Editing Patch Adams (section)

===Gesundheit! Institute===
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| founder = Hunter "Patch" Adams
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| location = [[Hillsboro, West Virginia]], U.S.
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| key_people = Chair, Cari Brackett, Pharm.D<br />John T. Glick, MD<br />Susan R. Parenti, DMA<ref>{{cite web |url=http://patchadams.org/board |title=Leadership Team: Board |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911023639/http://patchadams.org/board |archive-date=September 11, 2013 |url-status=dead |access-date=July 15, 2020}}</ref>
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Soon after graduation, Patch, his wife Linda, and friends started to develop the ideas that eventually led to The Gesundheit! Institute. Originally as the Zanies, they ran as a communal "home" from 1971 to 1984. In 1989 Gesundheit! Institute was founded as a not-for-profit, and has continued to develop to this day. Based in Adams' rural West Virginia property, the institute has since been devoted to fundraising. The latest plan is for a 44-bed community hospital building that will offer free holistic care to "anyone who wants it", along with a teaching facility that can accommodate "120 staff, all living together in the communal ecovillage".<ref name="ic.org">{{cite web | url=https://www.ic.org/the-gesundheit-institute-a-45-year-old-communal-hospital-experiment/ | title=The Gesundheit! Institute: A 45 Year-Old Communal Hospital Experiment | date=September 2016 }}</ref>

Fees from the 1998 movie "made it possible to build three beautiful buildings... in preparation for the big buildings we want for the hospital". These are a farmhouse, workshop and [[dacha]] that accommodate the workshops and courses offered by the institute. The educational philosophy is contained in their "School for Designing a Society (SDaS) – for people who want to change society by means of desire, design, and composition..." and includes courses on caring and workshops on clowning.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.patchadams.org/education/ | title=Education }}</ref>

Adams was awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award on January 29, 1997.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peaceabbey.org/awards/cocrecipientlist.html|title=The Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Recipients List|access-date=July 17, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214172308/http://peaceabbey.org/awards/cocrecipientlist.html|archive-date=February 14, 2009|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In 2008, Adams agreed to become honorary chair of the "International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment" or IAACM. [[MindFreedom International]], a nonprofit coalition that Gesundheit! belongs to as a sponsor group, launched the IAACM to support "creative maladjustment" and social change.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/events/2008-events/patch-adams-iaacm|title=MindFreedom International launches IAACM|date=January 21, 2008 |access-date=July 17, 2009}}</ref>

Since the 1990s Adams has supported the [[Ithaca Health Alliance]] (IHA) in [[Ithaca, New York]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.patchadams.org/links/ |title=G! Links |access-date=December 16, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061210043633/http://www.patchadams.org/links/ |archive-date=December 10, 2006 |url-status=dead |quote=* Ithaca Health Fund * Member-owned Non-profit Mutual Health Security * www.ithacahealth.org}}</ref> founded as the Ithaca Health Fund (IHF) by [[Paul Glover (activist)|Paul Glover]]. In January 2006, IHA launched the Ithaca Free Clinic, bringing to life key aspects of Adams's vision. Adams has also given strong praise to ''Health Democracy'', Glover's book written and published the same year.

As of 2016, Adams claims to "lecture 300 days out of the year, and have done so for over 30 years in 81 countries, spreading seeds of a love revolution of enlivening community and a call to end capitalism".<ref name="ic.org"/>