Reiki in Hospitals

Around the world, the benefits of Reiki are being recognized by the medical community. Public, private, and veterinary hospitals, universities, schools of nursing, health insurances, and foundations promoting health have taken an interest in Reiki treatments — offering information, treatments, contributions to scientific research, and in some cases, treatment reimbursement.

United Kingdom

• University College London Hospitals NHS, London — Reiki treatments offered to patients with stress and mood disorder; to complement conventional cancer treatments; and for endometriosis.
• Southampton University Hospitals NHS — Reiki treatments offered to palliative care cancer patients.
• Aintree University Hospitals NHS, Liverpool — Reiki treatments offered by elderly medicine services.
• Wallace Cancer Care (Cambridge) — Reiki treatments offered to complement conventional cancer treatments.

United States

• The Cleveland Clinic — Reiki treatments offered to patients (integrative medicine), heart patients, and cancer patients.
• Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston — Reiki treatments offered to complement conventional cancer treatments; Reiki initiation offered to nurses.
• Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore — Part of complementary therapies in nurses' practice and education.
• Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston — Information about Reiki on continuing education days for nurses.
• Yale-New Haven Hospital — Reiki treatments offered to families and intensive care heart patients.
• Harvard University — Reiki treatments offered at the Harvard Cancer Center and by university health services.
• Columbia University Medical Center, New York — Reiki treatments via a network of complementary therapies practitioners; offered to cardiothoracic surgery patients.
• Hartford Hospital, Connecticut — Tests showed Reiki used during pregnancy reduced anxiety by 94%, nausea by 80%, pain by 78%, and improved sleep by 86%.
• South San Diego Veterinary Hospital — Reiki treatments offered for animals.

Australia, Germany & Switzerland

• Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Western Australia — Reiki treatments offered to complement conventional cancer treatments.
• CGG Klinik, Mannheim, Germany — Reiki treatments and initiations offered for pain management and to complement cancer treatments.
• Groupe mutuel, SWICA, and Supra insurances (Switzerland) — Reiki treatment reimbursement offered under special conditions.