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Helping Heart-Centered Clinicians and Caregivers Provide Impactful Care to Ill and Aging People Without Losing Themselves
Helping physicians and clinicians provide heart-centered, purpose driven, integrative, serious illness care while actively attending to their own wellbeing
Helping hospice and palliative care organizations expand their patient care toolbox, enhance team productivity, and improve employee wellbeing
Helping people with an ill or aging loved one provide the highest quality care without losing themselves
In her own practice, Dr. Delia Chiaramonte discovered that medications alone weren't always enough. Many patients still suffered with pain, anxiety, depression, GI problems, insomnia, and tons of unrelieved stress. She found that when she added more evidence-supported, complementary treatment tools to her toolbox, her patients got better.
She taught some of her patients to meditate and use relaxation breathing. She sent others for acupuncture, massage, or myofascial treatments. She taught her patients positive psychology techniques and cognitive behavioral skills, and helped them integrate guided imagery and exercise into their lives.
As her patients practiced their wellbeing skills, Dr. Delia practiced hers too and she got as much benefit as they did!
This spurred her interest in evidence-supported integrative medicine and she spent more than a decade as Associate Director, and Director of Education, for the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Center for Integrative Medicine. Combining her love for integrative medicine and palliative medicine, she then served as Division Chief of Integrative Palliative Medicine at a Baltimore community hospital.
Dr. Delia founded the Integrative Palliative Institute to teach and support physicians, clinicians, hospice and palliative medicine leaders, and caregivers who yearn for a more innovative, transformational and effective way to deliver palliative care.
As a palliative care physician, she personally experienced the fatigue and frustration that can come with caring so intensely for others, especially in a challenging healthcare environment. She is passionate about helping physicians and clinicians reconnect with the joy of practicing medicine and expand their treatment toolbox, so they can have happier patients, happier lives, and strategically differentiate their practice.
As a person who has been a caregiver, she is passionate about helping families who are caring for an ill or aging loved one to regain the time and energy for what matters most.
Her programs combine evidence-supported integrative symptom management with authentic wellbeing strategies, to create balanced clinicians and caregivers and better patient outcomes.
Caring for people with serious illness is soul work.
Care whole-heartedly for your patients or loved ones, and
care whole-heartedly for yourself.
"Dr. Chiaramonte is a gifted teacher. She engages learners through masterful storytelling to help illustrate concepts. She delivers the light bulb moment and a gem in her sessions consistently. Dr. Chiaramonte makes learning fun!"
- Terry Nguyen, MD
Jillian Rigert, DMD, MD
Tools to help you care for your patients
Skills to talk about hard things
Self-care techniques to improve your own wellbeing
Expert guests
Physicians, clinicians, and others interested in serious illness care will enjoy The Integrative Palliative Podcast.
WIth stories, heart, and a bit of humor, Coping Courageously is a guidebook for caring for seriously ill or aging people.
Insights
Tools
Scripts
Family exercises
"I cannot thank Dr. Chiarmonte enough for this amazing resource for those of us in the healthcare professions... As a hospice nurse, I understood burn-out but not my own misguided mindset when it came to my own journey with palliative care in my family... In one chapter, I literally felt my entire heart, mind and being shift from fear, anger and frustration, to love, compassion and understanding of those dealing with palliative life choices. I am grateful beyond words to feel Delia speaking directly to me through these pages to validate my heart and mind during this most challenging time! A must for families enduring these difficult situations." - Dawn M.
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