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This is the home page for the Society of Hospital and Healthcare System-Based Acupuncturists, a 501(c)3 nonprofit. And the home of its program, The Hospital-based Practice Handbook Project (HHP) for Acupuncturists and Their Hospital Sponsors (Admin).
Information for Hospital and Healthcare System-Based Acupuncturists and Their Hospital Sponsors (program managers, directors, etc)
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.
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.
Page content and links last updated August 2nd, 2024.
In the Spring of 2023, we founded a new 501(c) nonprofit to continue the work we began with the not-for-project program, The Hospital Handbook Project®. This new organization is the Society of Hospital and Healthcare System-Based Acupuncturists (SOHHA). You can learn more about it here.
The above slide represents the work the began under The Hospital Handbook Project (HHP) that new nonprofit organization plans to continue to support and build, especially in its nonprofit educational work.
Our nonprofit will continue mapping the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) for healthcare system-based acupuncturist practice.
This is part of the HHP’s collaborative learning health system model. Mapping “the wilderness” that is healthcare system-based practice includes working with the healthcare system-based acupuncturist community to identify KSAs for different levels of work and the variety of subspecialty work. An accessible example of this is the resources (recordings, Notes pdfs, etc) from our 2023 Inaugural Inpatient Acupuncture Conference. Our Inpatient Acupuncture Workgroup is tasked with continuing to work with this resource and community to identify KSAs. Over time, our nonprofit will continue to build out relevant resources as identified by the community. This includes offering continuing education credits (CEUs/PDAs) for some resources. This work supports our ability to, over time, develop an evidence-based pathway for hospital and healthcare system-based practice certification. We do all this building work by supporting the model of continuous learning and continuous improvement. This model of learning is a tenet of professional practice. Licensed Acupuncturists who have graduated from an ACAHM-accredited program are professional practice clinicians.
The Society of Hospital and Healthcare System-Based Acupuncturists, the 501c3 nonprofit organization, is the go-to resource for hospital and healthcare system-based acupuncturist employment practices and program standards.
We are the home of the healthcare system-based acupuncturist community discussion and collaborative learning platform(s).
Our work is useful to “champions” and change-makers in the integrative health field who are setting up programs or expanding programs in the field at their healthcare facility. We host virtual community discussion and learning spaces, both synchronous and asynchronous for healthcare system-based acupuncturist community to connect and share wisdom; to help avoid the problem of working in silos or “re-inventing the wheel.” Hosting this learning and connecting community space supports sharing the collective wisdom of the community. We encourage each other to improve our knowledge and practice standards together and help each other avoid reinventing the wheel.
The Hospital Handbook Project®(HHP)
The HHP®, founded as a not-for-profit community space for hospital and healthcare system-based acupuncturists, grew (over years) into a collaborative learning system program.
HHP is the nonprofit collaborative learning network for healthcare system-based LAcs and program managers.
The Hospital Handbook Project® is a source of information and learning for hospital and healthcare system practice acupuncturists and their hospital sponsors (advocates, program managers, admin). The HHP is a living resource or "handbook" for our community.
Learn more about
How the HHP came to be in this 2021 presentation article (includes a video and notes with time stamps).
Then, learn about the transition of HHP into a program within a full 501c3 organization in this article covering Fall 2021 - December 2023.
The HHP creates community and space to communicate with each other and thus share the collective wisdom of hospital practitioners. We encourage each other to improve our knowledge and practice standards together and help each other avoid reinventing the wheel.
Sign up for the newsletter and follow our work on our Facebook page and YouTube channel.
You can support this work by
Joining the discussion! Learn more about how to do this in this HHP article.
Choose subscription-based support. We have several options for accessing different HHP resources. Learn more here.
More support options are available on our Support the Project page.
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.
Slide from the 2024 “What is SOHHA?” presentation deck. Please attend an upcoming event for the latest information. Go to the Events page for upcoming events.
Wondering where to start?
Learn about our current nonprofit and story here. As of spring 2023, the HHP is part of the new nonprofit organization, Society of Hospital and Healthcare System-Based Acupuncturists. Learn more about this transition in this blog article.
Learn about our history (2021 and earlier) in this blog article here. Then, learn about the transition of HHP into a program within a full 501c3 organization in this article covering Fall 2021 - December 2023.
Then, begin with the First Steps resource.
Meet Megan, our founder, program and board director (all volunteer)
Megan has volunteered or been employed in the hospital setting intermittently since 2002 in both civilian and military medical centers. She believes community-building activities and service to others are integral to life. She founded the HHP (a not-for-profit program) in the year 2015 and then SOHHA (the 501c3 nonprofit organization) in the year 2023 to help others in the integrative health field connect to each other and to resources that will help them and their integrative health programs be successful.
If you want to support her volunteer work for the HHP and Society of Hospital and Healthcare System-based Acupuncturists, do one or more of these options:
Join the community,
Support her (and other team members) volunteer work (writing blog articles, coordinating resources, etc.) with a ☕cup of coffee or hot cocoa☕. Thank you.
When not volunteering, she is probably with her young family, hopefully adventuring outdoors.
Meet other volunteers and community members at our Meet the Community page.
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.
This webpage last revised or updated 8.02.2024