• direct patient care home
  • about the provider & staff
  • schedule an appointment
  • forms
  • Walk-in services with fees
  • Becoming a Member or Patient
  • Member services
  • Functional Medicine & Integrative Services
  • Weight Loss Program
  • Small Business Owners
  • Healthy Living
  • COVID-19 Testing
  • patient and community education
  • contact us
  • blog
  • FAQs
  • Mental Health Counseling
  • Health Coaching
  • Functional Nutrition
THRIVE DIRECT HEALTH CARE
  • direct patient care home
  • about the provider & staff
  • schedule an appointment
  • forms
  • Walk-in services with fees
  • Becoming a Member or Patient
  • Member services
  • Functional Medicine & Integrative Services
  • Weight Loss Program
  • Small Business Owners
  • Healthy Living
  • COVID-19 Testing
  • patient and community education
  • contact us
  • blog
  • FAQs
  • Mental Health Counseling
  • Health Coaching
  • Functional Nutrition
THRIVE DIRECT HEALTH CARE

Family Medicine

Family Medicine provides the most variety of services to you as an individual or as a member of a family. From infancy to older adult and everything in between, being able to provide primary care services is a rewarding experience as a provider often following patients throughout their lifespan. It is more than just impacting your health...it is building a relationship and the essence of trust with you as the driver and me as the instructor. Find some common services below. 

Common Primary Care Services Offered

No extra charge to members (++ required premium Membership)
  • Health Promotion
    • Weight Loss strategies
    • Nutrition guidance
    • Hormone Balance - Simple
  • Preventative Care
    • Annual Visits
    • Newborn Care
    • Well Child Check Ups
    • Immunizations (available at cost, often reimbursable) or exemptions
    • Nutrition guidance
  • Women's health
    • Women’s Exam
    • Family Planning including contraceptive counseling
    • Prenatal Care
    • Pregnancy care--if low risk--up to 36 weeks. I do not deliver babies but can help you find a midwife or OB.
    • Hormone Balance*
  • Men's Health
  • Sports Physicals or Job Physicals & DOT Physicals
  • Mental Health Visits++
  • Occupational Medicine including at cost TB screening or Tetanus (Tdap) injections

Lab Draws & Other Tests

IN HOUSE:
Labs:
  • urinalysis (free for members), 
  • blood glucose tests (free for members)
  • pregnancy tests (free for members)
  • stool occult blood tests 
  • other selected tests at wholesale
    • ​rapid strep test, rapid flu, rapid Covid

Other labs available for reduced cost
  • ​Allergy Testing
  • Hormones
  • STIs​​​
  • Urine cultures
  • ​Blood allergy testing
  • many more...
  • In office lab draws or draw offsite: 
    • ​Other blood work and diagnostic tests at markedly reduced cost. See list in office. 

I can also get many of your medical supply needs at wholesale value. 
...Among other services
  • Acute Care: non-emergency illness and injuries,
  • Minor Procedures*
    • Suturing
    • Casts/Splints
    • Trigger Point Injections++
    • Skin Biopsies
    • Simple Cyst removal
    • among others ...
  • Complex Chronic Care:
    • Hypertension/High Cholesterol
    • Asthma/COPD
    • CHF - Heart Failure
    • Diabetes
    • Depression/Anxiety
    • Pediatric Disease Management
    • Chronic Pain Management (multi-modal approach)
  • Palliative Care++
  • Hospice++






IN HOUSE Diagnostics
(free for DIRECT PLUS members):
  • EKG
  • Sleep Apnea Home Study* ++
  • Holter Monitoring (24 hour)* - coming soon
  • Spirometry (COPD diagnostic)* ++
*requires 6 month minimum of membership

I do not admit patients to any hospital, nor do I follow my patients in the hospital setting.
I can however make arrangements for patients to be admitted to a hospital of choice.
​I would however be happy to visit you and your family when you are in the hospital. 
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