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Compassion Center: The Bigger the Mission, the Bigger the Heart
Established: 2001
Welcome to Compassion Center: Patient organization and management services organization (MSO).
Compassion Center provides specialty management services to organizations dedicated to advancing professional education, patient advocacy and glocal innovations that systematically serve categorically complex, terminally ill and underserved populations with truly compassionate and viable (dis)solutions.
Compassion Center – Bridging Integrative Health & Community Support
At Compassion Center, we believe in a healthcare model that treats the whole person, not just isolated symptoms or disease. Founded as a local leader in Eugene, Oregon, Compassion Center has evolved into a globally recognized innovator in medical, mental health, and nonprofit management services, with a profound commitment to addressing healthcare disparities.
Our mission is to lead transformative change by bridging patients with integrative, whole-person healthcare solutions, connecting them to clinics, research institutes, specialized providers and the tools and resources they need to improve their quality of life, balance their mind-body-spirit with their lifestyles, and promote whole-ness and well-ness over disease management.
Our diverse offerings include:
- Clinical Services & Peer Support: Compassion Center operates clinics across 18 states and provides a wide range of services, including telemedicine evaluations, exams, recommendations and referrals that improve access, affordability and inclusion. Medical cannabis recommendations, audiology and hearing aid support, and specialized care for complex health conditions, may require more than one visit, however, Compassion Center makes it a point to streamline patients to solutions in as few appointments as necessary to remain in compliance with the policies, programs and laws that we are operating within. Compassion Center’s Peer support groups serve communities dealing with PTSD, cancer, long COVID, autism, mental illness, and trauma, fostering inclusion, empowerment and shared healing so that we may heal together, as a community, sharing what works and what doesn’t work for us.
- Education and Professional Development: Through our accredited programs, we support healthcare professionals with continuing medical education focused on integrative healthcare, endocannabinology, and patient-centered care. Compassion Center also offers educational resources for patients on safe cannabis use, mental health, and wellness. Through our educational division, Compassion Center bridges gaps in the continuum of care, improving continuity, outcomes and retention, further compounding into measurable impacts that further compound into savings, safety and a higher quality of life for those that are under our organizational care. Sharing this knowledge, Compassion Center partnered with the Integrative Providers Association (IPA) to compound and amplify educational efforts so that the entire interprofessional healthcare team is empowered to improve care in their practices.
Advocacy for Patient Rights: Compassion Center’s advocacy division champions the rights of patients to gain access to affordable, accessible and impartial integrative healthcare, despite geographical, economical or social barriers. Compassion Center also advocates on behalf of plant-based, all-natural, traditional, ancient and integrative therapies, and through these efforts aim to reshape healthcare, reintegrating plant-based medicines such as but not limited to medical cannabis, psilocybin and Iboga, further championing laws that result in equitable access. Our advocacy work extends to collaborating with government agencies, legislators, and other community-based organizations, striving to lower barriers to care and uphold patient freedoms. If it involves patient rights, it involves Compassion Center and the Coalition For Patient Rights (CPR).
- Technology & Innovation in Outreach: Our website features innovative outreach tools that support project tracking, automated updates, and transparent audits of all fundraising activities. Our mobile applications help patients stay connected to their providers while providing their care teams invaluable insights into the patient’s real-time continuity, furthe leading to improved outcomes because the apps make it so people cannot “fake it” when it comes to being well. Telemedicine connects our providers with their patients in the palm of their hands, leading to improved communications, improved cooperation and a continuous chain of care throughout the entire continuum of care. These tools ensure measurable outcomes and provide accountability, helping us track and report on our impact so that we may improve, realign or redirect resources in the most logical manner given each individual situation.
Sponsorship and Financial Assistance Programs: We partner with local integrative providers, inclusive of but not limited to primary care physicians, functional medicine experts, endocannabinologists, audiologists, dentists, orthotists, pharmaceuticals, pharmacy benefits managers, pharmacists and device manufacturers to support and sponsor assistive technologies and prosthetics. Vital devices, such as but not limited to hearing aids, artificial limbs, dental implants and prescription glasses, for individuals who are unable to afford them. This program is expanding in pace with allocated resources, and emphasizes accessible solutions, covering essential devices through sponsorship instead of insurance or out-of-pocket costs. While each patient has to apply, the organization approves scholarships quarterly and the number of patients increases each quarter in accordance with our budget restrictions.
