The Story behind Acumen Health Clinics

Upon returning from China in March 1989, I decided to open my own practice in Hollywood and rented office space from a DC. That office was known for the first next 11 years as “Migdali Acupuncture Center, your Haven in Hollywood”.

In 1990 I met an Israeli man, Moshe Barkan that was studying acupuncture. We immediately liked each and he begun apprenticing in the Hollywood office. As Moshe graduated with top honors and decided to join the office, we needed to come up with a new name. The name we chose was Acumen Health Centers.

The dictionary defines acumen as: Keenness and depth of perception, discernment, or discrimination esp. in practical matters. We both felt that the name represented how we wanted to practice and evoked positive feelings from all that heard it.

With Moshe’s wonderful business energy the practice has grown, we purchased the Simi Valley office in September 2000, and begun a brand new acupuncture/ Chiropractic office in Beverly Hills. Our family of practitioners has grown 6 and our patient load kept increasing.

After 5 years of operating a multi offices business, I decided that I wanted to simplify my life. We made arrangement to sell the Beverly Hills office to Eun Chung and her husband Peter and Moshe stayed to practice in the Hollywood office. In April 2005 I begun operating on my own in Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks under our new name Acumen Health Clinics.