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-: Welcome to the Optum Care Community Center.
You must be here for your Annual Wellness Visit.
Our nurse practitioner, Elaine, is ready to see you.
Would you like to follow me back into the clinic?
-: Hello, I'm Elaine. Will you join me in the exam room.
We're here for the Annual Wellness Visit,
and I wanna speak a little bit about what that is
and what it isn't.
Contrasted to something you may be quite familiar with,
the annual physical exam
that takes place in your primary care's office.
That is something that happens every year.
It's a head to toe physical access assessment
where you can actually expect
to be examined by your provider.
And you're very familiar with that.
You'll also go over your medication lists.
They'll look at any diagnostic testing you may need
for that year to keep those other chronic conditions
in check if you will.
Where today we're gonna have an Annual Wellness Visit,
and that is actually a dialogue,
a conversation between you and I looking at
what is in your own current history,
what you have risk factors from based on family history
and consider surgical history that you've had in the past.
We'll also look at some of your social behaviors
and see how they're impacting your overall health.
It gives us an opportunity to examine where do we go next.
One of the things we may do while we're here
is look at certain types of screening exams
based on the conversation that we've had
that would help us move to that next level
of getting you to be in a state of prevention.
Certain things may be triggers for me.
If I know that you have a family history of diabetes
I may wanna explore that
and look at what testing may be warranted for that.
Additionally, if you're gonna tell me
that perhaps you have a smoking history
or you're at need for possibly a little weight loss,
how can we partner with you to get you on a plan
to get again for you to be the best you possible.
And so, other parts of the exam
that we can expect to happen today
or ready to get your height and weight,
we're gonna take your blood pressure,
we are going to look at what's called the BMI
that'll help us understand where your weight is,
very simple.
Not invasive testing at all
but it helps us as an example to gain more information,
to help move that preventative plan forward for you,
keeping your future as bright as possible.
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Let's get started.