Integrative Wellness

The Spectrum of Integrative Wellness Programs

Care Family for the Caregiver
Provides information, resources and tools to help our members and others manage the challenges of caregiving and encourage self-care.

Dignified Decisions – End of Life Care Program
Facilitates informed decisions by members, their families and physicians at a time of advanced illness while assuring personal dignity and a good quality of life.

Healthy Living with Chronic Conditions
Educates and empowers people living with chronic disease conditions of many types to better manage their overall health and well-being.

Hospital Visitation Program
Recruits and trains volunteers who offer comfort and support to hospitalized HIP members to nurture the spirit and foster healing.

Personal Health Improvement Program (PHIP)
Provides the tools – through lectures, group exercises, and home learning – to combat stress, pain or discomfort and embrace a healthier lifestyle.

Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine
Cardiac Wellness Program
Offers one of the many clinical programs of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine (formerly the Mind/Body Medical Institute) that achieve comprehensive lifestyle modification objectives with documented success rates in reducing cardiovascular and other health risks and improving quality of life among participants. Developed by Herbert Benson M.D. of Harvard Medical School, these programs encourage participants to manage the cycle of stress, anxiety and physical tension that often drive the symptoms of disease.

Spirituality and Medicine
Offers continuing educational opportunities including the Carl E. Flemister Spirituality and Medicine Symposium, which is held in partnership with the New York Academy of Medicine and offers Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits.