ABOUT THE PROJECT

What is the Hospital Handbook Project?

Welcome! This website is home to the Hospital-practice Handbook Project (HHP) for Acupuncturists and their Hospital Sponsors (Administrators).

HHP is the nonprofit collaborative learning network for healthcare system-based LAcs and program managers. We are the home of the healthcare system-based acupuncturist community network.

The information at the HHP is also useful to “champions” and change-makers in the integrative health field who are setting up programs or expanding programs at their healthcare facility. The HHP, at its core, creates space for hospital-based acupuncturists to connect and share wisdom, to help avoid the problem of working in silos or “re-inventing the wheel”. From this wisdom-sharing and discussion come ideas for specific projects, like the Data Project or the Webinar Series. And in a crisis, this discussion space allows us to pivot quickly to meet the needs of the community. Examples of this in 2020 include the HHP Community Discussion sessions on Pandemic Prep & Response and the Telehealth Roundtable Event. All projects, to be successful, need support in funding, from the basics of operating costs (website, internet, etc) to specific project costs and support in people and organizations.

 As of April 1st, 2023, The Hospital Handbook Project for Acupuncturists and Their Hospital Sponsors is a program of the Society of Hospital & Healthcare System-based Acupuncturists, a nonprofit organization based in the U.S.A.

Videos in the HHP “Our Projects” playlist include

• What is the HHP? (3-minute synopsis), fall 2021

• Introducing the HHP, a Feb 2021 presentation

• Building this Resource, (3-minute video), from May 2017.

• Why this Project? a comprehensive 4-minute video about why I started this work and its early vision and mission, from May 2017.

HHP Vision and Goals

Interested in why I founded this Project?  

Hear my story in Why This Project?  (video)

• Subscribe to the Newsletter and Email List.

• Follow us on the public Facebook page and a YouTube Channel.

• Consider joining the HHP discussion platform

• Check out our YouTube Playlist to learn more about our Projects.

• Tune in to our Lunchbreak Listens Playlist to follow a growing list of Integrative Medicine background learning recommendations.

The HHP is a community first.

We put out published resources when we can, but it is a discussion space first.

The published resources include our blog(s). But, have you seen the blog? The blog was our first published resource. It is always growing. The main blog is still living over at its original location on Google and I am slowly moving it to this new website. So, check it out! We share information about events and employment opportunities in the community through the new discussion platform and the monthly newsletter.

The creation and support of this community of hospital-practice acupuncturists are essential to what the HHP aims to support:

1.  Create a Community

2.  Create a source of information.  Get this information to those who need it.

3.  Discuss standards of profession and professional practice, particularly as it pertains to Licensed Acupuncturists/East Asian Medicine Practitioners working in the hospital/medical center setting.

I.  Create a Community. 

Develop a community of hospital practice Licensed Acupuncturists. 

• Share our wisdom.

• Help each other avoid "re-inventing the wheel" each time a new clinic is set up or an Acupuncturist is hired at a center for the first time or for each L.Ac. starting hospital practice. This community is also useful for each current hospital-practice L.Ac. who might be venturing into different patient population or type of clinic.

• Encourage each other.

• Increase and improve our knowledge and practice standards together.

II.  Create a source of information.  Get this information to those who need it.

Primary Audience is:

• Hospital practice L.Ac.s

• The hospital administration that supports those L.Ac.s, in particular the Hospital Sponsor.

Secondary Audience is:

• Students, prospective practitioners, and educators.

  • I didn’t start out with this group in mind, but over time I received a lot of requests for this group. In response, I have created the First Steps resources. First Steps is a compilation of the evergreen advice I give to students and prospective practitioners interested in hospital-based practice. It is an e-book and workbook and an online resource that is accessible at any time. For specific situations or deeper dives, I recommend scheduling a consultation. But, to get started, the First Steps is the most recommended resource.

How:

• This website

  • the HHP discussion platform

  • Blogposts and pdfs

  • Online resources, based on community feedback

    • Issues in Hospital-based Practice Webinar Series

    • The Pain Scale: Using a Validated Tool in Your Clinical Practice

    • Calculating Morphine Equivalent Dose for Non-prescribers: A Medication Review Standard

    • The New Hospital Employee, year 0 - 5+

  • Events

• Other projects identified by the community

III.  Discuss standards of the profession and professional practice

Create a forum for discussing those standards of good practice to develop our professional standards as a whole and enhance our own practice.

• the new HHP discussion platform

• Webinar Series

• Events

How can You Support this Community-building Work?

Choose a way to help us build this work and see the latest updates by:

• subscribing to our email and newsletter list,

• "like" our Facebook page

• subscribe to our channel

• fuel the work with direct donations. Donate $5 or more today.

• consider supporting via one of our subscription-based support & content access options

Thank you.

The Hospital Handbook Project for Acupuncturists and Their Hospital Sponsors is a program of the Society of Hospital & Healthcare System-based Acupuncturists, a nonprofit organization based in the U.S.A.

Want to be a Sponsor? 

Review our “sponsorships” page and send me a message via our contact page. Thank you.