Detroit Community Acupuncture to open clinic at Mid-Med Lofts in November

Detroit Community Acupuncture just signed a lease for a 1,000-square-foot space in the Mid-Med Lofts and will open its doors in November. She aims to make treatments affordable.

"You treat people in one room, which allows you to use space and time more efficiently and charge less," says Nora Madden, the acupuncturist who will be running the clinic. "It's about taking down financial and cultural barriers for people to get alternative medical treatments."

Treatments will be on a sliding scale of $15 to $35 with an additional initial visit fee of $10.

Madden is using a grassroots fund-raising method for her start-up costs. Early local investors, who can chip in via her web site, are reimbursed with treatments once DCA is open. She looks at the method as one that both measures interest in the community and helps to build early clientele.

Madden hails from Lansing but just relocated here a few months ago when her partner received a job offer from Wayne State University. She was also affiliated with a community acupuncture clinic in Santa Cruz, Calif.

Source: Nora Madden, Detroit Community Acupuncture
Writer: Kelli B. Kavanaugh