
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.
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Whole Person Care in Rural Areas
Rural health is about more than overcoming challenges. It’s about harnessing unique strengths: deep community ties, restorative natural settings, and a culture of resilience. Whole person care empowers patients and clinicians to build health and healing together, honoring the mind, body, and spirit. This guide focuses on strategies to implement whole person care in rural settings.
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Primary Care Personal Health Inventory
The Personal Health Inventory (PHI) is a resource that can help you understand the whole health of the person you are treating. It allows the individual to think about where they are in their health journey. A printable black-and-white version is also available.
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Making Whole Person Cancer Care Routine
Integrative oncology uses complementary and lifestyle therapies to support conventional cancer care, manage side effects of treatments, and help patients heal.
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Helping Cancer Survivors Be Well: An Integrative Oncology Leadership Collaborative Case Study
The Ann B. Barshinger Cancer Institute (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is a community cancer center that delivers hands-on, personalized care and advanced medicine to the Lancaster community. The cancer institute supports the mind, body, and spirit of patients and their families.
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Cancer Health Care Disparities: An Integrative Oncology Leadership Collaborative Case Study
During the Integrative Oncology Leadership Collaborative, the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center team focused on addressing health care disparities among cancer patients by planning group medical visits, beginning work to offer patient resources in Spanish, and working to make integrative medicine accessible to more cancer patients. The team moved toward offering integrative oncology.
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