How Integrated Care Works
Coordinated healthcare that treats the whole person
A Coordinated Approach to Your Family's Health
Integrated care means your healthcare providers work together as one team, sharing information and coordinating treatment to address all aspects of your health. Instead of managing separate appointments with different specialists who may not communicate with each other, you experience seamless care where every provider understands your complete health picture.
This approach is particularly valuable for families, where health concerns often interconnect across family members and different areas of health influence each other. When your medical doctor, dentist, and allied health professionals collaborate, they can identify connections that might be missed in traditional healthcare settings and provide more effective, efficient treatment.
Medical Care
Comprehensive Primary Care
Our medical team provides complete primary healthcare for all family members, from newborn check-ups to senior wellness visits. We focus on preventative care, managing chronic conditions, and addressing acute health concerns with a thorough understanding of how these issues affect your overall wellbeing and family life.
Regular health assessments include comprehensive screenings that look beyond immediate symptoms to identify risk factors and opportunities for prevention. Our approach considers your family history, lifestyle factors, and personal health goals to create personalized care plans that evolve with your needs over time.
Integrated Health Monitoring
Because we coordinate with your dental and allied health providers, our medical team has a complete picture of your health status. This integration allows us to identify connections between medical conditions and dental health, recognize how physical therapy progress affects chronic pain management, and understand how mental health support impacts your overall medical outcomes.
When medical concerns arise, we can quickly coordinate with other members of your care team to ensure that treatments are complementary and that all aspects of your health are considered in medical decision-making.
Family-Centered Medical Care
Medical care that considers family dynamics and relationships often produces better outcomes. We understand how family health history, lifestyle patterns, and caregiving responsibilities affect individual health decisions and treatment success.
Our medical approach includes support for family caregivers, coordination of care for family members with complex needs, and education that helps families make informed health decisions together.
Dental Care
Comprehensive Dental Services
Our dental team provides complete oral healthcare for all ages, from first teeth to advanced dental needs in older adults. We emphasize preventative dentistry, regular cleanings, and early intervention to maintain optimal oral health throughout life. Our services include routine check-ups, preventive treatments, restorative dentistry, and oral health education tailored to each family member's needs.
We understand that dental anxiety is common, especially in children and adults who have had difficult dental experiences. Our team creates a calm, supportive environment and uses gentle techniques to ensure that dental visits are comfortable and stress-free for the whole family.
Oral Health and Overall Health Connection
Research consistently shows strong connections between oral health and overall health. Our integrated approach means that your dental team communicates with your medical providers about conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and autoimmune disorders that can affect oral health, and oral infections that may impact overall health.
This coordination is particularly important for patients with chronic conditions, those taking medications that affect oral health, and families with genetic predispositions to certain dental conditions. By working together, your care team can provide more effective treatment and prevention strategies.
Family Dental Education
Good oral hygiene habits established early in life provide lifelong benefits. Our dental team provides comprehensive education for parents about infant and child oral care, helps establish effective home care routines, and offers guidance on nutrition choices that support dental health.
We also coordinate with your medical team when dental health education intersects with overall health education, ensuring that families receive consistent, comprehensive guidance about how oral health fits into overall wellness strategies.
Allied Health
Physiotherapy and Movement Health
Our physiotherapy services address movement problems, injury recovery, and pain management with a focus on helping families stay active and engaged in the activities they enjoy. We provide assessment and treatment for sports injuries, workplace injuries, chronic pain conditions, and age-related mobility challenges.
Because we work closely with your medical team, our physiotherapists have access to your complete health information, allowing them to design treatment programs that complement your medical care and consider any health conditions that might affect your recovery or ongoing treatment needs.
Mental Health and Psychology Support
Mental health is an essential component of overall health, and our psychology services are seamlessly integrated with your medical and dental care. We provide counseling, therapy, and mental health support for individuals and families dealing with anxiety, depression, life transitions, chronic illness adaptation, and relationship challenges.
The integration of mental health services means that your medical team can quickly coordinate with mental health providers when medical conditions have psychological impacts, and mental health providers can work with medical teams when mental health concerns have physical health implications.
Specialized Allied Health Services
Depending on your family's needs, we coordinate with specialized allied health providers including dietitians for nutrition counseling, occupational therapists for daily living skills, and other specialists who can support your health goals. This coordination ensures that all aspects of your care work together effectively.
When multiple allied health services are needed, we coordinate appointment scheduling, share relevant information between providers, and ensure that treatment plans are complementary rather than contradictory.
Care Coordination
Shared Electronic Health Records
All members of your care team have access to your integrated health record, which includes medical history, dental records, allied health notes, and treatment plans. This shared information system ensures that every provider has a complete picture of your health status and can make informed decisions about your care.
When you visit any provider in our integrated system, they can see recent visits with other team members, current medications, test results, and ongoing treatment plans. This reduces the need to repeat information at every appointment and helps prevent medication interactions or contradictory treatments.
Team Communication and Planning
Our care team meets regularly to discuss complex cases, coordinate treatment plans, and ensure that all providers are working toward the same health goals for each family. These team discussions are particularly valuable for families with multiple health concerns, chronic conditions, or complex care needs.
Care coordination extends to appointment scheduling, where we can arrange multiple appointments on the same day when appropriate, coordinate timing of treatments and procedures, and ensure that follow-up care happens smoothly across all providers.
Patient and Family Communication
Coordinated care means coordinated communication with patients and families. Instead of receiving separate information from each provider, families receive integrated communication about their care plans, treatment progress, and health education that considers all aspects of their health.
When questions or concerns arise, our care coordination system ensures that you can get answers that consider all aspects of your care, not just one specialty area. This comprehensive communication reduces confusion and helps families make informed decisions about their health.
The Benefits of Integrated Care
Families who experience integrated care report higher satisfaction, better health outcomes, and reduced stress around managing healthcare. By coordinating services and communication, we reduce the burden on families while providing more comprehensive, effective care.
Integrated care also tends to be more cost-effective, as coordination reduces duplicate testing, prevents contradictory treatments, and emphasizes prevention to avoid more expensive interventions later.