Seattle Children’s inpatient acupuncture program began as a six-month pilot in January 2014. During the pilot, acupuncturists were available four hours a day, five days a week. Before the pilot, acupuncture was available to outpatients, but only on a sporadic, ad-hoc basis for inpatients.
The pilot was so successful that the Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Department turned it into a fully funded program that offers acupuncture to inpatients eight hours a day, five days a week. Seattle Children’s is one of just a few top pediatric hospitals in the U.S. with an inpatient acupuncture program.
Read the whole story over on the Seattle Children’s website here.