As Hope Moves Forward comes to a close, thank you for being part of IOCH’s next chapter. Explore our open-house recordings, see what we’re building, and help us bring individualized care to more people.
At IOCH, we believe healthcare should adapt to the individual, not reduce people to diagnoses, protocols, or averages.
Hope Moves Forward brought together the story of our growth in care, research, education, technology, and collaboration. Thank you to everyone who attended an open house, shared our work, offered support, or trusted us with their story. The campaign is concluding, and the work continues.
Revisit the announcements and milestones from May through September, ending with our community open houses and the next steps for IOCH.
This month marks the beginning of IOCH’s summer campaign highlighting the continued growth of individualized, contextual healthcare.
IOCH officially launches its summer campaign focused on growth, collaboration, accessibility, and the future of individualized care.
Learn MoreIOCH shares its continued commitment to individualized, human-centered healthcare that adapts to each person’s needs, goals, and context.
Explore Individualized CareJune marks the first major reveal in the Hope Moves Forward campaign: an important leadership expansion that strengthens IOCH’s ability to advance individualized, contextual healthcare.
IOCH is pleased to announce that Dr. Andrew Lewandoski will join the Institute of Contextual Health as Medical Director, marking a major step forward in the organization’s growth and long-term vision.
Dr. Lewandoski is a rheumatologist with extensive experience supporting individuals with complex and chronic conditions. His person-centered approach aligns closely with IOCH’s commitment to care that adapts to the individual rather than reducing people to diagnoses, protocols, or averages.
This leadership expansion supports IOCH’s continued growth from a rehabilitation clinic into a broader research, technology, and healthcare institute focused on individualized contextual care.
The addition of a Medical Director represents an important step in IOCH’s development as a more comprehensive institute for individualized and contextual healthcare.
With Dr. Lewandoski’s leadership, IOCH is preparing to expand medical services, strengthen clinical oversight, and support more coordinated care planning across disciplines.
This growth helps IOCH move toward a future where medicine, rehabilitation, behavioral health, research, and technology work together around the needs and context of each person.
Explore ProgramsIOCH’s leadership growth also supports the next phase of research and technology development: building systems that help individualized care become more coordinated, measurable, and responsive to the realities of people’s lives.
The Hope Moves Forward campaign explored how research, education, data-informed tools, and technology initiatives are shaping the future of contextual healthcare.
These initiatives reflect IOCH’s broader vision: not simply providing services, but developing the frameworks, tools, and collaborative models needed to advance individualized care.
Explore the August updates below for more on research, technology, and innovation.
Revisit the JourneyThis announcement is more than a staffing update. It signals the next stage of IOCH’s work: integrating clinical care, medical leadership, research, education, and technology around one central idea.
Healthcare should fit the person.
Each chapter of Hope Moves Forward built on this foundation by showing how IOCH is expanding access, deepening impact, advancing innovation, and inviting the community into the future of individualized contextual healthcare.
July focuses on expanded access, individualized care, organizational growth, and the continued impact IOCH has had since its inception.
As IOCH grows, our focus remains centered on one question: how do we make individualized, contextual care more accessible to the people who need it?
This next chapter is about more than adding services. It is about building a more connected model of care where rehabilitation, medical leadership, education, research, and technology work together around each person’s story, goals, and lived context.
Throughout July, Hope Moves Forward highlighted how IOCH is expanding access through clinical programs, student mentorship, community-based care, and continued development of systems that support individualized healthcare.
Explore ProgramsSince 2023, more than 3,000 people have trusted IOCH with their healthcare journey.
To us, this milestone has never been about the number. It represents more than 3,000 unique stories, each with its own goals, challenges, strengths, and hopes for the future.
Every person who walks through our doors teaches us something new. Those experiences continue to shape our approach to individualized care, influence our research, inspire new technology, and strengthen our belief that healthcare should begin with listening.
If you have a story to share, we'd be honored to hear it. Whether you're looking for care, have questions about our services, or simply want to connect, we're here to listen.
July has focused on what IOCH’s growth means for people: expanded access, deeper impact, and a continued commitment to individualized care that responds to each person’s story, goals, and lived context.
Since opening our doors, IOCH has continued to grow because of the people, families, clinicians, students, partners, and community members who believe healthcare can be more responsive, more collaborative, and more human-centered.
This month has highlighted an important part of the Hope Moves Forward story: progress is not built by one announcement, one program, or one person. It is built through relationships, shared learning, and a community willing to imagine something better.
