2026 Reorganization Notice
If it’s Holistic, If it’s Healing, It’s Here. Our website will return when the reorganization is complete; this page is the Association’s notice in the meantime.
What the Stewardship Council decided
On October 23, 2026, the Stewardship Council of the Integrative Providers Association, by vote of a convened quorum, ratified the reorganization of the Association. Management control of the Association during the reorganization is assigned to MSOplus, and Compassion Center, the Association’s founding member organization, and MSOplus are tasked with carrying the reorganization through.
Under the reorganization, every appointment with the Association ended uniformly at the effective time, without regard to the person or the role, and there is one pathway back into service, which runs through Compassion Center’s Office of Accountability & Transparency. Prior service confers neither priority nor exclusion.
What Happened?
Julie “Nurse Juhlzie” Monteiro, RN, BSN, was the Association’s President, a fearless advocate, and a pollinator for organizations that are operating today and measurably improving the systems that serve categorically complex, terminally ill, and underserved people. Across the years that produced IPAC2023, the Association came through a pandemic, a run of regulatory change, and sustained disagreement with institutional partners over what integrative curriculum should be, and it did so on a program bench that turned out to be only two people, each the other’s only backup across every single education and conference role. One of those two was Julie. The other was her administrative counterpart, whose passion was to make her impact measurable so that the record would speak for her. He was also her husband. When she died in November 2025, every single role that she held went vacant at once, and every role that he held went unattended with it, because each was the only backup for the other.
The Association accepts that this was its failure, not hers, or his. It let its education series and its conferences rest on two people without a funded program team behind them, it did not pause them when the bench thinned, and it did not say so publicly when it should have. This is the first step to making that right. The Association has chosen not to rebuild that structure as it has proven to be a failing model. The reorganization is the answer: no individual will hold more than three designated roles, no two people will serve as each other’s sole backup, and the Association restarts as a reboot rather than a repair. The IPA education series restarts first under an interim letter of authority, and conferences return only when a program team is funded and in place. The old IPA is being put to bed so the new one can step into its mission and not a mess.
Long live Nurse Juhlzie, and may her light, love, and compassion meet everyone who crosses the threshold from healthy, productive pollinator to a patient needing care.
What continues
- The Association’s education series is being restarted under an interim letter of authority issued for the reorganization period. It is the one function the Association is carrying forward during this time, and the schedule will be announced here when the first session is set.
- Member records are preserved. No new dues are being billed and no renewal is due during the reorganization; members will be contacted directly when the reorganized Association is seated.
- The Association’s obligations under law and contract continue to be met, and its mission and name are preserved under the reorganized structure.
What is paused
- New memberships, programs, conferences, sponsorships, continuing-education offerings other than the education series, and partnerships. Any proposal received during the reorganization is held for the reorganized Association to consider.
- Public communications in the Association’s name other than this page and the education-series announcements.
- Dues billing, donations and sponsorship solicitations. The Association is not billing or soliciting during the reorganization; please disregard any invoice or solicitation in its name.
Members, prospective members, and anyone interested in serving
Because Compassion Center and MSOplus are conducting the reorganization, the Association does not have its own intake during this period. Former team members, faculty, volunteers, and anyone who wants to be considered for service with the reorganized Association register through Compassion Center’s uniform pathway. Members with a question about their membership, and vendors, regulators, funders, and media, use the same page to submit an inquiry.
When you register, name the Integrative Providers Association so your submission is routed to the Association’s file. Registering is a request to be considered; it is not an appointment.
Timeline
October 23, 2026
Reorganization ratified by the Stewardship Council, by vote of a convened quorum.
Reorganization period
Management by MSOplus; appointments ended; uniform pathway open; education series restarting under an interim letter of authority.
On completion
The reorganized Association is seated under its charters, members are contacted, and this website returns.
Integrative Providers Association is a nonprofit professional membership association serving licensed healthcare professionals across the integrative disciplines. Compassion Center is its founding member organization. This notice speaks for the Association only and is maintained by Compassion Center and MSOplus during the reorganization.
Updated October 30, 2026 · compassion-center.org/2026-reorganization