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Inpatient Services to Help You Heal
Our goal is to alleviate some of the issues that can be associated with a hospital stay, including pain, nausea and difficulty sleeping. We also aim to reduce the stress and anxiety many people experience in a hospital setting. We’ve designed our inpatient services to address your needs. While you’re staying in UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center or UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center, we encourage you to take advantage of our services. They’re designed to enhance your overall wellness.
Please ask your inpatient care team about the services available to you. You can also ask your hospital care team to arrange services for you.
Integrative Therapy
Our services focus on the healing power of touch and the connection between the mind and body. We use meditation, massage, gentle movement, essential oils, and music and animal therapy to enhance your wellness, help you cope and promote healing. Learn more about the services we offer:
UCLA Health Center for East-West Medicine Inpatient Services
Experts from the Center for East-West Medicine offer a wide range of inpatient services at UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center. These services include trigger point injections, acupuncture, mindfulness and lifestyle medicine. We also teach self-acupressure so patients can use these effective therapies on themselves when they return home from the hospital.
UCLA Health Inpatient Integrative Therapies Program
UCLA Health offers a unique Eastern healing program designed to enhance patient care and well-being. Our inpatient integrative therapists offer several gentle healing modalities to address the primary symptoms of pain, anxiety, nausea, insomnia, constipation and exhaustion. Modalities include:
- Contemplative care: Our skilled team members cultivate mindful awareness, emotional balance and compassion in response to issues of illness.
- Essential oils: We use liquids distilled from plant materials to rejuvenate the mind and body.
- Reiki: This Japanese vibrational energy therapy uses light touch on or slightly off the body. Reiki balances the human biofield, which is the field of energy and information that surrounds and permeates the human body.
- Yoga: This practice includes breath awareness, in-bed movement, guided meditation and restorative poses.
UCLA Health Inpatient Wellness Bundle
The UCLA Health Inpatient Wellness Bundle promotes healing in the acute care setting. There is no additional fee for these services. It optimizes patient health through evidenced-based methods rooted in five domains:
- Comfort
- Dental and general hygiene
- Mobility
- Nutrition
- Rest and recovery
Addressing these domains will:
- Create a quiet environment to promote uninterrupted sleep and reduce delirium
- Decrease malnutrition caused by treatments
- Enhance pain management
- Improve hygiene
- Reduce debilitation from bedrest and inactivity
The bundle enables patients to be in the best possible condition prior to being discharged from the hospital. It helps them actively engage in their recovery.
UCLA Health Chase Child Life Integrative Therapies
UCLA Health Chase Child Life Integrative Therapies aims to help children, teens and young adults actively participate in their hospital experience. Our Child Life specialists offer:
- Development of transferable coping skills
- Guided imagery
- Guided medical play
- Psychosocial preparation and teaching
- Therapeutic and developmentally appropriate play opportunities
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Our team harnesses the power of creative expression to help you heal and support your wellness during a hospital stay. Explore our programs:
UCLA Health Music Therapy
Music therapy uses research-based musical techniques to enhance your physical, mental and emotional wellness. Our music therapy services are free to all adults and children at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center, UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center and UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital.
Our board-certified music therapists are part of our comprehensive integrative medicine team. Music therapy can help manage symptoms and offer developmental and emotional support, without the use of medication. Your music therapy goals might focus on rehabilitation, comfort or both. Individualized music interventions include:
- Guided music meditation
- Lyric analysis
- Music improvisation
- Songwriting
- Therapeutic music lessons
We also coordinate treatment with the rehabilitation team. These treatments may involve:
- Creating music and daily living plans
- Evidence-based musical cues
- Journaling exercises to music
- Legacy projects
- Recording and producing
Learn more about UCLA Health Music Therapy
UCLA Health People-Animal Connection (PAC)
Our animal-assisted therapy program offers companionship and warmth to critically ill children and adults. Volunteers bring specially trained dogs to visit patients at their bedside. These visits promote healing, lift spirits and create a sense of calm. Since 1994, PAC has provided more than 120,000 inpatient visits.
Learn more about the UCLA Health People-Animal Connection (PAC)
UCLA Health Expressive Arts Volunteer Program
Volunteer musicians bring music to patients in their hospital rooms. They offer relaxing and inspiring performances on the guitar, harp and cello. Patients also receive art kits and supplies from volunteers who help them with mandala coloring, origami making and journaling. This program fosters creativity and relaxation and improves the mood and mindset of people of all ages.
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We focus on healing touch, gentle movement and other approaches to help you feel better in your body and mind. Learn more about our offerings:
UCLA Health Massage Therapy
A certified UCLA Health massage therapist performs massage therapy. Massage helps to relieve stress, encourage relaxation and promote a sense of well-being. Relaxation massage therapy services are available at the bedside to patients at UCLA Health hospitals. We also offer chair massages at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center.
Learn more about UCLA Health Massage Therapy
UCLA Health Greet the Day Program
Therapists provide hand and foot massages to people receiving treatment at the UCLA Health Bowyer Oncology Center. These massages have been proven to reduce nausea, pain, anxiety and fatigue.
Call 310-267-8223 to learn more.
UCLA Health Heart Touch Project
The Heart Touch Project provides gentle touch and massage services to children with certain conditions who are hospitalized at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital.
Providing regular, compassionate touch to hospitalized infants, children, adolescents and young adults offers numerous benefits. Family members can also receive massage therapy while their loved ones are in the hospital. To learn more, talk to your nurse.
UCLA Health Integrative Therapy
UCLA Health offers a unique integrative therapy service designed to enhance patient care in our hospitals. Our care team members are trained to provide services that help create a healing environment and promote relaxation without the use of medication. Services include:
- Aromatherapy using essential oils
- Breath awareness exercises
- Gentle in-bed movement and restorative poses
- Guided meditation
If you’re interested in receiving integrative therapy, ask your nurse or physician to submit a request. For more information, call 310-267-8223.
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Our compassionate and knowledgeable team members offer comfort and companionship. We relieve suffering, ease pain and provide a peaceful space. Support services include:
UCLA Health No One Dies Alone (NODA) program
The No One Dies Alone (NODA) program began through a collaboration among nursing, spiritual care and volunteer services. Our program serves individuals of all faiths and those who are not religious.
The NODA program supports patients who are actively dying by providing a volunteer at their bedside. The program also includes respite services for patients with family members who cannot be at the bedside.
UCLA Health Integrative Medicine in Palliative Care
The UCLA Health palliative care team supports patients who are seriously ill, helping to relieve pain and other symptoms. We use many different resources to achieve this goal, including integrative medicine. We offer our patients and their families several integrative medicine therapies that bring comfort, including:
- Animal-assisted therapy
- Essential oils
- Guided meditation
- Mindfulness
- Music therapy
- Reiki