Healwell does remarkable work to bring a holistic, much-needed level of care + training + evidence generation to understand what works and most importantly, what people want in order to reduce pain and suffering affiliated with the course of disease treatment and recovery. As a Board member, it's a humbling experience to work with the dedicated staff and volunteers that bring empowering relief and support to so many on a daily basis. Truly humbling. Whatever we as Board members can do to make their job easier - we should. Go Healwell!
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This amazing non-profit provides much needed integrative health and supportive services to very ill patients. Theough dedicated training of massage therapists, direct service, and ground breaking research, Healwell strives to build a workforce of skilled practitioners to support the needs of a vilnerable population with evidence based interventions.
This is a wonderful organization. The work that is done in the hospitals speaks volumes to the compassion and knowledge of the massage therapists.
Organizations like Healwell are critical in our healthcare environment now, more than ever. Healwell brings attention and focus to each individual in an intentional, thoughtful as well as intelligent and systematic way. In our increasingly fragmented health care environment - Healwell provides and engenders therapeutic and integrative wholeness.
Healwell is unlike any nonprofit cancer charity I have encountered. They bring compassionate therapeutic touch to patients at their most difficult time and they also give me a chance to volunteer to help practictioners learn from patients first-hand. In short, they help me to still see that I am important and useful.
Healwell doesn't tell me how I feel about having cancer-they ask me how I feel about it. I always feel like a person when I interact with Healwell, not an abstract "cancer patient." They are top notch!
Healwell continues to surprise and amaze me in the way it reaches out across disciplines and needs and patient populations to increase comfort, decrease anxiety and simply bring another level of humanity to healthcare. The therapists and staff of Healwell are constantly looking at ways to broaden the conversation around integrative healthcare and the meaningful incorporation of massage therapy as a standard of complete care. Education, service and research come together to make a real difference in the lives of real people when Healwell is at the bedside.
This is a great organization providing massage therapy to people in hospitals. There is much research regarding massage therapy and the benefits it provides to people in the hospital - including lowering blood pressure and lowering heart rate - both I have witnessed.
Healwell changes lives every day. I wish I had more to give them. Their services should be available in every hospital across the country!
Truly exceptional organization with stellar leadership. Delivers real, bottom line results to hospitals and provides comfort and relief to patients with cancer in the most caring approach. Selflessly shares with others to spread their capability and talents. I have served on the board of several nonprofits - few of which make the degree of impact Healwell achieves on a daily basis.
The people at Healwell are passionate, dedicated and committed to their work. What makes them truly special, though, is that they are human beings who are deeply honest about themselves. They embrace personal and professional growth as a key part of their organization, adding even more value to everyone they serve.