Leah Streich, Physician Assistant and Registered Dietitian has a focus on woman’s health, bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, and pediatric care.
Leah offers low stress annual exams with an emphasis on preventive medicine. Leah’s also offers family planning, IUD placement, and nutritional counseling.
As a part of routine well child care, MediCenter is proud to be able to offer preservative free vaccines.
Call MediCenter at 283-9118 to make your appointment today.
MediCenter is a Compassionate Primary Care Guided Medical Home that focuses on going after the cause of disease to help you be independently healthy.
What does this mean and why is it important for you?
MediCenter is Compassionate: With all the changes in healthcare, many people feel that healthcare professionals have lost their ability to relate , connect with, and show compassion to the patient. At MediCenter, our providers don’t hide behind a computer screen while giving a personal exam. They don’t rush off so that they can finish their notes before the next patient. They aren’t afraid to take a little more time to listen to the patient’s needs. At MediCenter, you are our reason for being and when you walk through our door, you are stepping into your medical home where you can be surrounded by those that care for you and look after your wellbeing.
MediCenter is a Primary Care Guided Medical Home: All too often, you as patients receive fragmented healthcare. MediCenter is a medical home where your primary care provider will guide you as the patient all the way from point “A” to point “Z”, and then all the way back to point “A” again. Your primary care providers at MediCenter know and understand that when they send you off to see a specialist, it is still their responsibility to see that you get there and receive the care you need, and then to also follow up afterward. In this day and age, with all the chronic disease going rampant throughout our society, this is needed more than ever. Our primary care providers at the MediCenter will guide you throughout your whole medical experience and will hold your hand throughout the whole journey.
The specialists at MediCenter also work hand in hand with your primary care providers, often consulting with them on your customized healthplan. Most importantly, the specialists that work inside MediCenter are specialists vetted and screened by your primary care providers as specialists that we feel are most effective in helping you become independently healthy. That trust, communication, and coordination creates a center of excellence in healthcare on the Kenai Peninsula like never before!
MediCenter Focuses on Going After the Cause of Disease: The practitioners and staff at the MediCenter have a deep rooted belief and culture that it is not enough to put “bandaids” over symptoms of disease without attempting to search out and treat the root cause of the symptoms. Yes, we prescribe the necessesary medications and treatments to help alleviate symptoms, but we are just as interested in helping you as our patient be rid of the causes of these diseases. We take into account environmental causes, lifestyle, and nutrition as well with each of our patients.
MediCenter wants YOU INDEPENDENTLY HEALTHY: If you are a true professional in healthcare, you have to be interested in working yourself out of a job, Period! It is our complete mission and everything that we stand for to help each of you become and stay independently healthy. If you never needed to see us except for your annual wellness visit, we would be ecstatic! We see this generation in our society getting sicker and sicker and we will not rest until we have helped turn the tide of this threatening Chronic Disease Epidemic and help you and your loved ones become and stay indepently healthy!
Dr. Andrea Trescot is the director of MediCenter Pain Management Services, which is an interventional pain clinic dedicated to relieving both chronic and acute pain through a wide range of minimally-invasive surgical and non-surgical techniques. With an accurate diagnosis, many times the source of pain can be treated with therapeutic treatment to provide long term pain relief.
The Pain and Headache Center works closely with a patient’s primary care physician and other health care professionals to ensure the best possible care. The ultimate goal of the Dr. Andrea Trescot is to minimize or even eliminate opiod dependency through alternative pain treatment methods.
If you are looking for a pain management specialist in Kenai, Soldotna, Kbeach, Homer, Ninilchik, Sterling, or Nikiski, contact us today to schedule an appointment with Dr. Andrea Trescot. She is a board certified anesthesiologist, fellowship trained, and board certified in pain management by both the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians.
Below is a list of common services that Dr. Trescot and her team at the MediCenter have successfully offered:
Join us Friday, January 23rd at 6:30pm for our big DETOX EVENT.
Becca Richardson has created a 10-Day Detox that can help you boost your New Years resolutions to a whole new level. This isn’t some fad diet/detox where you are on total liquids or fasting for “x” amount of days. This can help jumpstart your nutrition, cut the cravings that keep you going back, so you can make good, whole, sustainable choices for years to come.
Sign up at the MediCenter front office or Specialty Clinic.
Join us Friday, January 23rd at 6:30pm for our big DETOX EVENT.
Becca Richardson has created a 10-Day Detox that can help you boost your New Years resolutions to a whole new level. This isn’t some fad diet/detox where you are on total liquids or fasting for “x” amount of days. This can help jumpstart your nutrition, cut the cravings that keep you going back so you can make good, whole, sustainable choices for years to come.
Sign up at the MediCenter front office or Specialty Clinic.
