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IHN program launched
at Town Hall, January 28, 2008. In attendance - Supervisor
Frank Petrone and wife Pat (shown standing), Ester Bivona,
Rhonda Sherpardson and other town employees (seated left
to right).
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On Monday, January 28, 2008, “Stress:
Friend or Foe” was
the first lecture in
a series
of free educational programs focusing on preventive
health care launched at Huntington
Town Hall. Created by the Integrative Health
Network (IHN), a partnership program with
Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition’s“Prevention
Is The Cure” campaign, this free
ongoing series will feature a diverse group of
health care practitioners whose goal is to reach
out through lectures, demonstrations and media
to educate the community toward a more integrated
approach to health and well-being. This
well-attended discussion led by IHN committee
members Miriam Goldstein, Dr. Sal Masi and
Joanne Christophers, focused on an integrative
approach to health care.
The IHN mission states that “health care
should be guided by one important criterion, to
offer the most effective services to the patient
that will optimize their ability to achieve good
health. As each person is an individual with differing
needs and responses to care, diversity
among coordinated practitioners is the best
medicine. The Integrative Health Network can
offer patients choices that include all types of
health services, allowing a group of practitioners
to work together, as a team of specialists, to
guide the patient toward health and healing.
Both allopathic and alternative practitioners
combine their expertise in a complementary
effort so patients can receive the best possible
care.”
Miriam Goldstein, Licensed Massage
Therapist and Hypnosis Consultant agrees,“My
practice is concerned with the whole person through the
benefits offered by Therapeutic Touch and Hypnosis and a
unique form of
Guided Self Hypnosis called 7th Path. It is
with great enthusiasm and commitment that I
support the Integrative Health Network’s
Paradigm within my Mind-Body practice at
Stone to Water Therapeutics by partnering with
medical and complimentary practitioners on
behalf of our clients.”
Dr. Sal Masi, Natural Care Chiropractic,
recognizes that “In my ten years of practice my
most successful cases have been those that used
an integrative approach to care. It is in the best
interest of the patient to utilize a team of practitioners
to insure proper healing and health.”
“Research shows that benefits of massage may
include enhancing the immune system, reducing
anxiety, increasing physical mobility and reducing
pain through increased circulation, all of
which would help clients deal with a myriad of
medical problems,” states Joanne
Christophers, B.S.N., R.N., Holistic Nurse,
Diplomat of Asian Bodywork Therapy
NCCAOM.
Huntington Town Supervisor Frank P. Petrone
commended Integrative Health Network. “This
program seems to be a natural fit that will assist
and encourage people to make important decisions
about the path their healthcare should follow.
Through HBCAC’s Prevention Is The Cure
partnership with the Integrative Health
Network, I feel confident that these educational
programs will provide vitally important information
to the public. We are happy to be a part
of it.”
The Integrative Health Network’s lecture
series will focus on facilitating education and
dialogue among all health care disciplines,
with the patient’s well-being as our utmost
concern. For more information on the IHN
lecture schedule, contact HBCAC at (631) 547-
1518 or visit www.preventionisthecure.org.
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HBCAC • 746 New
York Ave, Huntington, NY 11743 • 631.547-1518 • fax 631-547-1520
Website: www.hbcac.org • email: friends@hbcac.org |
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