About The Center for Integrative Medicine at UCH

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL
THE CENTER FOR
INTEGRATIVE
MEDICINE
Colorado’s premier
provider of safe,
comprehensive and
coordinated
complementary
and alternative
medicine therapy
SERVICES PROVIDED:
Acupuncture and TCM
Chiropractic
Health and Wellness Visit
Herb and Supplement Consult
Massage Therapy
Mind/Body Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Spiritual Counseling
Integrative Medicine: THE BEST ELEMENTS
OF HEALTH CARE FOR YOUR PATIENTS
Integrative medicine is the combination and coordination of complEmentary and
alternative medicine (CAM) with conventional care. It treats the entire person and defines
health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being. By blending the best elements
of CAM therapies and self-care strategies with the care you provide, The Center for Integrative
Medicine offers a safe, conservative and holistic approach to health care. A wide variety of
patients — ranging from those with serious diseases to healthy patients who want to prevent disease
and maintain wellness — may benefit from this integrative approach.
CONVENTIONAL (western)
medicine provided by physicians
is integral to a patient’s overall
wellness and can help treat a
variety of conditions. Integrating
CAM and lifestyle modification
into the plan of care may enhance
the efficacy of conventional
Western approaches.
INTEGRATIVE
medicine
An Optimized Approach
to PERSONAL WELLNESS
The wellness and healing of the whole person — mind, body
and spirit — is at the core of the vision and philosophy of
The Center for Integrative Medicine at University of Colorado
Hospital. The conventional Western care you provide your
patients will be augmented through the use of evidencebased CAM therapies and counseling on lifestyle modification.
By creating personalized treatment plans and combining CAM
therapy, self-care strategies and Western medicine, a wide
variety of patients — with a wide variety of conditions — may
be treated and helped.
The Center for Integrative Medicine’s goal is to provide
patients with truly safe, comprehensive and effective CAM
therapy. Practitioners will work with you and other health
care providers to ensure that therapy provided at The Center
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
for Integrative Medicine does not interfere or conflict with
refers to the practice of seeking
and using therapies not historically
found in U.S. hospitals or taught
in U.S. medical schools, such
as acupuncture, massage,
chiropractic, yoga and use of herbal
supplements. The term “alternative
medicine” implies that these
therapies are used in place of
conventional Western care.
any of the treatments already prescribed to the patient. To
best promote healing and to actively engage patients in their
own health care, patients are encouraged to follow lifestylechange approaches and self-care regimens.
What Makes
the center Unique?
The Center for Integrative Medicine is the first of its kind in the
region. Housed within the world-class University of Colorado
Hospital, services go beyond stand-alone complementary and
alternative medicine therapies. Finding the correct balance
of evidence-based CAM therapies, lifestyle changes and
conventional treatments is the clinical goal for each patient.
The Center for Integrative Medicine’s board-certified
physicians and their colleagues develop and supervise
COMPLEMENTARY
medicine is the practice of using
alternative medicine therapies in
addition to or to complement
traditional conventional care. In the
community, however, CAM therapies
are rarely coordinated with the
conventional care that the patient
is receiving.
treatment plans in coordination with you and the patient’s
other health care providers. Professional practitioners work
in concert with one another in order to provide the safest
and most effective health care possible. The Center for
Integrative Medicine’s practical and conservative approach
to CAM therapy saves your patients money, while enabling
them to take responsibility for their health and providing
them the best chance for successful results.
“The therapies offered
at The Center for
Integrative Medicine
complement and
enhance the regimen
I have prescribed, as
well as the overall
Integrative
Medicine benefits
you and your
patients
health of my patients.”
Integrative medicine can help nearly everyone.
The Center for Integrative Medicine is designed
By offering a wide range of therapies and
to augment the care that you provide. While
lifestyle strategies, The Center for Integrative
CAM therapies help a variety of conditions, they
Medicine provides positive and effective
should never replace the treatment provided by
treatment for many conditions.
a physician.
Conditions that can benefit from
integrative medicine include:
ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION
CANCER
Chronic Pain
Fatigue and Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome
Fibromyalgia
Headaches
Infertility/women’s Health
Overall Wellness/Prevention
Deb Gothard
Nurse practitioneR
University of Colorado Hospital
“I feel more confident
“Sometimes there are
that my patients who
complex patients with
are adding alternative
multiple medical
therapies to their
problems who are not
treatment regimen
feeling well, despite
are doing so in a safe
treatment. The Center
and above-the-board
for Integrative
fashion.”
Medicine can be just
Dr. Christina Finlayson
the answer.”
Surgical Oncologist and Medical
Director of the Dianne O’Connor
Dr. Adele Sykes
Thompson Breast Center at
Capitol Hill Internal Medicine
University of Colorado Hospital
The Center for Integrative Medicine offers
Integrative Medicine can help both patients and
physician-supervised CAM therapy you can
physicians. Whether you’re struggling to find
trust. Today, almost 50% of adults in the U.S.
effective treatment for a patient’s complex
seek CAM therapy. With CAM therapy’s rising
condition, or steering a curious patient in the
popularity, a vast number of new community
right direction, The Center for Integrative
clinics have opened. While these clinics do
Medicine can provide solutions that both you
offer CAM therapy, it is difficult to know the
and your patients can trust.
qualifications and intentions of the practitioners
who prescribe and provide treatment. It is rare
to find a clinic that is as devoted to safe,
conservative and comprehensive therapy as
The Center for Integrative Medicine. It is also
uncommon to find CAM centers in the
community that are willing to fully coordinate
the patient treatment they provide with you.
All of the therapies provided at The Center for
Integrative Medicine are evidence based and
administered by certified practitioners.
Furthermore, because the care is physician
supervised, CAM therapy is never overused
or misused.
ALMOST
50% OF ADULTS
IN THE U.S. SEEK
CAM THERAPY
a staff that complements your care
our medical
DIRECTOR
The Center for Integrative Medicine’s medical
director, Dr. Lisa Corbin, is board certified in internal
medicine. In 2001, she began directing The Center
for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Corbin’s focus on CAM
therapy and personal wellness is driven by her desire
to provide knowledgeable advice to patients and to
empower them to take responsibility for their health.
Dr. Corbin works with your patients in a consultative
capacity. She never assumes primary care of a
patient, and the therapies she recommends are meant
to augment, not replace, your prescribed treatments.
Dr. LISA CORBIN
our certified staff
All practitioners at The Center for Integrative Medicine are certified to the highest level and
are experienced providers of CAM therapy. Furthermore, the entire staff works together to
ensure that they provide patients with the most productive, efficient and safe care possible.
A Complement to You
After your patients’ first visit, Dr. Corbin will establish communication with you through a
personal letter. The Center for Integrative Medicine’s staff will maintain this communication
for as long as treatment is recommended and provided. This ensures that they can work with
you to complement the treatments you provide.
QUALITY SERVICE
AT AN AFFORDABLE PRICE
INSURANCE
AND PAYMENT
While CAM therapies can be expensive, The
Many services, including physician consultations,
Center for Integrative Medicine provides your
psychological counseling and chiropractic therapy,
patients the best service for their dollar. Not only
are often covered by major health insurance
are prices comparable with the rates found at
plans. In the instances when services are
community clinics, but a conservative plan of care
covered and University of Colorado Hospital is a
will save patients money in the long run. Instead
contracted provider, The Center for Integrative
of overusing or continuing ineffective treatment,
Medicine will work with your patients to obtain
practitioners at The Center for Integrative
necessary authorization from their insurance
Medicine may actually dissuade patients from any
companies. If services are not covered by
unnecessary, unsafe and expensive CAM therapies
insurance, patients will be notified of any charges
they may have been considering. Additionally,
in advance of their appointments. Cash, check,
our focus on self-care techniques and lifestyle
MasterCard, Visa or Discover are accepted as
modification decreases patients’ need for long
methods of payment. Payment for all services is
term CAM therapy use.
due at the time services are received.
IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS
Schedule an Appointment
If you or your patient have general questions
Your patients can schedule appointments at
about the care or services received at The
The Center for Integrative Medicine by calling
Center for Integrative Medicine, please call
720.848.1090. Appointments can be made
720.848.1090. If it is after hours please leave a
Monday through Friday, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm, with
message. We will typically be able to return your
limited evening availability. If you would like to
call the next business day.
provide us with information prior to a patient’s
visit (encouraged), please fax a consult and/or
relevant records to 720.848.1277.
MAP
The Center for Integrative Medicine is located on the 5th floor of the Anschutz Outpatient Pavilion.
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By making this information available, the University of Colorado Hospital and The Center for
Integrative Medicine do not promise or guarantee the effectiveness of integrative therapy.
THE CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL
ANSCHUTZ MEDICAL CAMPUS
ANSCHUTZ OUTPATIENT PAVILION
1635 Aurora Court, MS F743
Fifth Floor, Suite 5501
Aurora, Colorado 80045
P: 720.848.1090 | F: 720.848.1277
www.uch.edu/integrativemed