- Research and Global Partnerships: Compassion Center operates research institutes worldwide that conduct interdisciplinary studies to understand healthcare disparities and pioneer patient-centered integrative approaches. From the Institute for Suicide & Homicide Prevention (ISHP) to the Syndicated Investigators Delving Into Hallucinogenics Ethically (SIDHE), and the Institute for Houselessness Prevention (IHP) to the Community-Based Clinical Cannabis Evaluation & Research Network (CBCCERN), CIFR and Compassion Center have never shied away from being the positive change we all need to see in the world with regards to healthcare, mental health, plant-based medicines and the environment. Programs like the Coalition for Patient Rights (CPR) and EarthKwik SDG further our mission of advocacy and reform even calling for cannabis descheduling and safer patient protections.
Through our Office of Accountability & Transparency, our board conducts thorough annual reviews of all programs, ensuring effective resource management, continual growth, and our capacity to serve communities in need. Compassion Center remains committed to expanding responsibly, always open to disruptive ideas that advance public service, patient advocacy, and holistic wellness.
Click on one of the links above, or take a tour below. In any case, rediscover Compassion Center—a trusted partner in healthcare, advocacy, and innovation, dedicated to a healthier, more equitable world and get involved today because the timing has never been better and the future generations depend upon our action. Join Compassion Center!
The Compassion Center Difference: An Integrated Continuum of Care
Integrative healing requires a coordinated, team-based approach, and at the Compassion Center, we connect patients with a network of interprofessional providers who collaborate to create personalized, effective treatment plans. Our integrative model emphasizes:
Comprehensive Support Across Disciplines: Compassion Center partners with professionals across a wide range of specialties—including primary care, mental health, functional medicine, audiology, vision, dental and rehabilitation. By combining traditional and allopathic medicine with integrative modalities, we ensure that each patient’s care plan is just as well-rounded as it is effective.
Enhanced Safety and Coordination: With our interprofessional team, each provider can consider integrative healing options alongside conventional treatments, taking into account possible contraindications and reactions to ensure that patients can thrive. This approach promotes safety, especially when incorporating plant-based medicines, lifestyle adjustments, or therapeutic modalities that can influence traditional treatments.
Personalized, Whole-Person Healing: Our patients receive care plans tailored to their unique needs, combining medical, physical and therapeutic options like medical cannabis, dietary guidance, exercise, orthotics and prosthetics, and more. Through our network of compassionate professionals, patients can access the therapies that best support their individual wellness journey, whether they’re managing chronic conditions, mental health concerns, or categorically complex medical and integrative healthcare needs.
Why Choose Compassion Center?
Compassion Center is more than a healthcare clinic—we are an advocate for holistic, accessible care that serves as a true partner in each patient’s wellness journey. Here’s how our approach makes a difference in your care plan:
Holistic Healing Modalities
Our care extends beyond symptom relief, integrating mental health, wellness, and preventive practices that foster whole-person wellness. By focusing on integrative solutions, we empower patients to take control of their health, mental health and emotional health, providing patients resources for lasting well-being or a higher quality of life.Patient-Centered and Collaborative
We believe in patient-centered care, where patients are active participants in their own healing. Interprofessional teams of providers and specialists coordinate on each patient’s care plan, staying attuned to interactions between treatments and ensuring that every aspect of care is working harmoniously.Educational and Supportive Resources
Compassion Center offers resources for both patients and providers to learn more about integrative health care and mental health options, contraindications, and effective practices. Patients are equipped with the information they need to make informed decisions, while providers can continuously improve their own approaches through ongoing education and peer support that openly collaborates on redirecting healthcare for the betterment of all.Advanced Safety Through Team-Based Oversight
Integrative health and mental health, particularly with the inclusion of plant-based or alternative therapies, requires careful management and professional oversight. By using a collaborative model, Compassion Center safeguards against contraindications and enhances the efficacy of all treatment plans, whether pharmaceutical or holistic.Accountability and Measurable Impact
Our commitment to transparency and accountability guides every program at Compassion Center. Through our annual reviews by the Office of Accountability & Transparency, we track the effectiveness of each of our program services, adapting to emerging needs and trends, and ensure our patients benefit from the highest standards of integrative health care, mental health and peer-support.
