Who Are We?
We are a team of medical and allied health practitioners aiming to bring the best and most comprehensive medical care to our patients and their family. We will treat you as we would like to be treated as patients, to be sensitive to your needs, and to be competent and at the forefront of medical knowledge and skills so as to bring out the best of your health. We believe and practice a holistic approach to your care.
We strive to provide as many health services as possible under one roof to provide convenience and simplicity to our patients. Hawthorn East Medical Clinic offers GP, specialists and allied health consultations. There is also a pathology collection centre in house. Your every need is taken care of.
Allied Health Providers Available at HEMAC
Our primary goal is to provide personalised and effective health care to our patients; whether you are seeing one of our doctors or allied health professionals – these services are available to all. You don’t need to be a patient of one of our doctors to access these services.
We are available to provide specialised services for corporate and businesses, both onsite or at your business.
HEMAC provides a range of services under one roof so our patients do not need to travel further to access quality healthcare.
Melbourne Pathology
Overview
Melbourne Pathology is the premier provider of pathology services in Victoria. We are a first class practice built on the dedication and expertise of our staff, and on customer satisfaction.
Melbourne Pathology is an industry leader. We are the oldest established private pathology practice in Australia. Since 1927 we have been committed to diagnostic excellence and independence. Today we form part of Sonic Healthcare, an Australian owned company that is one of the world’s largest diagnostic medical companies
We provide a renowned and comprehensive service to more than two million patients each year. Our services reach more than 5,000 private and public hospital beds, specialists and general practitioners throughout Melbourne and various corporate, industrial and institutional clients.
Pathologists
Our highly experienced pathologists are leaders in their field with specialist knowledge and expertise. They provide current, informed and practical advice to assist with interpretation of results. Our pathologists are members of hospital boards and health policy committees. They also publish in major journals and address international conferences.
Laboratories
Melbourne Pathology has state-of-the-art 24-hour laboratories in Collingwood, Richmond, Box Hill and Mulgrave, with additional laboratories in Frankston, Heidelberg, Mornington, Bendigo and Ballarat. These laboratories support over 220 collection centres throughout Melbourne and Central Victoria.
For more info please visit http://www.mps.com.au/
Dietitian
About
Yvonne our Dietitian graduated from Monash University. She incorporates the Non-Diet Approach and target medical nutrition therapies to help you achieve your optimum health. Yvonne wants to empower you through food. Using food as medicine in an easy and enjoyable way to help gain control of your health back as well as to enjoy and connect with food beyond its nutrient constitutes.
Yvonne is also trained in French Patisserie from Le Cordon Bleu Paris. She enjoys educating people through hands on activities and has extensive experience in consulting to food industries and running cooking and baking demonstrations across different setting including, markets, CALD women’s clubs, government and non for profit organisations as well as restaurant and café businesses.
Yvonne also has a strong interest in integrative health as well as Traditional Chinese Medicine. She is intrigued by way different foods, herbs and spices are incorporated into Asian diets to prevent illness and promote health.
Finding joy in sharing a meal, a baked good or two and seeing the world.
In her spare time, you will find Yvonne travelling and immersing herself in new cultures, empowering people through food, creating delicious and nourishing recipes, photographing, and creating workshops.
Yvonne’s Nutrition Philosophy
- Be empowered by food, not just using food as a fuel, but the embrace the social and cultural aspects in order to have a sustainable and healthy vibrant lifestyle.
- Healthy eating doesn’t have to boring and delicious foods doesn’t have to be hard. The key is simplicity
- Nourishment, not deprivation. If you want ice cream, eat real ice-cream, if you want a cake; eat a real cake made with simple ingredients, not one from a package with 20 different ingredients
- The recipe to good health is learning to prepare, love and enjoy a variety of wholesome, REAL food that will love your health back.
- Be adventurous to try new foods. Variety is the spice of life.
Should you see a Dietitian?
- Are you tired of yo-yo dieting and want to learn the proven lifestyle habits for permanent weight loss?
- Trying to juggle a hectic work life balance and don’t have the energy to do anything else?
- Are you confused, overwhelmed and frustrated by all the fad diets and nutrition hype in the media?
- Do you want to enjoy delicious food whilst still staying healthy?
- Do you need to take medication for high cholesterol or blood pressure?
- Do you regularly experience symptoms of irritable bowel, such as constipation or bloating?
- Are you living with the discomfort of indigestion and reflux?
- Do you feel tired all the time, even when you wake up in the morning?
- Are your stressed and always getting sick?
- Are you finding you are gaining more weight around your waist even though you are exercising and eating the same amount?
If you answered yes to any of these questions a dietitian can help you. Yvonne can show you savvy and out of the box ways to plan a healthy menu for yourself or your entire family while addressing your individual concerns. She can also teach you simple tricks to makeover your pantry and save time and money!
How a Dietitian can help
Yvonne can help you make long-term changes, not just provide you with quick fixes. Working with Yvonne can help you create habits that can be maintained. You will learn lifetime lessons on how to eat well to achieve results for life. After all you are what you eat.
Working with Yvonne can help you
- Better manage a medical conditions such as diabetes, arthritis often with less or no medications
- Help reverse risk factors for chronic diseases such as high cholesterol
- Fine tune your food choices, learn how to eat properly at home, work and on the go
- Learn to use food a medicine, get to know a range of different foods rich in medicinal properties that can be incorporated into your diet.
- Lose weight and keep it off for long term
- Learn to love and enjoy food again
- Eat to maximize energy levels
- Understand and interpret nutrition labels
- Overcome hurdles and barriers that are preventing your form achieving your wellness goals
Personally tailored advice: The last thing you will get when you see a dietitian is a cookie cutter approach. We are uniquely different down to our DNA, so there is no one size fits all.
