The Essential Healthcare Network (EHN) is a community of educated, experienced practitioners of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (AOM). EHN is dedicated to:

1) Providing patients with safe, high-quality, holistic, and compassionate Acupuncture and Oriental Medical services, and

2) Ensuring the best, most comprehensive patient care in close collaboration with practitioners of other medical and health care professions.

What is Essential Healthcare, and what are its benefits?

• Essential Healthcare works in harmony with the self-healing abilities of the integrated body-mind-spirit. By activating self-healing mechanisms, Essential Healthcare promotes long-term well-being and life empowerment.
  
  
• Essential Healthcare both treats illness and injury, and restores and promotes core vitality. Essential Healthcare addresses the full spectrum from disease to optimal health.
  
  
• Essential Healthcare prefers working with each patient’s potential for self-healing over invasive procedures that risk unbalancing the entire organism. Essential Health care is safe, holistic, and supportive.

Why are Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine considered “Essential Healthcare”?

• In 1997, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a consensus report that concluded:
  • "The data in support of acupuncture are as strong as those for many accepted Western Medical therapies…There is sufficient evidence of acupuncture's value to expand its use into conventional medicine and to encourage further studies of its physiology and clinical value" (NIH 1997).
  
  
• "One of the advantages of acupuncture is that the incidence of adverse effects is substantially lower than that of many drugs or other accepted medical procedures used for the same conditions" (NIH 1997).

Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine are modalities uniquely suited to the provision of Essential Healthcare, because they treat injury and illness by activating self-healing abilities and promoting vitality, without the risks of more invasive procedures.

How do EHN Members provide “Essential Healthcare”?
EHN Member Providers are Licensed Acupuncturists who have obtained specialized training above and beyond the basic requirements of the State of California. We offer integrative medical care and have the training and experience to collaborate with Western medical practitioners to help make the best decisions and offer the best direction, whether you work with one of us or in combination other healthcare providers.

EHN Member Providers people to get and stay healthy through Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, preventive health care and education, exercise prescription and instruction, diet and lifestyle counseling, and support for each patient on their life path. We provide a safe place for healing, and the time to listen and care. Our treatments, tools, education and support help to relieve symptoms as we work toward healing root causes, preventing future illness, and restoring full health and vitality.

EHN is committed to the following principles:
To provide integrative healthcare and education. By knowing clearly the strengths and abilities of AOM as well as of other forms of medicine, we provide education and coordination of care to our patients in accordance with the highest standards of contemporary medicine.

To facilitate healing. By honoring the wisdom of the body and nature, balance and wholeness are restored and preserved.

To optimize health and well being. By striving for optimal health, the greatest potential of well being is achieved.

To enhance self-awareness. By listening to our spirit, the authentic self is revealed.

To create a sacred space. By witnessing the individual process without judgment, we trust, honor, and hold the light through the darkness.

To build a community of healers. By trusting our own way of knowing, we heal ourselves. In healing ourselves we heal our families, our communities, and our world.

Contact an EHN Member Provider
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