Parkinson’s Elevated

Funded by generous philanthropic gifts Parkinson’s Elevated is an initiative to create a proactive value-based model of Parkinson’s care that will focus on comprehensive health maintenance.  People with Parkinson’s often struggle to get diagnosed, find high quality care, and to coordinate their care between different subspecialists. Many specialists are often involved because Parkinson’s affects every organ system in the body.  The Parkinson’s Elevated program is designed to provide all encompassing care for people with Parkinson’s centered around the patient and their family. Parkinson’s Elevated is being built to bring the first several steps of subspecialist care into the same clinic, thus eliminating the coordination patients often have to do between multiple different physicians and locations. Parkinson’s Elevated will also include differing clinical interventions based on disease state. For people in early to middle stage Parkinson’s the program will include high-intensity aerobic exercise.  To-date aerobic exercise is the only treatment with evidence that it might slow down Parkinson’s Disease.