Welcome
The SIU Center for Healthy Aging and Wellness offers comprehensive care to older adults and individuals struggling with substance use or those seeking alternative care in Springfield and the surrounding area.
Our goal is to provide you with individualized, compassionate care, help you live a healthy, productive life and improve or maintain your well-being, comfort and quality of life.
Services
We are committed to our patients and continue to follow them as they transition through various levels of care. We provide services in the office, patient homes, hospitals, rehabilitation units, assisted living facilities, memory care facilities, long-term care facilities, as well as via telehealth visits.
We offer a broad range of comprehensive services at our clinic including but not limited to:
- Primary care
- Complex medical management
- Annual Medicare Wellness Visits
- Memory & Cognitive evaluations
- Walking/gait disorders
- Imbalance and falls
- Frailty Assessments
- Medication management
- Wound Care
- Care of the homebound patient
- Advance Care Planning
- Palliative Care
- Case Management
Substance use disorders are chronic diseases, like diabetes or high blood pressure. A person with a substance use disorder can regain a healthy and productive life with treatment.
At the SIU Center for Healthy Aging and Wellness, we offer Medication Assisted Recovery (MAR), therapy, and other supportive services, to help patients manage substance use disorders and move forward in their recovery.
The center treats qualified patients with one of the most commonly used opioid use disorder medications, buprenorphine (Suboxone). Buprenorphine helps to normalize brain chemistry, block the euphoric effects of alcohol and opioids, relieve physiological cravings and normalize body functions. It is safe for long-term use. To learn more visit the MAR page.
Benefits
MAR helps reduce physical dependency on opioids while decreasing cravings and urges. MAR also lowers the risk of overdose.
Requirements
Participation in our MAR program requires patients to adhere to medical visits as well as attend behavioral therapy sessions based at the center. Additional treatment recommendations may be recommended and will be based on each patient’s unique needs.
At the SIU Center for Healthy Aging and Wellness, restorative medicine is an umbrella term that encompasses all fields of medicine that work with the body's physiology and innate ability to heal in order to restore function and help prevent and treat diseases.
These therapies may include:
Dietary changes
Lifestyle modifications
Herbal treatment
Supplements
Acupuncture
Manual manipulation mindfulness exercises
Acupuncture and East Asian Medicine can treat a wide range of conditions and areas of the body, including the respiratory system, eye/ear/mouth/sinus disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, cardiovascular conditions, neurological and musculoskeletal disorders, pain, reproductive and gynecological conditions, and mental/emotional concerns.
The Restorative Medicine Clinic is open to all ages.
Our team
A federally qualified health center (FQHC)
The SIU Center for Family Medicine is designated as a Federally Qualified Health Center or FQHC. We have a governing board composed of patients and community members to help us serve the needs of the people of Springfield and other central and southern Illinois communities that we serve. In addition, our FQHC status enables us to offer special programs for low income and uninsured patients. We offer expert, convenient care to entire families, regardless of their ability to pay. Learn more about our program as well as our financial assistance options.