Healwell

Service: -Healwell massage therapists worked at 13 different facilities throughout the dc metro area, as well as providing care to patients in their homes in a catchment area spanning southern Maryland to western Virginia -our therapists touched more than 10,000 patients, staff, and caregivers -received funding to expand our work at medstar georgetown hospital outpatient infusion clinic and adult inpatient palliative care-added 2 new massage therapists to our team; trained 2 of our current therapists who had been working in ambulatory/outpatient programs in the skills necessary to work in hospital-based palliative care and pediatric hospital-based palliative care-expanded services in community-based hospice through goodwin hospice and in our ambulatory/outpatient program with life with cancer-initiated new program for medical students at georgetown university to receive massage therapy and education about the value of integrating massage therapy in serious illness care-referrals to community-based hospice programs doubled in 2023 research:-quantative research paper massage therapy for hospitalized patients receiving palliative care: a randomized clinical trial was published in the journal of pain and symptom management -Healwell staff served as lead authors on massage therapy in palliative populations: a narrative review of literature from 2012-2022 published in the annals of palliative medicine-invited to submit a phase ii proposal through the national cancer institute to continue work and research related to creation of an app-based caregiver education program-received a grant from the odyssey foundation to create a nation-level palliative massage therapy training certificate program-received confirmation of funding from the massage therapy foundation for a multi-year, multi-site study of massage therapy in pediatric bone marrow transplant patients in partnership with childrens hospital of philadelphia-conducted 20 semi-structured, grounded theory approach interviews with adult pulmonary and hematology/oncology nurses in preparation for qualitative paper for publication in a peer-reviewed nursing journal

Education:-hosted 2 virtual conferences (research literacy and ending inequities in end of life care)-held in-person hospital based training for adults and peds in Washington dc-hosted 2 scar classes taught by international fascia expert cath ryan-became cath ryan's official united states host and partner for her scar classes-had 1,267 enrollments from 260 unique students