About
Our Vision, and a Word from the Chairman of the Board
Modern medicine is all about treatment which is focused on a specific ailment or body organ. In contrast, the Integrative Medicine approach perceives a body as one complete unit and not as a compilation of organs. It perceives a human as an integrated body-mind-spirit being, in which all three elements work together as one dynamic essence in the deepest levels. Thus, according to Integrative Medicine, treating physical symptoms alone could not be enough, but rather wellness can be reached and achieved only when providing inclusive comprehensive care to the entire unit, body, mind and spirit.
The year 2020, which introduced COVID-19 crisis into our lives, evidently did one thing right. It helped us push the integrative approach to the medical front-stage discourse. Throughout the recent pandemic inflicted years, it became quite clear that our mental health is of great influence to our physical health, and that pressure, anxiety and traumas that go untreated, contribute to the outburst of diseases and to the weakening of our body’s immune and resilience capacities.
IMFA was established after a long period in which hard proof, that Integrative Medicine works, has been reaching us stronger and firmer than ever before. It is a non-profit organization, established in order to leverage the window of opportunity that was created by COVID-19 and to achieve:
- A radical shift in the public perception and acceptance of IM health services in Israel as well as worldwide.
- A broadening of the conventional medicine approach
- An establishment of the Integrative Medicine approach as a legitimate, effective and practical health practice, which should be available to any person who wishes to receive it.
I am happy and excited to welcome each and every one of you, advocates of IM, who understand that true healing must involve not only our body but also our mind and spirit, to join us, to contribute, and to take part in promoting one of the most important health and wellness revolutions in the modern history of medicine.
With my best wishes of health and wellness,
Gilad Segev
Chairman of the Board
Gilad Segev
Shauli Paz
CEO's statement
The integrative approach sees not only the injury that needs to be healed but also the individual as a whole—body, mind, and spirit. This approach emphasizes holistic healing, running parallel to medical rehabilitation, providing, and empowering the soul and spirit.
IMFA (Integrative Medicine For All), was born out of a vision to promote integrative medicine in Israel and around the world. We decided to take on the initiative of establishing the first integrative rehabilitation hospital in Israel—Medical Care, with a unique combined medical protocol of body and soul. We operate with the goal of providing the best possible rehabilitative care, encompassing both physical and emotional treatment, to all patients and their families.
Within our integrated protocol, patients receive advanced medical treatment at the highest level, combined with supportive emotional therapy that strengthens motivation to overcome the challenging and painful rehabilitation process, enabling them to return to good and meaningful lives.
Family members and our medical teams also receive supportive emotional care to develop emotional resilience and stability, allowing them to continue providing optimal care for the patients.
Today, after October 7th, there is no longer a need to promote treating the trauma at the same time with the injury or the disease.
I invite you, patients, family members, and professionals in various rehabilitation, medical, and emotional fields, to join us in the innovative and groundbreaking rehabilitation circle at Medical Care!
IMFA’s vision has become a reality with the opening of Medical Care at June 2022 and its growing ever since.
IMFA’s goals are:
- To Manage the Medical Care Rehabilitation hospital as a lighthouse of integrative medicine in Israel demonstrating a superb rehabilitation protocol with the combined body and soul treatments.
- To broaden the establishment’s recognition of Integrative Medicine (IM), as to acknowledge the value, the effectiveness, and the necessity of IM treatments under the body-mind-spirit approach, and to include IM treatments in healthcare services baskets provided by HMOs and other public health services in Israel.
- To raise public as well as professional awareness to the value and the effectiveness of IM treatments provided under the body-mind-spirit approach; and to promote a shift in the current wellness perception which is focused on the absence of illness, towards a newer, more complete perception of wellness being a state of physical, mental and social contentment, in full accord with the World Health Organization’s definition of health and wellness.
- To ensure the accessibility of IM, and body-mind-spirit oriented treatments to every person, from every home, from all parts of society, who seeks to receive it.
