Laboratory Services

Lab services at WholeHealth Chicago include an extensive array of both conventional and functional tests to assist us in assessing your state of health. Blood samples are most often used for testing but urine, saliva, and stool samples may be utilized for more specialized procedures.

Elizabeth Yamat, CMA

Our Services

At WholeHealth Chicago our patients have access to providers who use an integrative and functional medicine model. Functional medicine is a real paradigm shift in the practice of health care. Instead of the traditional disease-centered focus of conventional medicine, functional medicine practitioners apply a patient-centered approach that addresses the whole person–not simply isolated symptoms.

Our Practitioners

We have assembled an outstanding group of practitioners here at WholeHealth Chicago, men and women all seasoned practitioners in their areas of expertise. By working with each other for years, they’re dedicated to our model of integrative health care.

Janet Chandler, PhD, CGP Clinical Psychology
Jennifer Davis, LPC Licensed Professional Counselor
David Edelberg, MD Internal Medicine
Alaina Gemelas, DC Chiropractic Medicine; Functional Medicine
Sujatha Mannal, B.H.M.S Homeopathy
Cliff Maurer, DC Chiropractic Medicine
Katie McManigal Family Nurse Practitioner
Katie Huff Oberlin, HTCP Healing Touch Certified Practitioner, Shamanic Healer
Wendy A. Ploegstra, APN, FNP Nurse Practitioner
Christine Savas, LPC Licensed Professional Counselor
Caley Scott, ND Naturopathic Medicine
Mari Stecker, BA, LAc, Acupuncture
Sandra Subotich Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine
Olivia Wagner, MS,RDN, LDN, IFNCP Clinical Nutrition
Elizabeth Yamat Case Manager / IV Therapies
Renee Zambo, 500HR RYT Yoga Therapist

In order to maintain your continuity of care, WholeHealth Chicago now offers telemedicine appointments with most of our practitioners. During a telemedicine visit, you and your healthcare provider can review medical history, discuss symptoms, arrange for prescriptions, and more. When necessary, labs and diagnostic imaging can be ordered from a facility near your home, and our Natural Apothecary can ship supplements quickly to your door.

Please contact Patient Services for details and scheduling a telemedicine appointment, or to change a regular appointment to telemedicine by calling 773-296-6700.

We’re looking forward to meeting with you in our virtual consultation room soon.

Far and away, the commonest phone call/e mail I receive asks about COVID-19 diagnosis.
Just print this out, tape it on your refrigerator door, and stay calm.

ALLERGIES
• Runny nose
• Sneezing
• Red, swollen eyes
• Itchy eyes and nose
• Tickly throat
• No fever

COLD
• Runny nose
• Sneezing
• Sore throat
• Mild muscle aches
• Mild dry cough
• Rarely a low fever

STREP THROAT
• Painful sore throat
• Hurts to swallow
• Swollen glands in neck
• Fever

FLU (Standard seasonal flu)
• Fever
• Dry cough (no mucus)
• Sudden onset over few hours
• Headache
• Sore throat
• Fatigue, sometimes quite severe
• Muscle aches, sometimes quite severe
• Rarely, diarrhea

CORONAVIRUS-COVID 19
• Shortness of breath
• Fever (usually above 100 degrees)
• Dry cough (no mucus)
• Slow onset (2-14 days)
• Mild muscle aches
• Mild fatigue
• Mild sneezing

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