Little Neck primary care physician, Dr. Michael Hundert collaborates with Castle Connolly Private Health Partners to convert his practice to the concierge model, offering patients a more personalized approach to their care.

LITTLE NECK, N.Y., June 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Fort Connolly Personal Well being Companions, LLC (“CCPHP”), a number one membership-based (or “concierge”) medical apply conversion and assist firm, is happy to announce its collaboration with Michael Hundert, MD to create Hundert CCPHP, a concierge medication program along side his present inner medication apply.

Reestablishing a powerful patient-physician relationship

Throughout Dr. Hundert’s 42-year tenure as an internist in Little Neck, New York, he has constructed enduring relationships along with his affected person base. As his apply, positioned at 46-19 Little Neck Pkwy, Little Neck, NY, continued to develop, so did the executive calls for of working and sustaining a non-public apply.

With the sudden emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and rising administrative burdens, Dr. Hundert, like many different non-public inner medication physicians, discovered himself at a crossroads: both proceed to apply high-volume medication, seeing many sufferers a day, however spending a restricted period of time with every of them or let his apply evolve to ship extremely personalised, preventative care and provide an opportunity to empower sufferers with better schooling and knowledge.

“All through my 42 years as a doctor I’ve strived to supply glorious and compassionate medical and have watched 1000’s of lives thrive and proceed to be wholesome due to my dedication and onerous work,” says Dr. Hundert. “Now, I’m excited to have the ability to provide my sufferers a program that gives an elevated connectivity to me and an enhanced strategy to every people’ wellness wants.”

The Hundert CCPHP Membership

The concierge (membership-based) mannequin continues to be a rewarding expertise for physicians and sufferers alike. The elevated time and adaptability permit concierge physicians, like Dr. Hundert, to schedule sufferers for an hour appointment, if desired, moderately than the business common workplace go to time of 11 minutes.

Along with receiving prolonged appointment instances, concierge sufferers of Hundert CCPHP obtain a bunch of added facilities as Members, together with 24/7 connectivity to Dr. Hundert by way of a direct cellphone quantity and a custom-made telehealth app, similar/next-day appointments with restricted as attainable wait instances no matter medical necessity, and a sturdy wellness program known as the SENS Resolution^® Wellness Program powered by CCPHP.

Cultivating affected person wellness and working towards preventative care are intrinsic to the strategy of the concierge mannequin. The elevated conversations and time with sufferers which are a part of this high-touch mannequin of care creates an setting through which Dr. Hundert can deeply focus on medical histories with every of his sufferers.

“The concierge mannequin affords me ample time to spend with my sufferers. I now have the flexibleness to offer every of my Members as a lot of my time as they need to want to debate their medical considerations and options at size,” explains Dr. Hundert.

The CCPHP Partnership

Fort Connolly Personal Well being Companions collaborates with prime physicians nationwide to ascertain concierge medication applications that ship an unmatched healthcare expertise, whereas additionally empowering the Members to realize their optimum wellbeing.

When sufferers turn into Members of Hundert CCPHP, they’re invited to take part within the SENS Resolution^® Wellness Program, a CCPHP program crafted to enhance Members’ total wellbeing by specializing in the 4 pillars of well being: sleep, train, vitamin, and stress administration. This system affords all kinds of Member advantages, the preferred being its personalised well being teaching program out there to Members at no extra value.

The CCPHP well being coaches work in tandem with Dr. Hundert to assist Members attain their particular person well being objectives. In a survey of CCPHP well being teaching contributors, 75 p.c of Members with exercise-oriented objectives reported behavioral modifications after 2 or extra well being teaching classes and 77 p.c Members with nutrition-oriented objectives reported behavioral modifications after 2 or extra teaching classes.

By means of his partnership with CCPHP, Dr. Hundert will even have navigation to the Fort Connolly’s High Physician^® community of almost 60,000 prime acknowledged physicians nationwide. Each acknowledged High Physician^® himself, Dr. Hundert can seek the advice of with and refer sufferers to prime physicians of comparable distinction.

“CCPHP is happy so as to add Dr. Hundert to our roster of excellent concierge physicians,” says Dr. Dean McElwain, President and CEO of CCPHP. “His dedication to his affected person base and the Little Neck neighborhood throughout his 42-year tenure as a non-public apply doctor is commendable.”

About Dr. Hundert

Dr. Michael L. Hundert’s want to apply as an internist stems from his reverence for his Jewish dad and mom, who survived the Holocaust and inspired him to try for greatness. Dr. Hundert was raised in Chicago and went to medical faculty at Rush Medical School, graduating in 1975. He then accomplished an intensive inner medication residency in 1978 in New York on the Cornell-affiliated program at North Shore College and Memorial Hospitals. In 1978, after receiving his inner medication board certification, Dr. Hundert started his non-public apply. Along with caring for his various affected person base, Dr. Hundert was the director of essential care medication at Flushing Hospital from 1980 to 1990. After acquiring a board certification in essential care medication, he then determined to return to major affected person care full time. Due to the character of his apply, Dr. Hundert grew to become board licensed in geriatric medication in 1992, with two subsequent geriatrics board re-certifications in 2004 and 2015.

Dr. Hundert is presently a member of the American School of Physicians, The Medical Society of the State of New York, American Geriatrics Society, and Society of Vital Care Medication. He has additionally been elected as a fellow of the American School of Physicians (FACP), a lifetime award for achievement. Dr. Hundert has been listed as a Fort Connolly High Physician^® since 2014, in addition to in Newsday and different native newspapers as a prime doctor within the Little Neck neighborhood. Dr. Hundert additionally serves the neighborhood by volunteering because the medical director of the Little Neck – Douglaston Group Ambulance Corps.

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