What to expect at your first appointment
Your initial session usually lasts about 45mins to an hour. At this visit it is all about getting to know and understand you as a unique individual so that personalised advice can be provided.
During this session, Yvonne will get to know your health, health history, favourite foods and eating and lifestyle habits. Most importantly she will get to know your current health and wellbeing goals. At the end of this session, you will have walk away with an action plan and easy to follow strategies so you can immediately start working towards your healthy, nutrition and wellness goals.
Follow up appointments will focus on overcoming hurdles, refining, maintenance and monitoring your progress.
After your initial visit we will make a plan for revisits, depending on your needs.
Follow up session are 30 minutes.
Before your first appointment, we ask that you download and complete the 7-day food diary, and complete at least 3 days prior to your consultation and bring it a long with any other test results.
Conditions we treat
Yvonne can help you with smarter eating and teach you how to use food as medicine to achieve your wellness goals. She can work with your for the conditions below including but not limited to:
- Allergy
- Anti-inflammatory
- Adrenal fatigue
- Bloating
- Constipations
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Dairy Allergy or intolerances
- Diabetes
- Fatty liver
- Low mood
- Fluid retentions
- Food allergy and intolerances
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Nutrient deficiencies
- Optimising energy
- IBS
- Low FODMAP Diet
- PCOS
- Reflux / GERD
- Auto-immune disorders including Hashimatos
- Vegan and Vegetarian diets
- Weight loss
Services
One-One Consultations
These sessions are much like a counseling and coaching. Where you will work with Yvonne to learn everything you need for your journey to wellness. You will be able to open up and share any expectations and hurdles. This will help form a mutual understanding of your needs and how the dietitian can best support you. Through these sessions you will be equipped with all the knowledge and tools that are suitable for you. In a one on one consultation you will also be able to put what you have learn into practice.
One on one consultations are ideal if you have diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, IBS, intolerances, auto-immune disorders or if you simply want to feel great.
Fee Schedules
Initial Visits: $95 for extended 1-hour appointments
Standard appointments: $75 for 45minutes
Follow up: $75.00
Medicare rebates are available onsite for EPC plans
Private Health insurance claims can be claimed with invoice provided.
Consulting & Speaking
Need some help to improve the nutritional quality of your brand or product? After some innovation and capturing ideas to better communicate your unique product or service? We can help!
Yvonne is able to provide fun and innovative nutrition consulting and presentation services to businesses, fresh food markets, communities, governments and non-profitable organisations.
Some of the projects she has been involved with include
- Presenting and advising the latest food and wellness information to fresh food markets, to promote increasing intake of local fresh and seasonal produces
- Working with chefs in formulation of new recipes that are In accordance with the Australian Healthy Eating Charter
- Preparing articles and educational materials of the latest food and wellness information for consumers in a manner that is engaging and practical
- Practical presentations through hands on cooking activities in
- Recipe development and articles for food companies
- Starring as a guest speak on a health panel for Q&A
- Designing nutrition wellness programs for corporations for use with their employees.
- Advising to councils in formulating and promoting healthy eating amongst CADL communities.
- Working with CADL groups to bridge the gap of their traditional diets with local diet and food environment to ensure optimal health.
To learn how Yvonne could add value and help you grow your business, please contact HEMAC today
Lets Go Shopping
Making smart choices at the supermarket can help you stock a healthy fridge and pantry. It is important to understand food labels to make the best choices for you and your family.
The supermarket always has a new product being added. With thousands of different packaging, all claiming different health benefits, no wonder it can get confusing, not to mention overwhelming.
We can help you take the guesswork out of shopping.
Help you to be bust health claims, only products that are good for your health and wallet. You will come away more efficient and with a fresh new perspective of shopping at the supermarket.
1 hour one –one tours : $75.00
Bring a friend $100
Groups’ tours available. Please call the clinic for more information and pricings
Pantry Makeover
Is your pantry a help to your health and wellness goals or a hindrance? Your kitchen can play a large role in your request to success. A pantry make-over can help to give you a fresh start and kick start your quest to wellness, as well as help you stay on tract with your long term health journey
Cooking demonstrations
Are you after something fun and education?
How about an 1-hour lunch and learn events for your workplace, school, and kindergarten or simply for a get together in the comfort of your own home.
All demonstrations are tailored to your dietary and learning requirements. In these interactive sessions, you will learn how to cook the foods you love to eat. The sessions will focus on creating foods that are easy, delicious and nourishing to the body. Come away with practical tips, the latest in food and wellness as well as taste the new and delicious food.
Plan-Shop-Cook
We can also combine, the pantry make over, supermarket tour as well as cooking demonstration into one package tailored towards your specific lifestyle, health conditions to achieve your wellness goals. Contact us today for more information.
Resources and Nutrition Links
Helpful Links
Please speak to our receptionist about the services you require or our specialists about what may be concerning you.
Frequently Asked Questions
You may have some queries or concerns regarding treatment for Allied Health Services.
- Dietitian
- Melbourne Pathology
If you are under an a Medicare Enhanced Primacy Care Plan and this was organised by your treating doctor – you can see HEMAC’s Allied Health Services – as long as you have your referral with you.
If you are seeing one of our specialised Allied Health Care Providers – there is a gap fee charged with the appointment.
All appointments are to be paid for in full on the day. If you have your bank account details registered with medicare, we can process your claim straightaway and you will receive your monies into your bank account between 1 to 4 business days.
If you have private health insurance, we can process your claim via HICAPS or we can print you an invoice to see reimbursement from your provider.
Please note that if you do not make contact with us a cancellation fee may be incurred.
Please refer to our fee and charges.