Dear Friends of The Maple Center:

Thank you for your support during this past year. As the nonprofit Maple Center for Integrative
Health continues to offer educational and clinical options to the Wabash Valley, we ask for your generous gifts of
time, talent and/or funds to help us educate our community about combining the best of modern medicine with
the best of complementary approaches to support optimal health.

What have you helped us to accomplish in 2010?

We appreciate your strong efforts of support for the Nurse Midwife Services at The Union Hospital Maternal
Health Clinic, one of the Maple Center’s original goals. Because of Anne Mishler’s pioneering beginning in 2004
and most recently Helen Beane’s addition to the practice, over 1500 women in the Wabash Valley have received
care from a nurse midwife and 53 resident family doctors received some of their maternity care training from a
nurse midwife. Their future patients will benefit from this influence.

We are saddened that Anne and Helen will be practicing their excellent approach to care in other communities as
a result of Union Hospital’s decision to no longer continue their contracts. There remains strong community
interest, and we are grateful that they have forged a path for the possibility of other nurse midwives to practice
here. The Maple Center continues to support maternity care options for women in our community with Natural
Childbirth Classes and by housing The Wabash Valley Breastfeeding Coalition.

In other efforts to improve health in the Valley, we are excited by our newest offering--
Wabash Valley CHIP (Coronary Health Improvement Project). You are likely aware of our local
high incidence of heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity. CHIP is a national curriculum
(offered to over 50,000 people) that is an affordable, effective community based program that not only prevents
these problems but reverses them (yes it can open up blocked arteries in the heart).

A pilot course in Jan/Feb was followed by CHIP #2 during Sept-Nov. The Chamber of Commerce, Clabber Girl,
and ISU co-sponsored the second 8 week program. An active alumni group continues support. We’re excited by
results-improved labs and blood pressures, lowered weight, less pain for those with arthritis and fibromyalgia,
and more energy. Our next goals are to expand involvement with other community partners, to work with local
restaurants to provide healthy CHIP congruent options, and to continue to offer the program at least twice/year.

We are excited about additional programming offered during 2010:

• Creating a Path through Loss-The Arts as Healing Tools Workshop; A Path Through Loss Art Exhibit
• Celebration of Life Workshop & Integrative Clinical Care for Breast Cancer Survivors
• Therapeutic Yoga Class
• The Coleman Cancer Center Foundation provides free massage therapy and smoking cessation classes
for cancer patients.
• Monthly free E-newsletter and website (currently under reconstruction)
• Integrative Care Clinical Services: Kathleen Stienstra, MD’s Integrative Medicine and Acupuncture
Practice, Sandra Hendrich, DPT-Physical Therapy with Traditional Chinese Techniques, Music Therapy
by Tracy Richardson (degrees), and free Healing Touch sessions by Margaret Moga, PhD

When making your donation please use the enclosed card and envelope. Your generous donations will help to
ensure that programs and clinical services to improve the quality of health and life in the Wabash Valley will
continued to be offered by The Maple Center for Integrative Health.

Wishing you Good Health and Happy Holidays!

Kathleen Stienstra, MD, Board Chair Melissa Geib, M.Ed, Executive Director

The Maple Center, Inc.

1801 N. 6th St., Terre Haute, IN 47804
812-234-8733
www.themaplecenter.org