Integrative Care Program Services
Practical Support for Successful Implementation
Successfully integrating Healing Touch into a healthcare organization requires more than education alone. The Healing Touch Integrative Care Program team partners with healthcare leaders to provide practical guidance, implementation tools, and ongoing support for developing sustainable Healing Touch services.
The program is led by HTP's Integrative Care Program Manager, JoAnne Veith, RN, HN-BC, HTCP/I. JoAnne brings extensive experience in nursing, healthcare quality and risk management, and hospital-based integrative care. A Healing Touch Certified Practitioner and Instructor, she has directed a hospital-based complementary therapies center, started an integrative care program in a hospital, and currently provides Healing Touch to cancer patients and their families.
Whether your organization is exploring Healing Touch for the first time or expanding an existing program, the Integrative Care Program team offers the clinical experience, education, and implementation support to help you move forward with confidence.
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Partnering With Healthcare Organizations
The Healing Touch Integrative Care Program helps healthcare organizations bring Healing Touch into clinical practice through education, consultation, and implementation support. Whether you’re introducing Healing Touch in a single department or developing an organization-wide initiative, the program provides guidance and resources tailored to your goals.
Our team includes experienced nurses who have developed Healing Touch programs in hospital settings. They bring practical experience to helping organizations establish sustainable services, from preparing healthcare professionals through standardized, competency-based education to supporting leadership with implementation strategies, professional standards, certification pathways, and mentorship. The approach is tailored to each organization’s vision, mission, patient population, and model of care.
Whether you represent a hospital, clinic, hospice, cancer center, rehabilitation facility, or another healthcare organization, the Integrative Care Program offers a structured, flexible approach to developing and sustaining Healing Touch services.
Services and Support
Education
Healing Touch Program provides nurses and healthcare professionals with a structured educational pathway that prepares them to integrate Healing Touch into clinical practice. Through standardized, competency-based classes that provide nursing continuing professional development contact hours, participants develop practical skills in Healing Touch techniques, therapeutic presence, holistic assessment, and professional practice.
Integrative Care Program Implementation Toolkit
The Implementation Toolkit brings together real-world healthcare experience and practical resources to help your organization establish and sustain Healing Touch services. It provides step-by-step guidance and customizable tools to support your team in planning, engaging leadership and stakeholders, preparing staff, implementing services, and building a sustainable program.
Consultation Services
Receive personalized guidance for planning, implementing, expanding, or evaluating a Healing Touch program. Our experienced team includes nurses that have implemented integrative care programs in hospitals. Through their experience, they can help organizations identify opportunities, engage stakeholders, develop implementation strategies, and build long-term sustainability.
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Integrative Care Program Toolkit
A Comprehensive Guide to Integrating Healing Touch into Healthcare
The Healing Touch Integrative Care Program Toolkit is a comprehensive implementation resource designed to help healthcare organizations develop, integrate, and sustain Healing Touch services. Combining step-by-step guidance with customizable tools and practical resources, it offers a distinctive approach to bringing Healing Touch into clinical settings.
Developed collaboratively by Healing Touch Program and Lourdes Lorenz, former Director of Integrative Healthcare at Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, the manual brings together real-world healthcare experience and decades of Healing Touch expertise.
Whether your organization is exploring Healing Touch for the first time or expanding an existing program, the manual provides practical guidance and ready-to-use resources to support each stage of implementation.
The Healing Touch Integrative Care Program Manual & Implementation Toolkit brings together real-world healthcare experience, step-by-step implementation guidance, and an extensive collection of customizable resources in one comprehensive resource. To our knowledge, no other toolkit offers this level of practical support specifically for developing and sustaining Healing Touch programs in healthcare organizations.
Rather than starting from scratch, healthcare leaders can draw on strategies, templates, policies, and practical tools developed through experience implementing Healing Touch in clinical settings.
These resources help organizations navigate the complexities of program development, adapt materials to their own needs, and build a foundation for long-term sustainability.
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