Integrative Health Institute

About Integrative Health Institute

The Integrative Health Institute’s assessment test is a unique method for physicians to diagnose you as a whole and uncover the root of any health issues. Our assessment test is a graph visual combination of The Short Form 36 Health Survey and the “Patient-Directed Custom Health Support” (Pd-CHS), which assesses your emotions, social life, relationships and work satisfactions. It has been developed through the use of patient based quality of life assessment and internet based custom health support in daily clinical practice. Studies have shown that your thoughts, feelings and behaviors can lead to emotional stress and cause health problems. Therefore with the help of the Integrative Health Institute’s assessment test your physician can figure out the true cause of your health problem and find alternate treatments. After your first assessment test you would then be recommended to retake the assessment every quarter to insure that you are living your life as healthy as possible.

Our test is online which means rather than sitting in the doctor’s office taking the test and then waiting for the results- our test can be taken comfortably in your own home. Our assessment is taken securely and directly from our website and the results will be sent to you and your physician before your next visit. This will ensure that your results stay private and confidential between you and your physician. Then any time after your visit you can retake the assessment periodically and have the results sent to your physician where they can keep track of your progress.

Dr. Dwana Bush the founder and president of Integrative Health Institute has been using this method for several years in her private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. She has proven it to be more useful and effective than the standard medical practice. The assessment has really helped her obtain a better understanding of her patients’ health and possible reasons why they were having health issues. Therefore she can help them find alternate treatments for their problems rather than prescribing them medication. The assessment even allows her to diagnose early signs of health problems and prevent them from becoming more serious and harmful to her patients.

Founder: Dr. Dwana Bush, MD

Dwana Bush is the founder and president of the Integrative Health Institute; she is a board-certified Family Physician and a graduate of the Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Bush completed her residency with the Department Family Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. She has been a full-time family practitioner since 1983 at The Center for Integrative Health in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned a subspecialty certification in Hospice and Palliative Care in 2008 and has served as the medical director of Aseracare Hospice in Atlanta since 2006, and Health Field Hospice in Marietta, Georgia since 2010.

From 1985 to 1995, Dr. Bush served as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine for the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and for the Department of family medicine at Mercer University School of Medicine from 1994 to 1998.

Dr. Bush has been widely recognized for her leadership in health care. She was the first woman to receive the Aven Award for Citizenship from the Medical Association of Atlanta for her work in starting the Mercy Mobile Health Project for the homeless and her excellence in medicine. In 1990 The Medical Association of Georgia and the Georgia Academy of Family Practice have acknowledged her as the Georgia Family Physician of the Year. In 1991, 1992, 2007, 2009, and 2010 Atlanta Magazine listed Dr. Bush as "One-Of-The Doctors Our Doctors Go To". In 1995 She was elected by the medical student membership of Emory University School of Medicine in recognition of her clinical teaching to Alpha Omega Alph;, the national medical honor society.

Dr. Bush has served as Asera-Care Hospice Medical Director since 2006 and in 2005 she participated in the U.S. Surgeon General’s Task Force on Health of Women and Girls. She also served on the Governor’s Taskforce on Women’s’ Health in Georgia from 1998 to 2000.