Whole Person Care
Healing Works Foundation’s mission is to make whole person, integrative care regular and routine.
Led by Dr. Wayne Jonas, HWF partners with a diverse group of wellbeing innovators. It creates platforms, processes, programs, tools and services to support and magnify insights and innovations in healing and whole person care principally in primary care and oncology.
Healing Works Foundation Blog
How Do We Know When Healing Is Happening?
Welcome to the latest essay in our “On Healing” series, where Dr. Wayne Jonas explores whole person care and the deeper dimensions of healing. He came in carrying years of failure. A man with chronic…
Smith Center for Healing and the Arts Brings Whole Person Care to Cancer
If you care for people living with cancer, you know this moment well. A patient sits across from you and the conversation that really needs to happen — about fear, or meaning, or the family…
Trust and Transformation in Health Care
Nearly everyone who met my wife Susan trusted her. Toward the end of her life, she described what she believed to be the three key factors to establishing trust. Number one is cultivating a genuine…
Latest Resource
Case Study: Community Health System Frederick Health Makes Whole Person Cancer Care Routine
Most people with cancer receive cancer care in community settings, not academic medical centers. This case study highlights how a not-for-profit health system was able was able to promote healing and wellbeing while treating cancer by making integrative services a routine part of cancer care.
CME Courses Available at No Cost
Integrative Approaches to Chronic Pain Management Course
Learn Better Strategies For Treating Your Patients With Chronic Pain
Introducing Whole Person Care Into Your Practice
Clinician as Healer in Primary Care
Whole Person Cancer Care Course
Clinician as Healer
Patient Assessment Tool for Your Practice
The personal health inventory is a tool to help you deliver whole person care. It is a PRO tool that provides a better understanding of your patient and the internal and external influences on their health. To make it easy for your practice, we have three formats available to be used in primary care or oncology:
