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Today many men and women are looking beyond conventional medicine alone to keep themselves well. Increasingly their choices include the integration of complementary and alternative approaches which address the mind, body and spirit Located at 245 Fifth Avenue (between 27th and 28th Streets) in New York City, the Center offers the following services:
Special Clinical Programs
The Center can also help design and host Professional Meetings and One-Day Retreats.
Family Medicine Physicians and Nurse Practitioners offer primary care at the Center for adults, infants, children and adolescents. Well-child care includes evaluating your child’s growth and development, physical health, and emotional well-being, keeping in mind the impact that social and environmental influences have on your child’s health. Integrative Family Medicine incorporates nutrition, massage, aromatherapy and other natural therapies for symptom relief and immune system support. Other Center services such as acupuncture and homeopathy may be recommended to support you or your child’s overall health. Click here to make an appointment with a Center primary care practitioner:Benjamin Kligler, MD, CAc; Sapna Chaudhary, DO, CAc; Pamela Hops, MD, CAc; Rachel Nechemia, FNP.
Dr. Martin Ehrlich, Dr. Roberta Lee and Dr. Pamela Yee are also able to use an approach known as Functional Medicine. Functional medicine is an integrative whole person approach that uses biochemical assessment to shed light on subtle triggers of chronic diseases in areas that are normally overlooked in a conventional medical assessment. For instance, functional medicine can identify and characterize the negative health impact from poor gastrointestinal health, excessive environmental exposure to toxins, subtle allergic reactions and extreme nutritional depletion. The information from this assessment is particularly useful in maximizing a successful outcome in complex medical problems such as chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, autoimmune diseases, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, eczema, perimenopausal syndrome and more. Click here to make an appointment with Martin Ehrlich MD, MPH, CAc, Roberta Lee, MD, or Pamela Yee, MD. Integrative gynecological care is a blend of conventional gynecological treatments and other expanded clinically proven healing approaches. Each treatment program is designed for the individual needs of the patient. This holistic orientation to gynecological care combines lifestyle management (nutrition, exercise, stress management skills), western herbs, and natural hormones with other therapeutic approaches offered by Center practitioners including acupuncture, homeopathy, integrative nutrition and mind-body medicine. Click here to make an appointment with Emily Hartzog, MD. Click here to make an appointment with Robert S. Gotlin, DO or Lisa Bartoli, DO. Click here to make an appointment with Sezelle Gereau Haddon, MD. Nutritional assessment is focused on biochemical individuality, personalized nutrigenomics (the interaction between diet and genes), dynamic balance (of all body systems), promotion of organ reserves and health as positive vitality and quality of life. Both conventional and alternative approaches will be used in nutrition therapy to address health and illness and the human capacity for healing. A collaborative approach will be used to determine which nutritional therapies will be utilized to address both short and long term maintenance and therapeutic goals. Decision making will be guided by science and strength of the evidence, and should be shared with the primary physician prior to implementation. Diet modifications, dietary supplements, medicinal foods, functional foods, therapeutic teas, herbal extracts, culinary spices, edible flowers, and essential oils may all be utilized. Biochemical monitoring, body composition analysis, and metabolism assessment are unique tools that can guide the delivery and management of Integrative, Functional, & Holistic Nutrition services. Click here to make an appointment with Mary Beth Augustine, RD, CDN. Approaches include group, couples and individual therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy, short-term counseling, stress management/skills training, wellness and mind-body techniques including relaxation, breathwork, autogenic relaxation training, guided imagery and meditative techniques. These approaches can provide help for depression, anxiety, psychological distress, coping with a chronic illness, stress management, work-personal life balance, wellness counseling, loss and bereavement, life transitions including pregnancy, child-rearing and retirement, and social phobias. Click here to make an appointment with Caroline L. Werner, JD, LMSW, SWC(c). Click here to make an appointment with Arya Nielsen, PhD, LAc or Basia Kielczynska, MS LAc. Why not treat children’s ailments with the safest medicines possible? Homeopathy is the perfect answer to achieving this goal. Prescribed for more than 200 years in Europe, homeopathy uses highly diluted natural substances to restore and build strength within the body’s own healing system, helping