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Hospital based massage

Hi All, I am a massage therapy instructor and would like to make contact with any practitioners in MA who are engaged in hospital or hospice-based practice - meaning that your place of employment is within the medical environment. I would like more information about this career choice for my current students. Any thoughts?

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Permalink Reply by Jessica Weagle on January 24, 2010 at 12:31pm

I know Hospice has been looking massage therapist's who would be willing to volunteer to work on patients. Might be a good place for a student to start to gain experiance

Permalink Reply by Nancy Wilde on January 24, 2010 at 2:14pm

Thanks Jessica, I am looking more for information about the business model for hospital based massage. Any ideas of who is actually integrating this into their practice rather than volunteer work? Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Jessica Weagle on January 25, 2010 at 6:49am

Sorry I can't be much help with that. I personally don't know any MT's that get paid in the hospital. I know Fallon Clinic in Worcester was looking for MT to work in the PT/ rehab clinic this past summer

Permalink Reply by Jessica Weagle on January 25, 2010 at 6:50am

www.bodyworkonline.com

Try putting somthing on this board..It is a very active one

Permalink Reply by Nancy Wilde on January 25, 2010 at 8:14am

Good idea...

Permalink Reply by Ginnette Ryan on February 2, 2012 at 12:08pm

I know this is an old post but thought I would comment anyway.

For the past 1.5 years I have been working independently out of a local hospital as a "vendor" one day a week. I was only able to work on hospital employees and I created all my pricing/gift certificate/frequent client/health forms.The hospital did not pay me, each person I worked on had to pay for their own massage. I contacted the HR department and the hospital had a health/wellness program for employees. And having a massage therapist on call as a "vendor" fit into that health wellness program. The HR department would book me a conference room each tuesday afternoon and they also did most of the appointment booking. I started out doing solely chair massage but it moved into table massage as well. However, this meant I had to transport my chair and table to the hospital every week. Plus some weeks would be busy and it was well worth my time being at the hospital and other weeks were very slow. Those slow weeks mean no money since the hospital was not directly paying me.

When I first called the hospital they thought I was soliciting my business. Once it was broken down to working solely on employees they were open to the idea of a LMT coming into the hospital.