Eating Disorder Treatment Programs

The Nova Luna Center for Eating Disorders wishes to establish a collaborative relationship with you to ensure that your patients are provided with the most effective and up to date treatment for Eating Disorders.

Below is information on our programs, our philosophy, as well as links to valuable eating disorder resources, including medical clearance forms for admission to our programs.

Many of your patients are currently suffering, often in silence and secrecy, with an eating disorder. This illness cuts across all ages and ethnic groups, frequently striking young girls and adolescents, who are especially vulnerable to peer pressure, media, and societal influences. We, as a community of healthcare providers can positively influence how many of our patients receive help and gain full recovery from these illnesses. As in all medicine, the earlier the the intervention, the better the prognosis and the shorter the treatment required will be.

At the Nova Luna Center and our nonprofit organization, The Full Moon Foundation, we are committed to education, prevention and treatment. As a community organization, the Nova Luna Center is aware of how many patients seek help from doctors and other health care providers before seeking psychological or psychiatric help.

The multicultural community in Hawaii has varying degrees of acceptance and willingness to seek help for perceived “shameful” psychological/medical disorders. Often as physicians and healthcare providers , you are the first helpers sought out when patients are sick or in pain. Therefore you occupy a unique position to evaluate and assess patients who may be beginning to develop a problem with food, who have developed disturbed eating patterns, or those whose obesity or weight problems continue to be troublesome medically and/or psychologically.

As you have many patients and are often very busy you may not have had the time to educate yourself on how you can help identify these patients readily or if identified you may not know how to best facilitate getting the the patients the help they need or where to send them. The following packet is presented to you with the most up to date information and education on how you can more easily identify and diagnose disordered eating patterns ranging from anorexia or other restrictive/diet issues to bulimia and it’s more subtle indicators commonly missed to compulsive and/or “emotional” eating that leads to or maintains unhealthy weight and obesity.

Although eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental disorder, at the Nova Luna Center we maintain that eating disorders are curable illnesses if properly and adequately treated. We know that eating disorder recovery can be a long process. On average it may take 2 to 5 years to fully clear an eating disorder. However, the earlier the recovery process is initiated the shorter the recovery time will be. We consider physicians and other healthcare providers allies in promoting and providing ongoing treatment for these patients.

Please take a moment to read this material and share it with your nurses and other medical assistants. Our brochure provides more particulars on our program, the admission criteria and the referral process. The Nova Luna center is covered by most health insurance carriers in Hawaii, as well as mainland insurance providers.

If you have more questions and would like to set up a formal or informal meeting or training with us, we will be happy to make arrangements to meet you at a location of your choice.

Thank you for the opportunity to share our enthusiasm, information and expertise with you.

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Eating Disorder Resources for Professionals:

Nova Luna Center Medical Clearance Form - Part I & Part II

Eating Disorder Diagnosis & Screening Card

Initial Screening Form

The Physicians Role in the Prevention & Treatment of Eating Disorders

These files are in PDF format.
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