it fight the disease by itself. It is a holistic medicine that treats the patient as an individual, taking note of their general and emotional health as well as their current complaints. Due to its restorative effect, homeopathy can help treat a large number of conditions including asthma, allergy, eczema, recurrent ear infection, migraines, insomnia, constipation, and anxiety. Because homeopathy has no side effects, it can be safely used in treating children. Click here to make an appointment with Nathalie Stern, MD. Ms. Ocampo is the Director of the Center’s Holistic Care Program for Patients considering surgery. This program was designed to reduce pre-surgical stress in order to promote a better surgical outcome. Patients who have gone through the program reported they have less pain and discomfort and some have even said that they went home earlier than predicted by their physicians. Ms. Ocampo also offers programs to train nurses, physicians and the community on complementary therapies. She strongly believes that these healing techniques strengthen the body’s innate capacity to heal and thus enhance the body’s response to treatment. Click here to make an appointment with Aurora Ocampo, RN, CS. Click on any of the therapeutic approaches below to learn more about the history and practice of each approach. To learn about other therapeutic approaches not yet offered at the Center, please visit the Complementary and Alternative Therapies section of our web site. General Click here to make an appointment with a Center health care practitioner.
The following traditional and indigenous healing systems are currently offered at the Center. Click on any of the systems to learn more about the history and practice of the healing approach. To learn about other healing systems not yet offered at the Center, please visit the Traditional & Indigenous Healing Systems section of our web site. Ayurveda Click here to make an appointment with a Center traditional and indigenous health care practitioner. Dr. Emily Hartzog is Board Certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She received her medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina and completed her Internship and Residency at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Hartzog spent two years in England with the National Health Service, then returned for five years to the Indian Health Service in New Mexico. She spent the following twelve years in solo practice in the Four Corners region of the Southwest. She enjoyed taking care of a diverse population of patients, including Native Americans, ranchers, and people from the local surrounding communities. Dr. Hartzog is bilingual in English and Spanish and has spent much time in Mexico where she developed and currently operates a clinic for indigenous peoples in Patzcuaro, Michoacan. She highly values her work in cooperation with Traditional Healers and learning about medicinal plants. She is interested in a holistic approach to medicine and individualized care and is looking forward to integrating her clinical expertise with a wide range of healing approaches at the Center. The Continuum Center for Health and Healing and Beth Israel’s Department of Integrative Medicine proudly announce receipt of a generous grant from the Urban Zen Initiative, a program launched and sponsored by internationally acclaimed fashion designer Donna Karan. Under the leadership of Dr. Woodson Merrell, Chairman of the Department of Integrative Medicine and M. Anthony Fisher Director of Integrative Medicine at the Continuum Center for Health and Healing, this initiative at Beth Israel helped to transform 9 Dazian, the medical oncology unit, into an “Optimal Healing Environment.” The Urban Zen grant covered feng shui-inspired physical renovations, yoga therapy, holistic nursing training, a patient navigator to help guide patients through the often complex process of cancer care, and a research study to determine clinical- and cost- effectiveness, which is important in establishing this as a replicable model for cancer care. Questions about the Urban Zen Initiative at Beth Israel may be directed to Esther Sackett, Clinical Program Co-ordinator, Department of Integrative Medicine at 212 844-5023. For more information on this project please visit the Urban Zen website at http://www.urbanzen.org To view a wonderful video on Urban Zen at Beth Israel click here http://www.cancerconsultants.com/video-center Special Clinical Programs Due to the program’s notable success in helping patients feel more comfortable and reduce medication usage during and following surgery, Ms. Ocampo has been educating and training nurses throughout surgical units at the hospital to teach patients breath control techniques and clinical imagery for pain management. According to a survey tool used on the surgical unit, patients who receive the holistic nursing therapies while also taking pain medication report a higher level of pain relief when compared to those patients who received only pain medication. Nurses who provide the services also feel a deepening of their relationship with patients and feel more effective in managing patients’ pain. The Department of Nursing