doTerra drops $5 mill for access to cancer patients
A $5 million dollar donation will provide doTerra access to cancer patients at St. Elizabeth Healthcare.
St. Elizabeth Healthcare claims to be “one of the most respected medical providers in the Greater Cincinnati region.”
For more than 150 years, St. Elizabeth has been the heart and soul of healthcare in Northern Kentucky.
Founded with one small hospital in 1861, St. Elizabeth Healthcare now operates five facilities throughout Northern Kentucky.
In a press-release issued last month St. Elizabeth Healthcare disclosed a $5 million dollar from doTerra.
So the story goes;
doTERRA first learned of the St. Elizabeth Cancer Center from one of its wellness advocates who was a former patient of Dr. Flora and is now a cancer survivor.
doTerra made a $5 million dollar donation to St. Elizabeth Healthcare, which the medical provider claims marked ‘the start of a synergistic partnership between the two organizations.’
According to St. Elizabeth, doTerra’s donation is ‘largest corporate donation in St. Elizabeth Foundation’s 30 year history.’
St. Elizabeth is currently working towards opening a new Cancer Center in Edgewood.
doTerra’s $5 million dollar donation will give them
an entire floor of the building that is dedicated to the holistic, patient-centered approach to care known as integrative oncology.
The doTERRA Center for Integrative Oncology will be more than 8,400 square feet on the first floor of the St. Elizabeth Cancer Center.
The Center will provide a calming space with holistic care options to complement St. Elizabeth’s comprehensive medical care, including the use of doTERRA essential oils and aromatherapy, yoga, meditation and a spa-like atmosphere for patients undergoing cancer treatment.
Whether or not doTerra products will be pushed onto St. Elizabeth patients is unclear.
Also unclear is who will be paying for stocked doTerra products. St. Elizabeth’s press-release doesn’t go into details.
As far as I’m aware there’s no studies demonstrating any medical benefits of essential oils for cancer patients.
That St. Elizabeth Healthcare would thus dedicate an entire floor of their Cancer Center to promote doTerra oils is pretty concerning.
In 2014 doTerra received a warning from the FDA, specifically in relation to their essential oils being
promoted for conditions that cause them to be drugs under section 201(g)(1)(B) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) [21 U.S.C. § 321(g)(1)(B)], because they are intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease.
It’s pretty obvious doTerra’s paid access to St. Elizabeth’s patients is an attempt to associate the company’s products with cancer treatment.
And what will inevitably follow is doTerra distributors using the partnership as a pitch to any cancer patients they come across.
Hi (insert random cancer patient), did you know doTerra oils are used by a Mayo Clinic Care Network provider for cancer treatment?
I’ve got the exact same oils right here for you to buy!
Let’s face it, legitimacy via association is ultimately what doTerra have paid St. Elizabeth $5 million for.
I imagine the doTERRA Center for Integrative Oncology floor is going to be plastered with company advertising. Will doTerra distributors be running around the rest of the hospital pitching oils to other patients? Who knows.
If the documented medical science was there, I have no issue with essential oils being used by medical providers as part of cancer treatment.
It’s not though. And as far as I can see, doTerra’s and St. Elizabeth’s partnership is gearing up to be a regulatory minefield.
Best of luck to both companies.
DESPICABLE!
Here’s the main St. Elizabeth US phone number if anyone would like to make their objection known:
1-859-301-2000
I came across the news on reddit. The reporter posted this 17 days ago, so I’m not sure if she is still working on the article:
reddit.com/r/MLMRecovery/comments/digw0r/looking_for_stories_of_bogus_health_claims_made/
(I’m seeing red.) Who are these RNs and are they pyramid schemers?
stelizabeth.com/medical-services/family-birth-place/resources/aromatherapy
Is “Clinical Aromatherapist RNs” an actual thing?
Sounds like an excuse to peddle MLM products onto vulnerable patients (or bill the hospital).
Perhaps as legitimate as “Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade”? The website below is a wealth of information including emails from DoTerra Corp.