Explore Our Services
Whether you’re seeking a medical evaluation, peer support, or educational resources, your Compassion Center provides a wide spectrum of services designed to meet you wherever you are on your healthcare journey. Our programs include:
- Clinical Services & Telemedicine
- Peer Support Groups for PTSD, Cancer, long COVID, Autism, and more
- Interprofessional Continuing Education for Providers, Administrators and Advocates
- Sponsorship for Assistive Devices, Medical Supplies, Dental Prosthetics and Artificial Limb Prosthetics
- Global Research Partnerships
Join Us on a Journey to Whole-Person Wellness
At Compassion Center, we’re dedicated to transforming healthcare through an integrative approach that empowers patients and strengthens communities. Rediscover what healthcare can be—holistic, patient-centered, and truly inclusive.
Explore our website to learn more about our services, resources, and mission. Join us in creating a future where integrative healthcare isn’t just accessible but transformative. Together, let’s build a healthier, more compassionate world.
Disruptive Innovation Originates Directly From Need
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How can we fix something if we don't understand it, or aren't even aware that it is broken? How can we improve if we are not learning better?
These are guiding questions that have evolved into many of the programs that Compassion Center fosters and manages today. Our board is perfectly balanced by patients, medical and mental health providers, specialists and advocates, and it takes an unorthodox, yet balanced approach to advocating on behalf of the betterment of tomorrow so that all patients are served regardless of their circumstances. While we're small, we are mighty and empower our patients to thrive.
While there are those that choose to profit off the healthcare system, 100% of every dollar donated to Compassion Center goes to the various costs associated with the development, start-up, implementation, operation and/or oversight of various programs, or organizations that are administered under the Compassion Center. In any case, no less than 80% makes it to the actual program, where in most cases that number is closer to 90%. Compassion Center is run by a 100% VOLUNTEER Board of Trustees, on behalf of the people, the planet and the communities that we live. However, please make no mistake about it, Compassion Center takes great pride in paying a sustainable living wage for all of our employees, managers and executive leadership because they deserve the very best.
By Delivering Genuine Compassion and Innovations, We ARE Strengthening yOur CommUnity At Large!
Have an Idea to Serve Underserved Populations? Reach out to Compassion Center's Center for Incubation & Findings Research (CIFR), today! Share a basic summary of 100 words or less and if it something viable that our committee feels has a potential, someone from CIFR will be in touch with you to discuss it! Submissions are reviewed by a seated committee, regularly, however, not all inquiries are answered due to an otherwise overwhelming response of ideas.
For over two decades, Compassion Center has been working with a vision and mission to serve underserved populations through advancing professional education, patient advocacy and disruptive innovations that directly lead to improved access, affordability and social equity. All of the Compassion Center's divisions work towards the same direction, a healthier more inclusive tomorrow.
While the Compassion Center board is 100% volunteer, the Compassion Center retains professional fiduciaries and subject-matter experts to lead/guide and facilitate change on an administrative and fiduciary level in order to maintain compliance, accountability and transparency. As such, Compassion Center has successfully effectuated measurable change for hundreds of thousands over the last twenty years. Our latest contribution: a law that provides qualified patients with relief at end-of-life, with the potential to improve the quality of life for over 33,000,000 citizens when/where they need that relief most.
- Don't just help those in need, give them a chance to be the change and rise above it all.
Compassion Center Mission Core:
Educate, Advocate and Innovate
Compassion Center is at the forefront of socioeconomic innovation combining education with healthcare, social services and mental health care, support groups, tools and resources to maximize impact and drive awareness to viable solutions.
Your donations go further at Compassion Center, reaching far more lives, improving more outcomes and results. No less than 80% of every dollar taken in goes directly towards the programs while in many cases programs get over 90% of all fundraising.
Integrating Healthcare with Bio-diverse food supplies is the first step to restoring ultimate wellness and socioeconomic stability. We're committed to working with different cultures and learning all the barriers they face, and what foods work best to ward off dis-eases.
Looking into the future, we are leading the pack in implementation, expanding a series of community based integrative whole-ness and well-ness centers capable of sustaining communities with educational, food, water, health care and career-training resources.
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Volunteer!