incorporated these therapies into a new nursing care protocol for pain management in the unit. This is a significant accomplishment in CCHH’s ongoing efforts to integrate holistic nursing throughout Beth Israel’s in-patient units. Ms. Ocampo recently was awarded two grants to expand and continue this nursing education model. And thanks to a generous grant from the Balm Foundation, this program is now available at no cost online at www.preparingforyoursurgery.org Basia Kielczynska, MS, LAc, acupuncturist, Aurora Ocampo RN, stress management specialist, and MaryBeth Augustine RD, dietitian/nutritionist, coordinate the program and make referrals to other providers at the Center and in the community. The team works closely with Ilene Richman of the Fertility Awareness Center in Manhattan (www.fertaware.com). Practitioners address issues related to fertility that are often overlooked, such as structural imbalances, imbalances related to stress, diet and lifestyle or the environmental challenges. Click here to make an appointment with Basia Kielczynska, LAc, Aurora Ocampo, RN or MaryBeth Augustine, RD. Leech Therapy The Center for Health and Healing will provide leech therapy in a clinical setting with medical support. The Center treats osteoarthritis in a variety of ways including acupuncture and nutrition counseling, as well conventional medical care with physical therapy. We are the first hospital in the US to incorporate leech therapy for osteoarthritis and are conducting a study on the outcome of leech therapy in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. Introduction The Center is working collaboratively with the Integrative Medicine Department at the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Kliniken Essen-Mitte in Germany where leech studies have been done (see abstract below) and where leech therapy has been offered for years for osteoarthritis of the knee, thumb, hip, and for epicondylitis, as well as for reduction of areas of blood congestion due to injury. The Treatment for Osteoarthritis of the Knee Fees General Requirements for leech therapy At this time we are not treating patients with leech therapy who have the following conditions: Anemia Other exclusions for leech therapy include: Patients who have had recent (within 3 months) knee arthroscopy, surgery or joint injection Leech Study To Make an Appointment Study on leech therapy and osteoarthritis
The Center has created a special offer: a “Sleep Package” comprised of clinically-proven healing approaches and lifestyle interventions. Working with our acupuncturist, nutritionist, mind-body therapist and homeopath in this carefully tailored program can help you regain the resilience, peace of mind and refreshed perspective to face the challenges of the times. We are happy to announce the opening of the Center for health and Healing’s Online Natural Apothecary at http://www.thenaturalapothecary.org Working together with an experienced pharmacist we have chosen a range of products and brands that we recommend and believe offer quality and value. These products are generally safe when used as directed. However, all supplements and botanical medicines should be discussed with your health care provider, especially if you have serious medical conditions, are using prescribed medication, are pregnant or are secheduled to have surgery. Any profit made from the sale of these supplements will support the mission of The Center for health and Healing, quality patient care, education and research in Integrative Medicine. You can call in an order at 800 628-0276 or order online. As in our practice, our approach will be integrative and will include routine medical advice with more holistic solutions to common problems and prevention of travel related illnesses. We recommend that, if possible, you make an appointment for your travel visit at least 4-6 weeks prior to departure to maximize the effectiveness of any immunizations you may need. For further information on any vaccinations you may need for the area you will be traveling to, please consult www.mdtravelhealth.com. Call CCHH at 646-935-2257 to make an appointment for your travel visit. Through an integrative approach the program will focus not only on injury rehabilitation, but will emphasize fitness training programs choreographed to maintain and improve quality of life. Through the implementation of exercise counseling, nutritional guidance and mind/body modalities, one’s maximum potential can be attained. Speciality programs for youth-fitness and weight training, classes for moms to be, and special trainig programs for the arthritic population are just a few of the services offered at We Focus on Fitness. Staff: To make an appointment at the new fitness center, call 646 935-2266. Top |
in restoring health. At the Continuum Center for Health and Healing we stand at the forefront of this evolution in healthcare—helping to develop a new type of medicine that combines the best of both conventional and complementary/alternative therapies. We find patients benefit most when working in partnership with their health care provider—we value our patients’ experience and voice. 
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