About Us

As part of Greenwich Hospital’s long tradition of healing the whole person, the hospital started offering integrative medicine services to hospitalized patients starting in 2001. The response was phenomenal. Patients healed more quickly when they addressed their stress, learned to relax, and had nutritional and emotional support as part of their recuperation process.

What is Integrative Medicine?

Integrative Medicine is a holistic, whole-person approach to healthcare designed to treat the person, not just the disease. The outcome is seen in enhanced wellness and optimized function, even when a patient is faced with the challenges of a chronic illness.

Integrative Medicine combines, or integrates, many modalities including physiology, biochemistry, nutrition, exercise, environment, emotions, attitudes, beliefs, social relationships, spirituality and mind-body interventions such as biofeedback.

Our Approach

In addition to Integrative Medicine, we also value the principles of Functional Medicine, which focuses on preventing disease and resolving underlying causes of chronic illness instead of exclusively suppressing symptoms. Functional Medicine is science-based and looks at biochemical individuality and variations in metabolic function as well as the balance of internal and external factors that affect vitality and health.

While we try to keep interventions as natural as possible, we recognize that there are times when conventional medical care is a necessary step for a patient’s improved health. In addition, Greenwich Hospital’s full range of diagnostic and treatment services are easily accessible, along with those of the Yale Health System.

The following links provide additional information.
American Holistic Medical Association
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine