Integrative Medicine Comes to Hope & Healing Care Services
Hope & Healing Care Services is pleased to expand its services and introduce its patients to a more comprehensive approach to healthcare called integrative medicine. By recognizing the benefits of combining standard medical care with safe and effective complementary therapies, our goal is to treat not just the disease of cancer, but our patients as their whole selves.
Integrative medicine works with patients to address their concerns during cancer treatment, including their physical, emotional, spiritual, and social needs. This approach can help reduce some of the challenges of cancer treatment, including fatigue, pain, and anxiety.
Meet Our Partners in Providing Comprehensive Care
Dr. Omar Said is partnering with Hope & Healing Care Services to provide on-site pain management care. He is a board-certified interventional pain physician and anesthesiologist and founder of the Ascend Pain and Wellness clinic in Westchester, Illinois. He completed his anesthesia residency at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago where he was recognized as the Most Outstanding Resident and received the prestigious Katalim Selmeczi MD Memorial Aware for Humanism. Dr. Said completed his fellowship in interventional pain management at The Cleveland Clinic where he was recognized as the Most Outstanding Fellow.
Dr. Said’s practice as a pain specialist centers on honesty and patient collaboration. He is committed to helping his patients achieve the best possible quality of life available to them. Dr. Said will see patients onsite at Hope & Healing Care Services.
Dr. Yaquta Patni is partnering with Hope & Healing Care Services to provide on-site palliative care services. She is a board-certified geriatrician and wound care specialist and founder of Innovative Geriatrics in Lisle, Illinois. Dr. Patni provides care for patients with complex medical problems, including palliative care needs. She helps patients and their families navigate this extremely vulnerable period of their healthcare journey, centering her efforts on the comfort of her patients.
Dr. Patni will see patients onsite at Hope & Healing Care Services.
Our proud collaboration with Hinsdale’s own Wellness House continues. Wellness House was founded in 1990 and has been providing wellness support for local cancer patients and their loved ones ever since. Their trained staff come to Hope & Healing Care Services weekly to provide counseling, nutrition and exercise guidance, family support, and general information for Hope & Healing patients about how to ease the challenges of living with cancer.
“Providing the best care to the patients at Hope & Healing has been my goal and dream since I founded the clinic. By creating partnerships with other local independent providers, my patients will have onsite access to experts in pain management, palliative care, and wellness support, providing integrative medicine in our familiar, comfortable clinic setting,” says Dr. Srilata Gundala, hematologist/oncologist and founder of Hope & Healing Care Services in Hinsdale, Illinois, “Integrative medicine aims to treat patients as more than just their diagnosis or disease, but as whole people with full lives outside their cancer treatment. I look forward to this new era for Hope & Healing Care Services and am confident my patients will benefit from the benefits of integrative medicine.”
Written By: Sheila Quirke, MSW
Reviewed By: Srilata Gundala, MD
