How to Refer
Our mission is to complement the great care you are providing for your patients.
Through Lifestyle Medicine intervention programs, we will educate, coach, and help them to achieve their wellness goals so they can live their best lives.
A referral to the ELIA Lifestyle Medicine Centre will extend your excellent care and help transform the lives of your patients with the support and lifestyle medicine coaching we can provide. Health Professionals are welcome to refer their patients to the Lifestyle Medicine Centre.
We encourage patients to bring a referral so that we can provide their healthcare team with regular progress updates to maintain best practice continuity of care.
HOW TO REFER:
Referral Letters
Please include a patient health summary, diabetes complication screening, relevant cardiac history, other relevant assessments & any recent pathology results.
Include the ELIA Lifestyle Medicine Centre in your Enhanced Primary Care Plan, GP Management Plan (GPMP) and/or Group Allied Health Referral and address the individual allied health referral to any of our allied health professionals.
We welcome & your participation in our interdisciplinary team care via patient case conferences if necessary.
Contact Us
Send referrals via Healthlink secure message (EDI: ELIAWELL) or you can send the patient referral to elialmc@sah.org.au
Referring doctors are welcome to call the clinic for further information and to determine if the patient is suitable for our clinical programs.
Most chronically ill patients need additional care, motivation and coaching with their physical, emotional, social and spiritual health, and this is where we can help.
We will provide you and your patients with the Lifestyle Medicine resources needed to help them heal.
Lifestyle Medicine recognises the enormous impact that daily habits and actions can have on short and long-term health and quality of life. It recognises the importance and difficulties of behavioural change and the need to develop new goals and habits.
“It challenges many longstanding notions about the role of doctor and patient in maintaining the health of individuals and families and recognises that a patient must be an active participant in, rather than a passive recipient of treatment.”
The ELIA Lifestyle Medicine Centre at Sydney Adventist Hospital will compliment the great care clinicians are providing their patients.
References:
* Danaei, etal (2009). The Preventable Causes of Death in the United States: Comparative Risk Assessment of Dietary, Lifestyle, and Metabolic Risk Factors. PLoS Medicine, [online] 6(4), p.e1000058. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000058.)
** Ford, E. S., et al (2009). Healthy living is the best revenge: findings from the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition-Potsdam study. Archives of internal medicine, 169(15), 1355–1362. https://doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2009.237
*** Li, Y., et al. (2020). Healthy lifestyle and life expectancy free of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort study. BMJ, [online] 368. doi:10.1136/bmj.l6669.