Dr. R Lynn Carlson and The MediCenter Functional Medicine Department is changing healthcare on the Kenai. Many on the Kenai demand top quality care that addresses the whole person and not just an isolated set of symptoms.
Functional Medicine in a nutshell is “Searching for and treating the cause of disease instead of just going after symptoms, incorporating lifestyle, environmental and genetic causes, and eveidence based nutritional medicine.”
Many other leaders in medicine are joining the movement to practice a more evidence based, peer reviewed, functional medicine as well! Read and learn how The Cleveland Clinic, one of the most well known, respected and nationally ranked medical clinics has added Functional Medicine into it’s treatment cycle at https://my.clevelandclinic.org/services/center-for-functional-medicine.
“Functional Medicine is an amazing tool in helping everyone grow and become independently healthy.”
—The Admin
To learn more about functional medicine, or to schedule a visit with one of our medical providers using a “Functional Medicine Approach”, call (907) 283-9118 today!
Do you suffer with Chronic Pain? There is no need for you to suffer in silence.
MediCenter Pain Management with Dr. Andrea Trescot and her team can help.
Hundreds of patients on the Kenai Peninsula have experienced amazing relief to their back, neck,head, joint pain by seeing world renowned pain management expert, Dr. Andrea Trescot. Dr. Trescot is an avid academic and is constantly looking to expand her skill set and the skill set of others and besides being tirelessly devoted to her patients, she serves as “Board Chair” on the advisory board for the World Institute of Pain.
“I severely herniated my L4-5 disk by lifting 150 pounds of stone veneer. I was basically crippled and more than three physicians thought for sure I was bound for surgery. After a few visits with Dr. Trescot, and a few minor procedures and a treatment plan with my Leon, the physical therapist, I feel so much better! I am very fortunate to have landed in Dr. Trescot’s office first and feel lucky to have escaped needing spine surgery.”
Scott
Call MediCenter Specialties today at (907) 335-2490 and schedule a consultation.
Dr. Robert Allen has more than 20 years of experience in both adult and pediatric urology. After undergraduate studies at Emory University he received his medical degree from The Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He then completed a urology residency at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu. After residency, he completed a Pediatric Urology fellowship at the renowned University of Minnesota Medical Center. He has held many positions including urology residency training program director and chief of urology at two major Army medical centers. He has spent over 15 years teaching both urology and pediatric residents. More recently he served as Chief of Urology and Chief of Pediatric Urology at Madigan Army Medical Center in Fort Lewis Washington.
Dr. Allen is a member of many professional societies to include the American Urological Association and the Society of Government Service Urologists. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Urology and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is a recognized expert in pediatric urology and pediatric reconstructive surgery. He has extensive clinical and surgical experience, has participated in many national clinical research trials and has published numerous papers in peer reviewed professional journals and medical texts.
As an academic urologist, Dr. Allen has been privileged to work closely with nationally and internationally renowned urologic surgeons. In addition to his many years in academic urology and a tour in Iraq performing combat trauma surgery he has performed many humanitarian medical missions which have further enhanced his surgical skills and post-operative outcomes.
We welcome Dr. Allen and Alaska Institute Surgical & Medical Specialties bringing quality, compassion, and excellence into the Kenai Peninsula.
When the MediCenter decided to become a Patient Centered Primary Care Home, we knew this transformation could not happen overnight. Since 2010, we have invested time into meetings, trainings, one on one and group discussions for the purpose of teaching our staff what our role is in this new program.
September’s office meeting was lead by Dr. R. Lynn Carlson. He started off by asking the staff, “What makes a great HOME?” At first there was silence. No one wanted to be the first to speak because they feared they would say the wrong answer. Finally someone raised their hand and said, “Love.” Then another, “Comfort……Service…..Encouragement… Trust.” For the next 20 minutes the room was warm with discussion about our own homes and our own families. We talked about sacrifice, honesty, unselfish, loyalty and trust. At the end of our list of 44 points Dr Carlson said, ”This list is what I try to bring to the MediCenter. This is how we all need to be. Our Patients should use these words when describing the level of care we provide.”
Here at the MediCenter we are currently under an internal change. Our goal is to be the best Patient Centered Primary Care Home for the community of the Kenai Peninsula.
We hope you feel at home when you come for your family’s care. Just as importantly, we are striving to provide excellence in care that is only possible when your Primary Care Provider can take the next step and be the “Quarterback” for all your medical needs, making sure you and all the proper information gets to all necessary parties and specialists and gets you all the way from point “A” to point “Z”, and then reports back to you, the patient.
Without that, you may have several clinics, physicians, and support staff working for your family, but no one individual or organization taking on the responsibility of oversight of you and your family’s well being.
—————-“the Admin”
