St. Vincent’s Hospital lauded for pioneering in new areas of medecine.Catholic Hospital Offers Alternative Medicine
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The painter couldn’t paint. His depression was putting his livelihood at stake. Mark Venaglia’s friends urged him to try the new Center for Health and Healing at St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles. Within a few weeks, Venaglia was once again able to paint, feel hopeful and accept ambitious art commissions. The Pasadena-based artist recently installed two large-scale outdoor art pieces in his city. Venaglia’s treatment was a combination of acupuncture and Chinese herbs, which “made me feel joyous in a very concrete, practical way,” he told The Tidings, newspaper of the Los Angeles Archdiocese. The Center for Health and Healing is a newly launched alternative healing center on the St. Vincent Medical Center campus.
Funded by the Daughters of Charity — who founded St. Vincent as Los Angeles’ first hospital — the center is a continuation of the sisters’ commitment to pioneering new areas of medicine, especially those practices that heal body, mind and spirit.
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