Team-based preventive medicine
CHRONIC DISEASES OFTEN DEVELOP AS A RESULT OF BAD HABITS BEGUN WHEN YOU ARE HEALTHIEST
It may sound a bit like a paradox but when you’re healthy that’s just the time to start thinking about a prevention plan. Often when we’re feeling great we fail to consider our wellbeing and ways to continue staying healthy. It’s only when we fall ill that we start thinking about what we could have done better and wondering why we didn’t take steps to reduce our risk of disease. But with a little planning it doesn’t have to be that way.
Copeman Healthcare, a prevention-focused medical Centre with clinics in Vancouver and West Vancouver are encouraging folks in the lower mainland to take advantage of their teambased, inter-professional services.
“Our approach is really quite simple,” says Holly Kennedy-Symonds, executive director, “If clients are healthy we want to keep them that way for a very long time. If they’re struggling with an illness we want to get them timely medical expertise and on the road to recovery.”
In 2005 Copeman Healthcare introduced a highly personalized, service-focused approach to health-care. At the time it was a completely new concept in Canada.
Copeman Healthcare delivers excellence in prevention and health management. The Centres offer each client a personalized experience and access to a team of professionals who focus on all aspects of their health. The organization now boasts four Centres in Western Canada that offer the same advanced medicine and outstanding client service that longterm clients have come to expect.
According to founder and Chairman Don Copeman, the company began with a simple premise, “to deliver unparalleled access to medical expertise while providing each patient with a highly personalized and unhurried experience.”
The Copeman Way is a model that integrates the care of physicians with the expertise of an inter-professional team. Psychologists, neuropsychologists, registered dietitians, kinesiologists, exercise medicine specialists, nurses, health coaches and other specialized professionals work together to prevent, detect and manage all types of diseases. Central to the Copeman Way is the philosophy of treating the whole person — placing an emphasis not just on physical health, but also psychological health and brain health. While psychological health focuses on the experiences, attitudes, thoughts and emotions of a patient, brain health looks at the organ of the brain.
Copeman offers brain health assessments and rehabilitation for injuries, concussion, stroke, Alzheimer’s, vascular dementia and other brain related changes.
In addition to the integrated services, all members have access to a computerized Health Management System, which is a secure, online personal health record combined with sophisticated risk assessments, health surveillance and self-management tools.
Changes in laboratory results and other health measures trigger personalized reminders about risk factors and transmit trends to the patient’s health team.