How Many Hospitals?

So how widespread is it? Hard to tell. A 2008 USA Today story, citing the American Hospital Association, implied that a full 15% of hospitals made Reiki available (that would be about 800). More concretely, the Center for Reiki Research maintains an updated list of hospitals with active Reiki programs. It currently identifies 74 hospitals, including some of the most prestigious in the nation, like the Cleveland Clinic, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, and a number of university teaching hospitals.

 Here is a PDF list of the 74 hospitals- warning, it has no real organization.
If you visit the Center for Reiki Research website, you can browse and sort the entire list, access detailed information about the program at each of the hospitals, and read aboutscience-based Reiki research (note:you will have to establish a free login) –www.reikiinhospitals.org

So how do you find out if your hospital has Reiki available? Besides checking this list, you can ask:

Ask patient services / patient relations. Ask your care coordinator. Ask a friendly nurse working with you. Be your own best advocate for integrated, comprehensive care that will help you feel healthy and supported.

The National Institutes of Health – NIH – might be seen as a bastion of the medical canon of this country. Happily, NIH now includes the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). As part of the 2007 National Health Interview Survey, NCCAM released data on alternative medicine use in this country. At that time, their super-systematic, government-reviewed data produced an estimate that in the prior year 38% of adults had used alternative medicine, with 1.2 million adults and 161,000 children in the U.S. receiving one or more energy healing sessions such as Reiki.

Not so alternative any more, eh?

Reiki therapy at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
(Ross Hutchinson)

From: http://panzadeoro.com/reiki-in-hospitals/