Recently The Biscayne Institutes of Health & Living, founded and directed by Saybrook Mind-Body Medicine faculty member Marie DiCowden, was named one of 16 best practices for community integration of individuals with brain injury out of 253 surveyed world wide by the Univeristy of Toronto for an upcomming publication.
The Biscayne Institute of Health & Living cares for hundreds of people, from young children to the elderly: it offers the community wellness programs, health education, integrative primary care programs, and rehabilitation; it has a school on premises to serve special needs children and youth so that their school and health care treatments are integrated at the same site; and they train graduate level health care providers from many disciplines in health care and integrative medicine.
“The idea is that we have a center where people don’t just come when they’re sick, but that provides for the needs of themselves, and their family, at all times,” DiCowden says. “It’s integrated into the school and the medical programs, and we have a number of activities that extend beyond physical or mental issues into health issue broadly.”
Biscayne has also recently received the Florida State Surgeon General’s Award Health Innovation, Prevention and Management Award.