Interest in complementary health and healing practices — often known as alternative therapies or holistic health care — continues to grow in the Duluth area and throughout the country. St. Mary's Medical Center is responding to that by giving our patients and caregivers access to a number of complementary therapies that are proven to help patients heal.
St. Mary's approach is to skillfully blend the best conventional care with these evidence-based complementary therapeutic interventions. By doing so, we aim to treat our patients in an holistic way — in body, mind and spirit — so that they can truly experience the Soul and Science of Healing.
Since 2000, we have offered the healing therapies listed below, all of which are designed to complement traditional medical treatment. These therapies are in many instances drawn from other medical traditions, and they focus on healing as much as curing: