Rardin Health is pleased to be a partner in helping you live a healthy and happy life.  In an effort to provide outstanding care to our patients we have combined the study, practice and promotion of three distinct, but we believe complementary, movements in health care:  family medicine, integrative medicine, and concierge medicine.

Family medicine is a medical specialty that provides primary care to people of all ages from newborns to the elderly. After medical school, Dr. Rardin completed a three year Residency program where he received advanced training in pediatrics, minor surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics, orthopedics, geriatrics, psychiatry, and preventive medicine. To become board-certified by the American Board of Family Medicine, he had to pass a rigorous examination.  Dr. Rardin also met the medical licensing standards for the state of  Illinois.  Should you need the services of another specialist Dr. Rardin will coordinate your care to insure that your total health is promoted.

"Integrative medicine is the term being used for a new movement that is being driven by the desires of consumers but that is now getting the attention of many academic health centers. Importantly, integrative medicine is not synonymous with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). It has a far larger meaning and mission in that it calls for restoration of the focus of medicine on health and healing and emphasizes the centrality of the patient-physician relationship. In addition to providing the best conventional care, integrative medicine focuses on preventive maintenance of health by paying attention to all relative components of lifestyle, including diet, exercise, stress management, and emotional well-being. It insists on patients being active participants in their health care as well as on physicians viewing patients as whole persons—minds, community members, and spiritual beings, as well as physical bodies. Finally, it asks physicians to serve as guides, role models, and mentors, as well as dispensers of therapeutic aids." (Snyderman, Weil 2002)