Carly Willeford, is a board certified family nurse practitioner with a call to specialize in community ministry work that utilizes not only her education & nursing experience but incorporates a faith-based local ministry model that contributes to, and improves public & community wellness. Carly Willeford was in practice as a mental health specialists in her early days as a Social Worker before she obtained her nursing credentials. With a heart for global missions the Willeford family has participated in extensive foreign medical & surgical mission trips as well as volunteered at local free medical and dental clinics.

Carly Willeford DNP, MS, FNP, RN, BSN, BSW has a life-long focused in the area of evidenced-based preventative healthcare. The critical understanding of the function and alterations in metabolism, coupled with the need to apply conservative therapies such as nutrition and lifestyle changes that optimize and modulate physiology. Ms. Willeford has a special place in her heart for the elderly population in her rural health community that are reached and served via partnering with the local congregations, and churches. The elderly population is very vulnerable to the burdens of medical cost and medication side effects due to the "poly-medications/poly-pharmacy" driven model coupled with their serious and advanced co-morbidities.

Carly Williford's Ministry teaches patients in community class settings, and utilizes tele-health consulting in efforts to improve critical risk factors. Many patients in community (in addition too) their chronic medical diagnoses' also struggle with pain management issues, chronic depression, loneliness, anxiety, opioid use disorders/substance abuse addictions and mental health conditions, that become a "barrier to care" in and of themselves. When patients experience chronic depression symptoms with little relief from medications, they stop implementing their home lifestyle strategies and worse may require leaving their home if a fall occurs and in up living in long term care facilities.

Examples of preventative medicine strategies include:
Home Mold testing and treatment, partnerships with faith community resources, practical (affordable) lifestyle changes, recognition of environmental and dietary toxic burdens, detoxification strategies, improvement of required minerals, vitamins, fatty acids, amino acids, co-factors, enzymes, antioxidants, vitamin D, hormone balance and addressing the gut microbiome.

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Medical Errors Must Be Reduced

Health-care requires an integrative focused approach with the patient seated at the center. Seriously ill persons all too often report they feel ignored, silenced or misunderstood in our modern medical institutions. Click here for study

The most important part of any prevention strategy is to reduce medical error and cost.
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A 2020 study showed that high medical mistakes with serious consequences are most likely to occur in ICU's OR's and Emergency Departments (ED). Of those reporting that they experienced medical error - 73% indicated that were actually injured by the error. Health-care requires an integrative focused approach with the patient seated at the center.