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Laura Ellis - Bridges Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine
- Laura Piotrowski Arnold
- 5 hours ago
- 1 min read
“Transformative” isn’t usually a word that’s associated with either healthcare or business, but that’s exactly the kind of healthcare business that Laura Ellis runs. The medicine of ancient East Asia - which includes acupuncture, herbal medicine, cupping, and more - sees health as not just the absence of disease, but as the ability to move from imbalance back to balance.
That’s what transformation is: the ability to move from one state to another. Health is not just giving you a medication or a supplement to fix a lab number: it’s reminding your body how to function so well that you don’t need those medications and supplements in the first place. That is the kind of transformative healthcare that Bridges Acupuncture does and sees on a daily basis.
Since opening its doors in 2016, the clinic has provided over 11,000 treatments and offers the only sliding-scale-based Community Fund for acupuncture in the greater Pittsburgh area to support patients on fixed or limited incomes. Laura also uses the principles of acupuncture to run her clinic behind the scenes: staff are trained on systems that support their work rather than burden them; they’re compensated well so they have freedom to enjoy and engage with their work; and everyone has a voice in company projects and direction to strengthen trust and collaboration.
As one patient put it: “This place feels like healing from the moment you walk in.” Because when a healthcare practice is built on integrity, accessibility, and ancient wisdom, transformation isn’t just possible—it’s inevitable.
2469 Evans City Road Harmony, PA 1603
724-453-4335