Cady Brown and her husband Ryan, both internal medicine physicians, started this small concierge primary care office in downtown Lexington in 2018. She holds Menopause Society certification, and the practice lists menopause and hormone therapy in its women's health services alongside everyday internal medicine work like thyroid and heart risk. Membership buys an annual physical that ends in a written wellness plan, plus direct phone, text and email access to her doctor between visits. Care happens in person at the Mill Street office, and virtual visits are used mainly when a member is away from home. The practice has reached the size it wants, so new patients join a waiting list. No pharmaceutical reps are allowed in the office, and there are no nurse practitioners or physician assistants, so members see their own doctor every visit.
Bluegrass Gynecology and Wellness is a membership practice in Lexington that Dr. Elkinson built for women after fifteen years in general obstetrics and gynecology. Everyone who joins pays a membership fee, and in return gets same day or next day appointments, long visits, and the ability to call or text her and her clinical staff directly. She is a gynecologic surgeon who also handles primary care and sick visits, so a member can bring her a hormone question, a pelvic floor problem and the flu. For midlife patients she offers FDA approved hormonal medications, bioidentical supplements, non hormonal medications and what she calls alternative therapies, and she runs lab work and ultrasound in the office. She also treats urinary leaking, overactive bladder and painful sex from atrophy with in office radiofrequency devices rather than surgery. The cosmetic injectables and skin treatments on the same menu are a separate service run by a nurse injector.
