At Hilltop Eastern Medicine, it is our mission to improve individual lives and strengthen communities through integrative healthcare that is effective, affordable, compassionate, and personalized.
Our physicians maintain a continual commitment to mindful presence and perceptive attention in their patient care while creating individualized treatment plans based upon integrated eastern and western diagnostic methods and the latest in evidence-informed practice.Further, we believe access to healthcare is a basic human right, so we stand firmly in our provision of accessible healthcare options for all people.
Our physicians maintain a continual commitment to mindful presence and perceptive attention in their patient care while creating individualized treatment plans based upon integrated eastern and western diagnostic methods and the latest in evidence-informed practice.Further, we believe access to healthcare is a basic human right, so we stand firmly in our provision of accessible healthcare options for all people.
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Eastern Medicine is radically different from Western medicine and other natural healing modalities in a variety of ways. First, it is holistic - we examine all of a person with relation to themselves and their complete story. Second, it is natural, utilizing both the body's deep ability to heal itself - when given the right tools and framework - as well as whole herbs (not chemically processed, extracted, nor manufactured).
We are in-network with most major insurance companies, including but not limited to: Aetna, AmBetter, Cigna, First Choice Health Network (and subsidiaries), Premera, and Regence as well as PIP. Masters of Eastern Medicine attend graduate school for four years after attaining their undergraduate degrees.
Qi gong ("chee gong") is one of the five branches of Eastern (Chinese) medicine, which is literally translated as energy work: a fairly broad definition. Practically, it addresses all levels of the human being and includes moving and non-moving meditation, gentle physical exercise, mindfulness, and others.
Integrative medicine is the combining of multiple healing perspectives and modalities to create a health plan that is more comprehensive and effective than any one individual component could be. Masters of Eastern Medicine have extensive training not only in Eastern Medicine but in Western medical diagnostic techniques (including physical assessment, lab work, scans, etc.) and basic pharmacology.
I have always believed that the best approach to patient care is to embody that vessel which is the correct one for whatever is presented. As we are taught from the beginning of and thematically throughout our educational careers, each patient's constitution and presentation is as unique as the individual; this understanding is part of what makes our medicine so powerful--meeting the patient and their symptoms where they are.
