Hill Park Medical Center

Alternative Health Care

Hill Park Medical Center was founded in 1987 to create a place where people could experience both alternative healing methods and conventional western medicine in a friendly and professional setting. Originally combining family practice with acupuncture, herbal medicine and bodywork, Hill Park Medical Center has grown and branched out as we’ve learned new skills and incorporated other practitioners.

Integrative medical care combines the best of conventional medical care with selected complementary and alternative therapies. We pay careful attention to mind, body, spirit, emotions, and environment to help each person to best meet their health challenges. We focus on the whole person and emphasize the use of the least harmful therapies first.
About Hill Park Medical Center

There are many systems of alternative medicine.

At Hill Park Medical Center we offer:

Holistic Family Practice
Acupuncture
Chinese Herbal Medicine
Functional Medicine/Orthomolecular Medicine
Osteopathic Manipulation and Cranial Sacral Therapy
Homeopathy
Body Work and Massage Therapy
Weight Loss Programs and Nutritional Counseling
Natural Hormone Balancing
Alternative Cancer Support Care
Solving Complex Medical Problems
Pain Relief
Holistic Women’s Health Care
Therapeutic Yoga
Qi Gong

Our physicians are experienced family practice doctors trained in conventional medical treatments as well as alternative care. We often will send you for lab tests, order x-rays or scans and prescribe western medicine along with offering alternative treatments. Our acupuncturists and massage therapists are the best in their fields. By working as a team, we are able to provide our patients with the quality of care that we want for ourselves and our own families.

Today, conventional medicine is often practiced by grouping patients into disease categories. For instance, you might hear about “the appendix” in room 4, or the “hip replacement coming down from surgery.” This loss of identity is the loss of the soul and removes the human component of healing. Formulas have been established for the treatment of each disease. Instead of asking what is unique and special about each person, protocols are used which often serve the needs of the insurance companies and the managed care industry rather than the patient.

New paradigms in medical care are keeping us on the cutting edge with saliva and urine tests that look at cellular function and can measure neurotransmitters, hormones and find precise ways to treat many conditions. In addition to our focus on the physical body—the tissues, the bones, the muscles, the organs—most of the treatment modalities at Hill Park Medical Center treat the energy field around each person. Whether you call it chi (qi) or life force, working with this energy field is an important part of any healing program. When all systems are flowing well the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual healing is more complete.

Left to right: Carrie, Sofia, Trish, and Josie

Meet the Office Staff

The phones are ringing, prescriptions need faxing, charts need to be copied, someone wants something from the Natural Remedy Store and two patients are checking out! Who are these women who can handle all these jobs as well as getting your room ready for your appointment and making sure you are comfortable and well cared for?

Each time you place a call to Hill Park Medical Center, come in to purchase a supplement or herb, or arrive for an appointment you will be greeted by one of the very special women behind the front desk. Our goal is for your healing journey to start right when you walk in the door!

Trish
It’s been 20 years! Trish, our office manager and new patient coordinator, has been with Dr. Bouch and Hill Park Medical Center for two decades. She knows most of you by name and even if you have not been in for awhile Trish will most likely remember you and greet you with her warm effusive smile. Family is extremely important to Trish. She and her husband Glenn will be celebrating forty years of marriage this March. Congratulations! She has four beautiful grown children and eight grandchildren. “I feel honored, blessed and proud to be part of this wonderful place.” We feel honored and blessed to have Trish on our team.

Carrie
Carrie Battin Joined Hill Park Medical Center as billing and data entry specialist but now she is the coordinator for the Natural Remedy Store. Carrie knows each of you by name and exactly what’s happening each day. With her welcoming smile she answers the phones, solves computer problems for the rest of us and checks patients in and out all while she gets her NRS stuff done. She grew up in Novato and married her high school sweetheart about ten years ago. She has worked in the medical field for over nine years and brings a wealth of knowledge to her position at Hill Park Medical Center. She is very fond of cats and making candles and jewelry.

Sofia
Sofia has been an administrative medical assistant at Hill Park Medical Center since June of 2007. Her enjoyable days here include: patient care; scheduling appointments; processing medical records; and aiding Dr. Bouch with scheduling appointments for Integrative Medical Solutions patients.

Josie

Josie, Nationally Certified Phlebotomy Technician, is Hill Park Medical Center’s phlebotomist and is also the newest member of the office staff. Josie does all the in-house blood draws and also assists the medical staff with injections and IVs. She loves her work and enjoys the professional as well as relaxed & friendly atmosphere at Hill Park. Josie gets a lot of satisfaction from helping patients as quickly and as comfortably as possible. She is looking forward to taking more college classes and continuing with her career in the medical field.

In Memorium, Anita Dimondstein

Anita Dimondstein, a local businesswoman, activist, photographer and healer, died June 9, 2010. She was 62.
Ms. Dimondstein grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., and attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she became an ardent anti-war activist. It was at Penn that she met her husband of 34 years, Brian Bouch.
After college, she became a licensed physician’s assistant and co-founded Women in Transition, the first organization in the United States to empower underprivileged women to build lives free from violence, substance abuse and poverty. She was also an early pioneer in the home birth movement.
Ms. Dimondstein had a knack for finding opportunities to help inspire meaningful change in people’s lives, her family said, and liked to call herself a “serial entrepreneur.”
With her longtime friend and business partner, Joan Cooper, she founded and ran Biobottoms, a natural children’s clothing company, which boasted over 100 employees (mostly women), and popularized the use of cloth diapers.
In more recent years, she took over the administrative reins of her husband’s integrative medical practice, helping it to grow into a successful medical center.

“Anita’s immense creativity shone through her artwork and music,” her family said. At an early age, she played classical violin, and later guitar. She had a deep love of photography, which she inherited from her father. In her later years, she became a spiritual seeker, a dedicated practitioner and teacher of Qi Gong, as well as an energy healer.

Ms. Dimondstein had a deeply adventurous spirit and a love of travel, which she passed on to her two daughters, Rachael and Andrea, by exposing them to far corners of the world from an early age. She and her husband, Brian, spent their honeymoon on six-month bicycle road trip through Europe and lived on a sailboat for two years traveling from the Northeast to the Caribbean.

“Anita carved her own path,” her family said. “She lived a life full of true passion and immense love. She lived according to her dreams and values, with unrelenting dedication. She nurtured and inspired all those around her, including her family, friends, pets and garden. She was a courageous and beautiful woman. She will be deeply missed.”