Samaritan Hospice provides specialized medical care and emotional support for people facing serious and progressive illnesses. A circle of care and comfort surrounds patients and their families to support the choice to stay at home by relieving the physical, emotional and spiritual pain and other symptoms of terminal illnesses.
	The Center for Advancement in Cancer Education is a non-profit cancer information, counseling and referral agency which focuses on combining the body's natural healing potential with advances in medical science. Specializing in immunopotentiation through clinical nutrition, botanical medicine, and psychoneuroimmunology, the Center offers resources for cancer prevention as well as non-toxic approaches as adjuncts or alternatives to conventional cancer treatments.
	The American Holistic Nurses' Association embraces nursing as a lifestyle and a profession and provides a means to create bonds within the nursing community. Because true healing comes from within, the AHNA recognizes that nurses must first heal themselves before they can facilitate the healing of others. There are many roads to healing, and individuals must seek their own paths. The AHNA serves as a bridge between the traditional medical paradigm and universal complementary and alternative healing practices
	Healing Touch is an energy (biofield) therapy that encompasses a group of non-invasive techniques that utilize the hands to clear, energize, and balance the human and environmental energy fields. The Healing Touch educational program was developed by Janet Mentgen, RN, BSN utilizing a nursing continuing education format. The American Holistic Nurses' Association and Healing Touch International endorse the Healing Touch educational program.
	HEALING TOUCH SPIRITUAL MINISTRY was created to provide quality education on the spiritual and scriptural aspects of healing ministry and the laying-on of hands, specifically, Healing Touch, to faith communities and individuals in ministry settings everywhere.
	Friends' Health Connection (FHC), a nonprofit support network that connects people with similar health problems for the purpose of mutual support.

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