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The Institute for Health & Healing at California Pacific Medical Center and Canyon Ranch Join Forces

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – (April 14, 2004) – The Institute for Health & Healing at California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, Calif., the largest and most comprehensive integrative medicine program in the nation, announces its affiliation with Canyon Ranch, the pioneer and leader in healthy lifestyle and wellness experiences. The partnership is the first of its kind for a community hospital and a health resort and enables the two organizations to provide joint programming, cross referrals, and faculty exchange and education. Clients/guests of the organizations can further their health care at either the San Francisco or Tucson sites.

William B. Stewart, MD, Medical Director of the Institute for Health & Healing, said, “Our association opens the possibility that a major medical center can be your partner when you’re healthy as well as a caregiver when you’re sick.”

“The relationship between these two organizations was forged to support the mutual goal of improving the health of our individual and shared constituents in a flexible and creative fashion,” said Canyon Ranch Executive Vice President Gary Frost, Ph.D.

Each organization’s combination of medical approaches and healthy lifestyle options is unique. With a quarter-century of delivering life-enhancement opportunities to thousands of guests each year at its two destination health resorts and three SpaClubs, Canyon Ranch brings to the partnership a proven integrative and holistic approach to health and wellness. On the long list of what makes Canyon Ranch special, the extensive range of medical services ranks right on top. Their multifaceted team of physicians and health professionals is in a class by itself.

Recognized as a national leader in integrative medicine, the Institute for Health & Healing is staffed with board-certified, Western-trained physicians and expert clinicians who combine the best of conventional medicine with complementary therapies. The quality and breadth of the Institute for Health & Healing’s programs led to California Pacific Medical Center being selected “America’s Healthiest Hospital” by Natural Health magazine. The Institute offers services at four medical centers in the San Francisco Bay Area.

This unique collaboration recently kicked off at the Institute for Health & Healing’s Mini Medical School lecture series, where Phil Eichling, MD, Medical Director of Canyon Ranch in Tucson, spoke about two major contemporary public health problems – sleep deprivation and weight management – and offered holistic, science-based solutions for both. The ongoing exchange of physician experts continues this summer.

About Canyon Ranch:

Canyon Ranch (www.canyonranch.com), founded in 1979 by Mel & Enid Zuckerman, is consistently named best spa by the readers of Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure and Departures magazines. Canyon Ranch’s sister facility, Canyon Ranch in the Berkshires Health Resort, opened in 1989 in Lenox, Massachusetts. In addition to the two health resorts, Canyon Ranch operates Canyon Ranch SpaClub facilities at The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Kissimmee, Florida and onboard Queen Mary 2 luxury ocean liner. Canyon Ranch’s first healthy living residential community, Canyon Ranch Living in Miami Beach, Florida, is scheduled to open in 2005.

About the Institute for Health & Healing:

The Institute for Health & Healing (www.myhealthandhealing.org) was established in 1994 at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. California Pacific Medical Center is the largest private, not-for-profit hospital in California, offering advanced medical care to communities throughout Northern California with specialties such as cardiac care, organ transplant, high-risk pregnancy and microsurgery. The Institute for Health & Healing at California Pacific includes inpatient and outpatient clinical care, self-care and wellness programs, health professional education and research. The Institute’s three other integrative medicine centers in the Bay Area offer services at Marin General Hospital, Novato Community Hospital and Mills-Peninsula Health Services, all Sutter Health affiliates.