“DoTERRA, LLC is yet another multi-level marketing natural products company based in Utah who has applied through the U.S. Patent Office to “own” (exclusive use) a registered word mark.
This registered word mark has not been provided to them by the FDA as they claim and is meaningless in proving that an outside certifying body has declared or designated that DoTERRA’s essential oils are certified pure therapeutic grade.
wingedseed.com/blog/2009/11/19/one-more-time-there-are-no-fda-certified-pure-therapeutic-grade-essential-oils-part-i/“
AND, I ‘smell’ a big fat rat. Sure hope that Huff Post reporter digs deep and follows the money beyond the 5 million.
Is Dr. Douglas Flora doing an impersonation of an MLM leader in the below video? Or my bet, he is one.
youtube.com/watch?v=vPOU6u87uPU
This isn’t just about essential oil bogus health claims. This is about using overpriced pyramid scheme products that cause financial harm to the public – or worse, to cancer patients needing to pay medical bills.
Who is Dr. Flora?
Dr. Doug Flora executive medical director of St. Elizabeth Oncology Services. But also, let’s find out how an MLMer named Nicole Chase recruited him into the DoTerra pyramid scheme. Yep, re my last post, the suspicion is confirmed.
“doTERRA first learned of the St. Elizabeth Cancer Center from Nicole Chase, one of its wellness advocates.
Six years ago Chase, who lives in Burlington, was diagnosed with cancer and was referred to Dr. Flora for treatment….
When Chase learned St. Elizabeth was building a new cancer center her first thought was that she wanted to be a part of that and wanted to help other people treat the whole patient.
“So I reached out and asked (Dr. Flora) if he would take a meeting with me and that’s how it got started,” Chase said.
FLORA SOON CAME ONBOARD and that discussion led to meetings with Dr. Riggs and others from doTerra.”
nkytribune.com/2019/10/objective-of-st-elizabeth-healthcares-partnership-with-doterra-international-is-integrative-cancer-care/
Advertisers, and scammers, love registered trade marks. Remember those old ads for Certs breath mints? Remember the “golden drop of RETSYN*” added to each one?
“Retsyn” was simply their trade marked name for “a combination of partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil, copper gluconate and flavoring.” Yumm.
hsionline.com/2005/03/24/what-the-heck-is-retsyn/
You need to do some serious research yourselves. Instead of already having a negative opinion of the outcome, you need to be openminded enough to do research on legitimate sites, like pubmed.gov that medical clinicians use.
There is a wealth of research that substantiates the validity of essential oils in many areas, including cancer research.
Before you plaster negative propaganda about these partnerships only being money making schemes, research in the legitimate places to find your answers instead of using unfounded speculation.
Feel free to provide one peer-reviewed study pertaining to doTerra’s products and the treatment of cancer.
Or y’know, continue to run around the internet dismissing there being no such studies as pRoPaGaNdA, nEgAtIvE oPiNiOns and “BuT yOu HaVe To Be OpEnMiNdEd”.
Regardless of the research, or lack thereof, it is the unethical scam company that is the issue.
Taking money from a known scam while advertising ridiculously overpriced oils that the company uses to facilitate their con game, to cancer patients no less, makes me vomit. Absolutely shameful.
Have any of you experienced (firsthand) the side-effects of radiology, chemotherapy and THE MOUNTAINS Of meds one single patient is prescribed during their cancer road??????????????
I HAVE.
You know what helped ease the pain, nausea, anxiety, sleeplessness, etc?!?!???!
Take a guess.
Knowing that you’re taking the fight to cancer?
Even for a placebo effect I don’t have a problem with essential oils being supplied to hospitals.
This is advertising though, and in a hospital full of vulnerable cancer patients it’s just wrong.
Currently living nearby (one of my first jobs in the area was at iServe/Pattern/Borderless) but have never been to the Edgewood St. E. Looks like these were planned for every week until the pandemic hit.
stelizabeth.com/events/details/2021/07/06/integrative-oncology-doterra-class
This is disgusting. There’s always strings attached.
Whichever St. Elizabeth Healthcare executive is in doTerra needs to be ousted, preferably by the FTC.