Reiki In Hospitals and Clinics
Modern medicine considers Reiki Therapy to be in many categories including Holistic Medicine, Complimentary or Alternative Therapy, Integrative Medicine, and Bio-field Therapy. Reiki is recognized nationwide as an energy medicine by the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). It is offered by several prestigious hospitals across the country including: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital (N.Y.), Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (Boston, MA), Yale-New Haven Hospital (New Haven, CT), Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System (Baltimore, MD), M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, TX), George Washington University Hospital (Washington, D.C.), California Pacific Medical Center (San Francisco, CA) and more. This is a brief list of some of the hospitals and clinics offering Reiki Therapy. More info can be found at www.centerforreikiresearch.org
I manage a holistic women’s center, St. Luke’s Women’s Care, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. St. Luke’s Hospital is a member of a large hospital system, Iowa Health System. We are considered rural and conservative. In l994 Women’s Care opened a new facility located in a medical office plaza connected to St. Luke’s Hospital.