Join The Compassion Center in Being The Change We All Need To See In The World:
Volunteering can be the most rewarding experience one can bless themselves with and Compassion Center (CC) is on the forefront of education, advocacy and innovation. CC volunteers are the actual lifeblood of the organization as a whole and many of our executives still work without pay today - while others take a pay cut just to be of service. We humbly thank them all and appreciate their service and commitment to creating the betterment of tomorrow.
ESTABLISHED IN 2001, THE COMPASSION CENTER SERVES PATIENTS AND COMMUNITIES IN THE FOLLOWING STATES:
- Services Delivered via Telemedicine
- Alabama
- Arizona
- California
- Colorado
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Illinois
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Nevada
- New Mexico
- Oregon
- Texas
- Utah
- Washington
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Please Join Us In A Special Thank You To One of Our Volunteer Superstar Leaders:
Mr. Barry Gainsburg, Esq, Director of Compliance is the epitome of integrity, compassion, love and service. Barry has been serving the people of Planet Earth for decades, representing Compassion Center (CC) and our ongoing efforts to prop up and empower solutions for education, healthcare and religious freedom. Barry has been a beacon of light, guiding global entities and NGO programs to safety, leading to improved access, affordability and freedom of choice. Thank you, Mr. Gainsburg, for being you, and always doing what is right for the people and the planet, sir, we appreciate you for being you!
- Learn With Us Today
Educate!
Compassion Center is an education partner with the Integrative Providers Association
Professional Education is key to the redirection of a broken system, learn how Compassion Center leads the change we all need to see in the world.
- Stand Up for What is Right!
Advocate!
Compassion Center, Integrative Providers Association and the Coalition For Patient Rights Advocate 4 U!
Compassion Center lobbyists work on a state and federal level to advocate and influence patient-centric policies so that the next generation is empowered with a higher quality standard of care.
- Donate To Us To Empower Others
Contribute!
Compassion Center converts all donations into positive change.
Donating money is easy, and way cheaper than donating precious time. Compassion Center provides a tax- deductible receipt for your donation.
.80 to .90 cents of every dollar raised goes directly to the discovery, design, direction and implementation of the CC, and its various programs. The CC website contains a full list of all active CC projects and in some cases, a progress bar indicating the current status and ground covered in reaching their goals.
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MSOplus is the administrative lifeblood of Compassion Center, providing a variety of professional services ranging from administrative to human resources and bookkeeping and record keeping.
To redirect a system you have to fully understand the systems that you are working with to know what you can remove and what you rely upon. MSOs are taking over the industry by storm, shouldn't patients be considered?
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Each project featured and managed by Compassion Center is tracked on an individual basis so as to ensure each project is given the full attention, accounting and transparency necessary to validate its impacts in a way that justifies the money, time and effort invested to produce measurable results.
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100% of the donations collected on this site are used to advance the projects listed herein. Projects are executed through a variety of accounting, administrative, legal and operational policies and are under strict oversight for your protection, and the protection of the public benefit.
ABOUT US
Compassion Center (CC) is an Internationally-focused, Oregon- Headquartered, 501(c)(3) public charity clinical and management services organization (MSO) dedicated to creating, fostering and advancing professional and patient education, patient advocacy and healthcare innovations on behalf of the categorically complex, terminally ill and underserved citizens in the glocal community. Compassion Center operates globally through a variety of programs and organizations.
COMPASSION CENTER
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International Headquarters (Administrative):
1915 NE Stucki Avenue, Suite 308,
Hillsboro, OR 97006 (By Appointment) -
Want to Write To The Compassion Center:
P.O. Box 868, Clackamas, OR 97015 -
Call/Fax Us Toll Free:
1-844-THC-COMPASSION
(1-844-842-2667 From inside the U.S.) - Int'l. Voice: +1-541-484-6558
- Int'l. Fax: +1-541-484-0891
- Hours: Monday - Thursday: 9AM - 5PM PST
- Serving Qualifying Patients in: Oregon, Utah, Washington, Nevada, California, Arizona, Wyoming, Missouri, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico and Hawaii
Compassion Center is not considered a Veterans Service Organization (VSO) nor law firm and is not affiliated with the U.S. Veterans Administration (“VA”).
Compassion Center does not provide legal or medical advice related to, or assist in, clients with preparing or filing claims for benefits with the VA.
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