
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
Restoring Joy in Medicine through Whole Person Team-Based Care
As a practicing family physician in the military health system, Wayne Jonas, MD, used to ignore his own wellbeing to spend more time caring for—and connecting with—his patients. He rarely got enough sleep or took breaks…
Healing the Healer: How to Conquer Burnout through Self-Care
When Wayne B. Jonas, MD, started practicing medicine in 1981, he was the only physician responsible for two entire battalions and their families – about 4,000 people. He learned quickly how to deliver person-centered, relationship-based…
Using the Personal Health Inventory With Your Patients
Uncovering what matters Whole person health has come a long way. When we first developed the Personal Health Inventory (PHI), this tool was revolutionary. Asking patients about what mattered in their lives? Considering what brought…
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:
