{"id":154927,"date":"2019-10-01T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&p=154927"},"modified":"2019-10-07T12:15:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T16:15:40","slug":"va-brings-whole-health-workshop-uconn-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/10\/va-brings-whole-health-workshop-uconn-health\/","title":{"rendered":"VA Brings \u2018Whole Health\u2019 Workshop to UConn Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Department of Veterans Affairs leads an effort to redesign health care delivery, it is holding workshops for VA clinical staff throughout the country. Last week it brought its training module \u201cWhole Health in Your Practice\u201d to UConn Health to train the VA Connecticut Healthcare System.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis \u2018Whole Health System\u2019 model has been described as a \u2018radical redesign of healthcare\u2019 and has the potential to transform how health care is practiced across the United States,\u201d says Dr. Aysha Saeed from the VA Connecticut Healthcare System.<\/p>\n

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VA Connecticut Healthcare System providers attend Day 2 of a three-day workshop the VA presented at UConn Health Sept. 25-27, 2019. (Photo by Tina Encarnacion)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s a patient-centered, team-based care concept that emphasizes the importance of the relationship and partnership between patients and their health care professionals, empowers self-healing, and works to create a personalized, pro-active, patient-driven experience. The VA\u2019s Whole Health approach is expanding the health care focus beyond disease management, to engaging and empowering the veterans to achieve their optimum health and wellness. The training also addressed staff burnout and self-care.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a model that was launched nationally and continues to evolve,\u201d says Dr. Mary P. Guerrera<\/a>, director of integrative medicine in the UConn School of Medicine\u2019s Department of Family Medicine, and one of the enrollees in the three-day workshop. \u201cIt\u2019s a shift from us asking the patient, \u2018What\u2019s the matter with you?\u2019 to asking, \u2018What matters to you?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Jordan Borgman \u201918 (SOM), \u201914 (CLAS), is in her second year of a family medicine residency and is taking an elective in integrative medicine. She joined Guerrera, her faculty adviser, in attending the workshop.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always been interested in whole health and integrative medicine, and this was a great opportunity to learn how to implement it in your practice,\u201d Borgman says. \u201cIt is a VA-specific training, but it is something that if I don\u2019t wind up working at the VA, I can carry forward to my future practice.\u201d<\/p>\n

UConn Health and the VA have a history of affiliation, and some UConn residents rotate at the VA Hospital in Newington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Innovative model aims to shift the approach from \u201cWhat\u2019s the matter with you?\u201d to \u201cWhat matters to you?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":154966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1868],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2010],"class_list":["post-154927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meds"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 06:14:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/154966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154927"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=154927"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=154927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}