About Us
The Beyond Experience
We want to go beyond your expectations for healthcare supplying you with a comfortable place where your mind and body can find true healing.
Our Vision
At Beyond Health and Wellness Center our vision is to create a collaborative, integrative medical center that focuses on providing comprehensive healthcare to the Thumb area and beyond. We want it to feel less like a sterile doctors office and more like an escape from the stress of life, while receiving an unparalleled healthcare experience.
As the community needs grow, our vision is to add additional health care professionals to better serve the community and our patients. We expand the concept of health to go beyond medical services by providing the community with resources to enable them to live with healthier, more enjoyable lives through working with the local community to establish healthy food options, improve farmers’ markets, support local business, and collaborate with other forms of healthcare.
Providing for all of the health and wellness needs of our community.
Our Values
What to expect from us
Lifelong health
At Beyond we help patients of all ages and stages of life. We aim to address the root cause of your health concerns and teach you the skills you need to maintain your health, long-term. Good health is not just the absence of disease, but a state of physical, mental-emotional, socioeconomic, spiritual and environmental well-being.
Patient-centered care
At Beyond, you will be listened to and treated with dignity and respect. You will be offered treatment options that honor your preferences and that are tailored to you. For more information, feel free to call, e-mail or come in to explore what we can offer you.
Informed consent and health education
As health care providers we are sworn to assist and encourage others to strengthen their health and reduce risks for disease. Health education and informed consent establish trust and give you the power to decide what’s right for you.
Confidentiality and professionalism
At our clinic we hold ourselves to the highest standards of confidentiality and professionalism so
that you can have complete confidence in our care.
Simple and effective healthcare solutions
Our goal is to target and treat the root cause of your health concerns in a way that is simple, cost-effective, and minimally disruptive.
Our Principles
How we make decisions
Excellence in patient care
At Beyond we are committed to providing excellence in patient care. We aim to do this by:
- Providing a broad range of health services to encourage and empower our patients to achieve their health goals.
- Honouring our values: patient-centred care, informed consent and education, confidentiality and professionalism, simple and effective healthcare solutions, and lifelong health.
- Listening to the needs of our patient base.
Environmental awareness
As responsible and conscientious health care providers we are sworn to preserve the health of our planet for ourselves, our families and for future generations. At Beyond we aim to be environmentally conscious in:
- Choosing the products, services, and programming we offer at the clinic.
- Offering educational programming that fosters a connection with nature; offering information about the medicinal plants that grow locally in our community.
- Offering educational programming about environmental pollutants, their impact on our health, and what we can do about it locally and globally.
- Offering educational programming about environmental sustainability and the ways that the community can play their part in preserving the environment.
Community-building
At Beyond we value the community and want to enrich and improve it from within and outside of our organization by:
- Valuing collaboration, mutual respect, and diversity.
- Providing informative and engaging classes, seminars, office wellness programs, speaking engagements, and written articles on health topics that are important to our community.
- Working with community partners and health care providers to encourage and empower the Thumb of Michigan to take a more active role in understanding, achieving, and maintaining a state of overall health and well being.
- Working to increase awareness of collaborative and integrative medicine and its value to the health of the Thumb; as well as working to increase awareness of and access to the programs and services we offer.
Meet the Team
Aaron Bardwell N.D., D.C, MSOM
I grew up on a small farm in the Thumb of Michigan where I attended Cass City schools. During that time, I spent countless hours shadowing doctors of all fields and witnessed the shortcomings of the current medical system where patients are seen for 10-15 minutes, given a prescription, and sent on their way. My passion for the area and its people and to reform healthcare drove me to pursue a career in the alternative medicine field. I received my bachelor’s degree from Northern Michigan University and was accepted into National University of Health Sciences. There, I earned two doctorates and a masters: Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine and a Masters in Oriental Medicine. During my seven years of medical training, I completed coursework in basic and specialized sciences, therapeutic modalities, botanical medicine, clinical nutrition, homeopathy, hydrotherapy, minor surgery, pharmacology, acupuncture, Oriental medicine, and physical medicine.
My dream is to create a multi-disciplinary collaborative integrative medical center that functions as a “One stop shop” and reform the current medical practices in the Caro area.
Brian Emrys D.C., LAc
After years of education, service and adventure, Dr. Brian has found his niche treating families with functional neurology, chiropractic care, and acupuncture. He enjoys seeing families grow stronger together, people getting well, watching chronic aches and pains subside, and guiding families to achieve the best health possible, together.
Dr. Brian Emrys is a family man with a passion for helping others. He first followed his desire to help others by joining the U.S. Army and serving his country. Now a veteran, Dr. Brian continued to pursue his passion within the healthcare system. A Long Island, NY native Dr. Emrys moved cross country to Michigan. He holds a BS in Sports Science as well as BS in Health Sciences from American Military University.
Dr. Brian then went on to continue his education by obtaining his Doctorate in Chiropractic Medicine as well as a Masters in Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine with National University of Health Sciences (Lombard, IL). He continues to enjoy expanding his medical knowledge by receiving training and certification in many different areas, to include a specialty of functional neurology. He is fully invested in comprehensive care and meeting the complex needs of his patients. Dr. Emrys works diligently with every family he treats to ensure their health goals are achieved. He specializes in pediatrics, as well as veterans, with a focus on neuro divergent and neuro developmental disorders, to include ADD/HD, Sensory Processing Disorders, Learning Disorders, Autism Spectrum, Traumatic Brain Injuries, Chronic Stress, and Stroke.
In his personal life, Dr. Emrys is always looking for opportunities to learn new things with a special interest in martial arts, camping, kayaking, soap making, and service dog training just to name a few! He loves spending time with his wife Ashley, daughter Aubrey, and son Dresden, Training & teaching martial arts, enjoying the outdoors and its many adventures.
Tom Plamondon PA-C
I was born and raised in Flint MI but was transplanted to KY in my later teen years. I attended the University of Kentucky graduating with a Bachelors of Health Science degree in Physical Therapy. I worked as a P.T. for 13 years gaining experience in orthopedics, cardiac rehab, wound care and home health. I entered Central Michigan University graduating with a Masters of Health Science as a Physician Assistant in 2006. I practiced at Hills and Dales Hospital in Cass City serving in the urgent care, family practice, and orthopedic clinics. In 2010, I started a home based primary care practice in the Thumb. The service grew successfully for a decade eventually serving in 16 counties with multiple providers caring for over 1000 home bound patients. I am returning to office based care to use my medical skills and knowledge to be of maximum use and help to others.
I have been married to my wife Kathy since 1997 raising 5 boys who are all very grown up now. Everyone of them is taller than me.
I enjoy playing and coaching ultimate frisbee; watching the boys wrestle; hunting deer and generally being outdoors. And I have a loyal dog named Enzo.
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