What is a Wellness Center?

We at Premiere define medical wellness clinics as a destination for you, a traveling patient, to gain powerful new insight into your particular disease or illness and how to best manage it.

In our view, having a pile of paperwork handed to you in an office after a hasty visit is not an effective way for you to learn about your illnesses and their management. We are developing offerings where in addition to your procedure, you receive an intense several week set of sessions that incorporate daily lessons, time to reflect, time to learn and time to renew who you are and how to best approach your illnesses.

What would daily lessons, nutritional tips, exercise instructions, yoga, meditation give you? In our belief, the best chances at a holistic and healthy life. Will you leave the experience illness free? Not likely, but you will be more empowered, more fulfilled and more likely to make the most effective changes in your life for the better.

In our view, the wellness clinic is an avenue to a new life and a rebirth or redefinition of who you are. Better nutrition, better exercise habits and healthier mindsets can change your physiology and potentially reduce the number of medications you need to take. Reducing medications, can reduce costs and medications related complications. This alone is a leading cause of preventable deaths in hospitals. Pills are easier solutions to write out when time is compressed so much in the office setting. It would seem to us at Premiere Medical that the investment in your health will pay for itself very quickly from a financial, health and well being perspective.


Be Well, Travel Safe


Jim McCormick MD
Premiere Medical Travel Company
818.917.6189

What is Medical Travel and Tourism?

There are several running definitions.

We, at Premiere, consider the emphasis of the trip to be the important determinant. For those who travel specifically to receive medical care then we feel that medical travel is more appropriate. This does not make other definitions wrong, it is how we choose to characterize the process.

There are those who travel for business reasons and become ill or injured. They are not medical tourists or travelers.
Similarly those who travel for tourism and become ill or injured are not medical tourists or travelers.

Those whose emphasis for the trip is to seek medical care as a by-product of a tourism related trip would be characterized as a medical tourist. The medical care is an incidental to a vacation trip.

Jim McCormick MD
President and Founder
Premiere Medical Travel Company
818.917.6189

What can Medical Wellness offer our clients?

A growing movement to encourage wellness AND medical travel is important to build client traffic. Medical wellness may mean different things. I was able to recently engage in a conversation with well placed individuals on this subject. 

Here is what we discovered. Clients devote time in a more introspective and exotic location to learn about themselves and their medical conditions. Trained professional dietary consultants, physical trainers, medical specialists, cooking teachers and the host facilities would help the clients learn about the management of the illnesses.

How to manage diet, habits, physical activity and weight all prevent future medical complications. Not just booklets, but committed everyday learning and activity. Teaching these concepts in a more self-intensive location, allows more time to focus and learn. 

This pattern strengthens the teachings by incorporating these new habits into daily routines. Teams can develop to support each other at the destination. There is time to fully embrace and live this new life, free from the distractions of modern life.

In building this state of mind, strength of mind and habit changing activity, clients have a better chance of returning as a stronger person with new habits and learnings to successfully maintain their new found lives.

We want to develop groups of similar people who will travel, live, learn and return together. This team building approach also builds a better support network for when they return and challenges appear.

Best of health!

Jim McCormick MD

Premiere Medical Travel