UC Irvine officials Thursday opened the newest location for the university’s Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute, which they say will expand the institute’s clinical, teaching and research efforts to advance care.
Read moreU.S. health care systems and clinics report reducing costs, improving patient experience and health, while enhancing clinician wellbeing by delivering integrative care, according to a new white paper published by The Family Medicine Education Consortium and Samueli Foundation. The Case for Delivering Whole-Person Health Care details how shifting treatment practices to a whole-person approach that integrates evidence-based conventional medicine, non-drug treatments, and self-care can help achieve far-reaching systemic improvements.
Read moreUC Irvine has created a photo blog to document the progress from the ground breaking to the opening of the new Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences and the Sue & Bill Gross Nursing & Health Sciences Hall. Updated monthly, the blog includes photographs, as well as a live webcam.
Read moreAn expanded set of resources is now available to help patients and clinicians interested in an integrative health approach to care. Housed on DrWayneJonas.com’s website, the portal is search-friendly and offers free access to all resources.
Read moreDr. Wayne Jonas, Executive Director, Samueli Foundation Integrative Health Programs has expanded availability of his weekly newsletter to help health care practitioners stay on top of the latest news and research on integrative health.
Read moreWhen Gloria Huerta first walked into the weight-management clinic at the UCI Family Health Center in Santa Ana about six months ago, she was struggling with diabetes, depression and knee pain. The 57-year-old homemaker, who does not have health insurance, said her doctor told her that unless she made a few lifestyle changes, she would need to take insulin for the rest of her life.
Read moreProviders need the evidence behind the most commonly used complementary and integrative medicine and self-care approaches. The guide entitled “Developing an Integrative Health Model: Who, What, and How” gives concrete tips on how to integrate an expanded set of tools into primary care practices. The goal is to help physicians and other health care providers incorporate self-care and complementary approaches into their mainstream practices as they move toward person-centered, integrative health for improving patient outcomes and satisfaction while delivering a better quality of care.
Read more“President Trump officially made opioid addiction a public health emergency last week. While some of the solutions he outlined will be helpful, his focus on restricting access to legitimately and appropriately prescribed opioids is the wrong approach. Many people call the current crisis an opioid epidemic. But what we really have is a chronic pain mismanagement problem.”
Read moreA gift from the Samueli Foundation will name the new UC Irvine Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences, the first university-based health sciences enterprise to incorporate integrative health research, teaching and patient care across its schools and programs.
Read moreThe new website DrWayneJonas.com empowers patients and doctors by providing solutions to enhance health, prevent disease, and relieve chronic pain.
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