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Fashion icon Donna Karan launches Urban Zen Integrative Therapy program at UCLA

When world-renowned fashion designer Donna Karan's husband, Stephan Weiss, died of lung cancer in 2001, she was sad that no place in a hospital in New York, where yoga and other meditative therapies offer to relieve his suffering. The experience galvanized her into action. "A lot of missed Stephen health care," says Karan. "He had the knowledge of traditional western medicine. But they also have treatment, which is accessible only from the heart by the Spirit need. From my frustration of even the best medical treatment facility,UGG Delaine Tall Boots was born as a liability. I am determined to do what I can get a new model for wellness and patient care in hospitals and to address the needs of patients and loved those employees who are on their way with them. " Karan is a combination of Oriental Medicine to find efficient and evolved into its own program, that hospitals across the country. Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, part of the health at UCLA, is the first hospital on the West Coast, to adopt the program. In collaboration with Karan Urban Zen Foundation, the UCLA Health System offers a unique oriental treatment program designed to improve patient care. The program includes: Training doctors, nurses and other hospital staff members in the complex processes that optimal healing. The introduction of Eastern forms of healing patients, including yoga therapy (breathing exercise in bed and guided meditation), Reiki (Japanese energy vibration therapy to facilitate a light touch, or light from the body that the human biofield balances) Essential Oil therapy, nutrition and care contemplative. "UCLA Health System has a long tradition of holistic integration of technology with traditional health care," said Dr.UGG jimmy choo Boots David Feinberg, president of the UCLA medical system, director of the UCLA Hospital System and associate vice chancellor of health sciences. "We are grateful to Ms. Karan to their vision of holistic healing of our patients at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center to bring. It fits perfectly in our mission to treat the whole patient, not just for certain diseases. We feel fortunate to work with Donna on her vision of combining the best of western medicine with eastern healing therapy methods that improve patient health and wellbeing. " "While mainstream science has miraculous advances in the control and eradication of diseases," says Karan, "an important role in promoting recovery emotional and spiritual well being of the patient, along with medical professionals and loved ones who care for them, often neglected . Urban Zen integrated treatment program is to learn to provide integration and therapists in hospitals, ambulatory care, support groups and private practices that blend the best of Eastern and Western medicine. " UCLA Center for East-West Medicine currently offers traditional Chinese medicine such as acupuncture, acupressure and herbal medicine, on an outpatient basis. UCLA is the realization Research Center, teaches mindfulness - moment by moment process of actively and openly observing their physical, mental and emotional experiences. Urban Zen demand treatment programs at UCLA medical system is designed so that to the next level. "During this training,UGG Tassel Boots the health of the UCLA Health are trained in five treatments: Yoga Therapy, Reiki, essential oil therapy, nutrition and care for the contemplative," said Gillian Cilibrasi, Urban Zen is the program director. "Each method is introduced separately, and then teach the students how the procedures for dealing with the symptoms to integrate the patient or client experiences such as pain, anxiety, nausea, insomnia, constipation and fatigue. Since the learned, students begin their practical experience during their clinical rotation time, work with patients, caregivers and loved ones. " "This program" integrative medicine "covers topics such as pain, nausea, relaxation and sleep," said Ellen Wilson, director of treatment at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. "There is basically bid approaches, including yoga, aromatherapy, Reiki and meditation. The concept is that existing staff are trained in techniques that Urban Zen mediators and then to provide these services to patients on request or where recommended in patients' carers'. Training for the first group of 30 experts at UCLA, including doctors, nurses, therapists, social workers and other caregivers,ugg jimmy choo boots began in September, Wilson said, and the program will be prepared to provide these services to patients in December this year . "UCLA, new teams of 50 employees to train at the moment, with the aim to eventually have 250 to 300 trained people available in the entire health care in both inpatient and outpatient areas," said Wilson. "Patients with cancer, the first group that offers holistic healing at UCLA to receive," said Feinberg. "With more than 1.5 million Americans diagnosed with cancer each year, there are many people and families who could benefit from an approach to the treatment of the patient and his family includes - and not just a disease." UCLA Health System is dedicated to the Urban Zen at UCLA to support, but also try to REACH philanthropic donations to expand. "This additional support will be UCLA is able to extend the program for hospitalized patients in the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA, Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA and Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital accelerate, "Feinberg said.tassel boots

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