Promoting Wellness and Prevention with NFTs. Transforming Healthcare. Empowering Physicians and Patients.
Promoting Wellness and Prevention. Transforming Healthcare. Empowering Physicians and Patients.
WELLMD® is a membership-based primary care practice laser-focused on prevention.
At WellMD® we focus on three of the core challenges to the United States healthcare system, namely rising costs, poor outcomes, and primary care physician shortages. Our mission has always been to build a primary care delivery system that focuses on prevention.
We believe the doctor-patient relationship is at the heart of good primary care. We’re mission-driven to restore that relationship by reinventing primary care, utilizing preventive medicine, telemedicine, in-office visits with data and technology.
At WELLMD® we are on a mission to prevent chronic disease and help most members reduce prescription drug use and lead longer healthier more productive lives.
Our human-centered, technology-powered model ensures that our members will have the best trained, most talented preventive doctors utilizing the most powerful technology.
"The US healthcare system is broken, piling more and more medication for treating many preventable chronic diseases. I founded WellMD® to try and fix this craziness by utilizing data-driven , evidence-based data, technology, nutrition, and exercise to reduce our reliance on pills and unnecessary treatment, so we can live fuller longer healthier lives."
Leon Hodes
MD,
WELLMD® Founder and CEO
WELLMD® was founded in 1999 by Dr Leon Hodes, a Board Certified practicing physician on Long Island, New York, specializing in internal medicine and prevention. Early in his medical career, Dr Hodes became fascinated how chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer and dementia could be curtailed and even prevented with lifestyle modification. Dr Hodes started focusing on the root cause of disease rather than just treating the symptoms, and started helping his patients adopt and sustain healthy behaviors that would improve quality of life.
With the WELLMD® methodology he found great success prescribing personalized exercise programs and nutritional lifestyle and stress management protocols.
At WELLMD® we focus on our core principles, the CARMA methodology (Connections, Activity, Rest, Mindfulness, Avoidance)
These 5 principles are lifestyle choices that we all make every day, that overtime affect our overall health.
Our job as physicians and providers at WELLMD® are to make sure you make these choices in order to optimize your health. One of the hallmarks of the WELLMD® methodology is to utilize evidence based data based on legitimate scientific studies.
WELLMD® has incorporated technology such as remote monitoring of lifestyle data and biometrics, and has designed an intelligent system to empower our doctors to utilize this lifestyle data to help our patients prevent disease and live longer happier lives.
Technology is constantly advancing, but at WELLMD® we are aware that a strong doctor patient relationship is at the core of our values.
