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A Holistic Approach

Premier Healthcare Founders Stress Importance of Integrated Care

If you look good, you feel good. If you feel good, you look good.

Put another way, Premier Healthcare (PremierHealthcareOK.com) founders Roy Slootheer, APRN-CNP, and his wife, Amber Redding-Slootheer, DNP, APRN-CNP—both certified family nurse practitioners—are strong believers in a holistic approach to health that focuses on both physical and mental health, with a healthy diet and regular exercise playing a central role.

Mental and physical health often go hand-in-hand, and he and his wife and partner, Amber Redding-Slootheer, DNP, APRN-CNP, take an integrated approach—both in their personal lives and in caring for the patients. Premier Healthcare was founded in 2020 at its current location in south Oklahoma City.

Some of the holistic services offered at Premier Healthcare include weight-loss counseling (including medications), hormone replacement therapy, advice on nutritional supplements, Acoustic Wave Therapy for ED, EMsculpt NEO (a new body-shaping procedure), a non-invasive pelvic floor stimulation therapy for pelvic floor muscle training for men and women that assists with incontinence, and sexual health issues.

Summer is upon us, and for many, that means visits to the pool or beaches, resulting in more visits from both male and female patients looking for faster, safe ways to lose weight and firm up.

After trying it first themselves to ensure its effectiveness, the clinic now offers EMsculpt NEO treatments for their patients. Roy describes it as “a noninvasive, state-of-the-art machine that uses radio frequencies, combined with high-frequency electromagnetic pulses, to achieve 30% fat loss and a 25% increase in muscle mass.” It can be used on the stomach, love-handles, calves, quads, hamstrings, glutes and arms.

“EMsculpt NEO has proven for many to have amazing results,” Roy said, noting that both he and his wife have personally seen impressive results from it, including flatter stomachs and more toned muscle.

Many Premier Healthcare patients report high success rates in the clinic’s well-established weight-loss program, which they have offered since the clinic’s opening in 2020.

“We have many patients who closely follow our advice—including our personalized nutrition and exercise plan, detox/cleansing and fasting regimens—that have lost 50 to 60 pounds,” Roy said, noting that they plan to soon offer another weapon in the weight-loss arsenal, semaglutide, to their patients. The injectable drug, initially only used as diabetes medication, was approved in 2021 by the Food and Drug Administration to treat chronic weight management in the 70% of American adults who are obese or overweight. 

Roy derives tremendous satisfaction in helping his patients attain their general health and weight-loss goals—important steps in achieving and maintaining a high quality of life.

“Outer appearance is more import to men than most people think,” he said. “The EMsculpt Neo is one way we can help our male patients achieve their body image goals and increase their overall confidence.”

Roy and Amber are positive models for this holistic approach to life, one tenant of which is maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

Roy is passionate about writing—both fiction and non-fiction. In one of his first endeavors, Broken Glass, Roy recounts his journey alongside his late wife after her diagnosis and, ultimately, losing battle with Stage 4 lung cancer.

He and Amber also love traveling, especially to places with great beaches. “Italy has stolen our hearts,” he confesses, noting that they even have an Italian Greyhound.

About Premier Healthcare

Premier Healthcare, 12208 S. Western Ave., Suite B, Oklahoma City, OK 73170, is open 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Thursday (closed for lunch from 12:30-1:30 p.m.); 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Fridays; and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays. Appointments are preferred, though walk-ins are accepted. In addition to those services listed above, the clinic offers annual wellness exams, sports physicals, flu/COVID and strep testing, vaccinations, treatment for minor injuries, and more. Visit PremierHealthcareOK.com or call 405) 735.3135 to make an appointment and/or for more information.

“Outer appearance is more important to men than most people think. The EMsculpt Neo is one way we can help them achieve their body image goals and increase their overall confidence.”

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