Whole-Person Care

In 2024, the FMEC launched a Performance Improvement/Continuing Medical Education (PICME) project focused on implementing whole-person care.

The National Academies of Science and Medicine reports (Implementing High-Quality Primary Care and Achieving Whole Health) call for a transformation of primary care to a “whole person,” person-centered, relationship-based model that addresses the social, spiritual, emotional, and behavioral drivers of health. The HOPE Note (HEALING ORIENTED PRACTICES AND ENVIRONMENTS) tools, which have been previously tested and used in practices across the country, can be used to implement whole person care.

This project aims to educate physicians about the benefits, rationale, and implementation of whole person care while assessing physician and patient interest in adopting this approach to health and wellness. Additionally, it aims to identify and evaluate best practices for successfully integrating the Personal Health Inventory (PHI) and HOPE note tools into routine clinic visits.

The following clinics are participating in the FMEC’s Whole-Person Care Collaborative (family medicine residency training clinic unless otherwise noted).

• Asylum Hill Family Medicine Center

• Ballad Health Medical Associates Family Medicine

• Beebe Family Medicine Residency Clinic-Longneck

• Duquesne University Health Services (College health practice)

• Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre Clinic

• Greater Lawrence Family Health Center

• HCA Lewis-Gale Community and Family Medicine

• Hoboken University Family Medicine Residency Program

• Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic (VA clinic)

• Whitney Young Community Health Center (FQHC)

The Whole-Person Care Collaborative is supported by a grant from The Samueli Foundation. If you are interested in supporting FMEC’s work on whole-person care and integrative health, please contact Scott Allen at scott.allen@fmec.net.

For more information, visit https://www.fmec.net/integrative-health-learning-community.