The Center is probably the most inexpensive hospital in the world and is truly a non-profit organization. Yet the Center is an independent, self-sufficient organization, without any help from government or private foundations. Teachers play the roles of doctor, nurse, social worker, cheerleader, parent, friend, brother, and sister. Their effectiveness is measured by the healing rate of their students. Another reason for the Center's effective but low-budget operation is that it uses group therapy.
Students live in groups of four, eight or sixteen persons per room.
By living in groups, students develop in a cooperative spirit of caring and love toward each other. As though sailing on the same boat in the ocean, students bond together against their common enemy's disease. Trained to Heal Just as hospitals associate with medical schools to train young people to enter into the medical profession, the Center also has ChiLel schools to train ChiLel professionals. I was told that there are typically more than a thousand students in both programs in school. In addition, just as prestigious hospitals have research programs, the Center has many on-going research projects both on site and at different university campuses around the country.