Why HHC?

Health and healing consortium (HHC) facilitates dialogue and activities among diverse health providers and the public so that, as a community, we can build an optimal system for our health care and wellness. We believe that San Antonio, TX has a wealth of talent and resources in its health providers, which, can be more fully realized as we establish a forum for communication and learning from each other. To this end, HHC works collaboratively with individuals, groups, and organizations.

Who Participates in HHC?

We include practitioners representing alternative, integrative, and conventional fields of medicine as well as those practicing their culture's traditional methods of healing. We especially look for "bridge people" who have started out in conventional medicine, have gone on to master alternative approaches and then include them in their practice of teaching. Attending HHC events are nurses, psychotherapists, holistic dentists, some physicians, massage therapists and bodyworkers, chiropractors, reiki and hypnotherapists; also movements practitioners, art therapists, nutritionists, dietitians, and naturopaths and interested public. All bring very important perspectives on health.

What Are Some of Our Policies and Positions?

Health is a personal issue. HHC aspires to provide the best sources of information available to promote personal advocacy in health care or to inform a health practitioner seeking to learn about other resources in our community for themselves or their client. Our position as an organization regarding choices for health is neutral.

HHC supports a pluralism model for the most effective relationship between mainstream and alternative medicine. "Pluralism encourages cooperation, research, and open communication and respect between practitioners despite the possible existence of honest disagreement and preserves the integrity of each of the treatment systems involved." - Ted Kaptchuk, OMD and Franklin G. Miller, PhD from the article "What is the Best and Most Ethical Model for the Relationship Between Mainstream and Alternative Medicine: Opposition, Integration, or Pluralism?" Acad Med. 2005; 80: 286-290. (March 2005)