RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOR WHOLE-PERSON CARE
A person is more than a diagnosis. The care system should see the whole person.
Health is shaped by the body, feelings, relationships, daily life, and what gives life meaning. We help care teams bring that whole picture into practice, and find ways to sustain the work, including how it is paid for.
Whole-person care
A diagnosis never tells the whole story.
Life does not arrive in separate parts. Ask what matters to the person, what makes daily life harder, and what support is missing. Physical symptoms, emotions, relationships, practical needs, and meaning all belong in that conversation.
Why this matters
A broader view belongs in every practice.
People do not experience physical health, emotional health, relationships, work, and daily life as separate systems. Care often does. Better integration asks teams to connect those realities while keeping clinical roles, payment routes, records, and responsibilities clear.
Medicare and payment
Good care needs a route that can sustain it.
A care idea needs people, time, and a way to support the work. We study how Medicare and private-insurance payment can support whole-person care, and where a promising idea needs closer review. Medicare and private insurers are starting to pay for care that sees the whole person.
Publications and tools
Guidance for the people doing the work.
The Medicare manual examines who does the work, how responsibilities are divided, and which payment questions need to be resolved. Shorter guides focus on a defined question. See what is available and what is still in development. It is written for where care is heading, not only for the rules of today.
Second Edition in preparation
Before the team acts
The questions a team asks before it acts.
A diagnosis names a problem. The person still has to live with it. Before a team decides what care needs next, it can ask what matters to this person, look across the whole picture, agree on who helps, and settle how the work will be sustained. The questions fit any practice. The answers differ every time.
About the Center
Whole-person care is our starting point.
You are here because you care about a person, or about the people your practice serves. The Center studies how care can see the whole person, and what a team needs to make that real. Our books, guides, and research are built for that work.
Dr. Elizabeth Teklinski
PhD, LPC, NCC, NPT-C
Co-founder
Her work helps clinicians understand the diagnostic and payment systems that shape their ability to provide connected care.
Dr. Andrew Teklinski
MD, MS, FACC, CCDS, RPVI
Co-founder
His work at the Center connects the demands of everyday medical practice with the evidence and collaboration needed to integrate mental and medical care.
