicine model of care recognizes that stress can offset balance in our systems. Integrative East-West medicine emphasizes the identification of underlying causes, and helps to develop a personalized stress management plan, and incorporates treatment strategies rooted in both Chinese and Western medicine.
  
• A Safe, Cost-Effective, and Affordable Model for the Cultivation of Health
  “By using Western medicine to look at the trees and Chinese medicine to look at the forest, we have a much more comprehensive view of health.” Ka-Kit Hui, M.D., F.A.C.P.
  
• The Future of CAIM Lies in the Research
  A review of some of the major issues and controversies surrounding CAIM research and its regulation.
  
• Integrative Medicine, Can We Truly Integrate Care?
  Is it possible to develop a model of health that incorporates Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM) therapies with conventional treatment?