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Integrative, holistic, whole person care – served-up at your doorstep!

January 19, 2023
Integrative, holistic, whole person care – served-up at your doorstep!

The Heals on Wheels (HoW) program at Hennepin Healthcare centers around the concept that to truly provide whole person care to everyone in our community, sometimes we must make the effort to literally meet patients where they are. Barriers to transportation and access to whole-person, integrative care are a seemingly insurmountable problem for many. HoW strives to eliminate these barriers by bringing our integrative team directly into the community, fostering deeper connections between the healthcare teams and the people they serve. (more…)

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June is Men’s Health Month. Join Travis Pagliara, MD, for a discreet virtual medical group visit to discuss men’s issues.

June 9, 2022
June is Men’s Health Month. Join Travis Pagliara, MD, for a discreet virtual medical group visit to discuss men’s issues.

Men can face various health issues over their lifetime. Trying to live a healthy lifestyle means exercise, healthy eating, and good health habits. But this may not always be enough to maintain that lifestyle. A broken bone may send you to the Orthopedic Clinic. Diabetes or heart problems may be in your family history. Arthritis may creep in as you age and send you to a rheumatologist for treatment. And to no fault of your own, you may experience problems with your urologic system.

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“A partner in healing”

September 18, 2018
“A partner in healing”

Integrative Medicine is defined as healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person, including all aspects of lifestyle. It is medical care where the provider partners with the patient in the healing process. Dr. Kara Parker has brought this type of healing to Whittier Clinic.

Four ways that Integrative Medicine benefits patients is by:

  • Addressing the root of the illness, treats the whole person and not just the symptom(s)
  • Taking a partnership approach, the patient becomes a partner in the healing process and they learn to make lifestyle choices that impact their future
  • Addressing chronic issues, bringing the entire body into balance
  • Ensuring personal attention, providers tend to spend more time with the patient as they are looking at the whole picture

The goal of integrative medicine is not to help you get rid of your symptoms, but to address the true cause behind them. The belief is that by combining therapies, patients will not only see results faster, but they will find more lasting results. (more…)

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