The August chapter continued this story with research, technology, and innovation designed to support more individualized and contextual care.
August introduces the broader vision guiding IOCH’s future, including the Contextual Health Framework, research development, and continued innovation.
August begins with the next step in the Hope Moves Forward story: the continued development of IOCH’s Contextual Health Framework.
This framework grows from IOCH’s work in individualized rehabilitation and expands it into a broader approach for understanding health, care, behavior, environment, function, and lived context together.
Rather than asking people to fit into a single pathway, the Contextual Health Framework supports care that adapts to the person: their goals, history, relationships, environment, challenges, strengths, and daily life.
As IOCH continues growing as a research and technology institute, this framework will help guide how we develop clinical programs, educational initiatives, technology tools, and future research.
Learn MoreIOCH is also preparing its first formal research publication introducing the Contextual Health Framework and the broader ideas guiding our approach to individualized care.
This work represents an important step in IOCH’s development as a research and technology institute. It gives shape to the clinical reasoning, educational models, and care philosophy that have been developing through IOCH’s programs and community-based work.
The publication will help communicate how contextual factors — including a person’s goals, environment, relationships, history, function, and lived experience — can meaningfully shape health, care, and recovery.
As this research develops, IOCH will continue building connections between clinical practice, education, technology, and scholarship so individualized care can be studied, strengthened, and shared more broadly.
Learn MoreResearch helps us understand. Technology helps us respond. Care brings it all together.
IOCH is building a model where research, medicine, rehabilitation, education, and technology work together to support care that learns and adapts to each person.
This work extends beyond what happens during an appointment. By better understanding each person’s goals, environment, experiences, function, and daily life, we can develop care that responds to what is happening between appointments and supports meaningful, sustainable change.
The future of individualized care is not one program or technology. It is a connected system built around the person and strengthened by every story shared with us.
Help Move Hope ForwardThank you to everyone who joined our September 16 and 25 open houses, in person or online. Your questions and encouragement helped bring this next chapter into focus.
Hear from Dr. Lewandoski, Leonard Van Gelder, and Cameron Faller about why this work matters, where IOCH is going, and how our team is working to get there.
Watch the presentation and read answers to questions from both events about services, insurance, our care team, expansion, and ways to help.
Watch the Presentation & Read the Q&AWatch Leonard’s demonstration of the technology we’re developing to connect information, understand each person’s story, and support conversations between patients and clinicians.
Interested in helping us learn? You can also join the technology tester interest list on the recording page.
Watch the Technology DemoHope Moves Forward began with a shared belief: healthcare should make room for the whole person. Our next chapter puts that belief into practice as we add medical services, grow our rehabilitation team, explore behavioral health services, and expand the technology supporting that care.
Our goal is to build the right team to support 3,500 people and more. Funding and day-to-day operations shape how quickly we can grow. Your support helps us keep moving.
Help Move Hope ForwardIOCH is ready for its next chapter, but the path forward has become more difficult.
At a time when nonprofit funding is increasingly constrained and the cost of providing healthcare continues to rise, IOCH remains committed to accepting insurance and preserving access for people who are often excluded from individualized care. Approximately 40% of the people we serve are covered by Medicaid.
Funding we had expected and planned around fell through late in the process, creating an unexpected gap in the transition.
That changed our timeline, not our vision.
IOCH is moving forward, but without additional support, parts of our medical expansion, staffing, and technology development will proceed more slowly than planned.
We welcome donations, loans, and other mission-aligned funding to help build our team, expand access, and support work that insurance does not consistently reimburse. That includes technology development and connections between appointments. Donations of any size help move this work forward.
The foundations are in place. Growing the team and expanding our technology takes continued time, resources, and support. Sharing our work, making an introduction, volunteering your expertise, or cheering us on matters too.
At IOCH, we believe healthcare should adapt to the individual, not reduce people to diagnoses, averages, or protocols.
Every person carries a unique history, environment, set of experiences, goals, and challenges that shape health and recovery in meaningful ways.
Hope moves forward when people feel heard, supported, and understood.
Explore Individualized CareThe campaign is concluding, but there is more to share. Receive IOCH announcements, research and technology updates, stories from our community, and opportunities to support what comes next.
Sign Up for UpdatesHope moves forward when people feel heard, supported, and understood.
Institute of Contextual Health (IOCH) is a DBA of the Institute of Contextual Human Health, Wellness, and Performance, a Michigan 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN: 93-2352009). Donations are tax-deductible as permitted by law. IOCH is registered with the Michigan Department of Attorney General, Registration No. 70389.
