Health Of The Whole Human
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
We believe that the health and wellbeing of all individuals from birth to death is a basic human right that extends to all beings.
Doctors Without Walls
One Heart Worldwide
Palliative Care (Getty)
Hospice (Getty)
Here are some examples:
Sansum Clinic Palliative Care Program provides premier community-based palliative care services and family-centered care that optimizes quality of life by anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering. Palliative care throughout the continuum of a serious illness involves addressing physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual needs and facilitates patient autonomy, access to information, and choice
Hospice of Santa Barbara is an important local partner in offering community education and a wide variety of classes, workshops, counseling opportunities and support group experiences that are specific to the palliative care journey, lending dignity at end of life.
Check out Hospice of Santa Barbara's 2022 Annual Report here.
Doctors Without Walls-Santa Barbara Street Medicine (DWW-SBSM) works compassionately and diligently to provide free, volunteer medical care for the most vulnerable of Santa Barbara County, when and where they are in need. The organization provides experiential education and on the ground training for DWW-SBSM volunteers and others, in order to promote the excellent practice of humanitarian medicine on the streets and in the parks, where the unsheltered live.