Yoo Direct Health Continues to Grow With New Location and Expanded Services
Writer / Renee Larr
Photographer / Amy Payne
Yoo Direct Health (YDH) has been at the forefront of integrative health care since its opening in Noblesville in 2018. In that time, Lexi Yoo, a double board-certified nurse practitioner, and her staff have seen a tremendous boom in clients. YDH quickly outgrew its office in Noblesville and needed a much larger facility to meet demand. Yoo decided the best course of action was to construct a new building, customized directly for her needs.
The practice recently moved to a new facility at 9535 East 151st Street in Noblesville. YDH is currently utilizing 9,700 square feet of the 24,000-square-foot building. Yoo plans to lease the other portion of the building to tenants.
The practice offers customized patient care in the areas of wellness, functional, anti-aging and aesthetic medicine. Yoo says the new facility will allow the practice to continue to build on its already-thriving areas of focus, such as medical weight management, peptide therapy, gut health, hormone optimization, thyroid and adrenal function, and aesthetics. Aesthetic offerings include injectables, laser treatments, hair restoration, microneedling and HydraFacials.
“We now have a whole aesthetics wing in the new space,” Yoo says. “We will have two rooms utilized solely for injectables, one for myself and one for our other aesthetics provider. We will have a separate room used specifically for HydraFacials. Then we will have another sort of catch-all room.”
Each provider at YDH will have two rooms, one for consults and one for procedures. Yoo says current patients love the new space and what it has to offer. She says the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive since moving in January.
“We have grown organically, meaning strictly by our patients’ word of mouth,” Yoo says. “I think the patients that have been with us a long time are thrilled to see how far we’ve come since 2018. Also, I think they appreciate how much we’re investing into the business for our patients.”
Yoo hired additional staff to fulfill the new patient demand. YDH currently employs several nurse practitioners and registered nurses providing patient care, along with a practice manager and a general manager.
“Our practice manager, Stacy Rawlings, assists with our day-to-day operations,” Yoo says. “She ensures our office staff is adequately prepared for the day at our Noblesville location. Our general manager, Lauren Slevin, helps with more upcoming, bigger-picture projects.”
Some of those bigger-picture projects include consulting services, speaking engagements, a health informatics project using new technology and a training academy. Yoo says one of the goals with the new building is to provide training to other providers on peptide therapy, thyroid health, women’s health, gut health, men’s health, aesthetics, ozone therapy and regenerative medicine.
The new space also allows YDH to increase the services they offer. New services include intravenous therapy, ozone therapy and regenerative medicine. Yoo says she is adding regenerative medicine to what YDH currently offers because it fits their goals. She says the practice focuses on healing the body from the inside out, specifically regenerating tissues in the most natural ways possible.
She says this segues well into intravenous therapy because it reduces oxidative stress in the body, which ages people quicker and causes DNA damage, leading to other chronic diseases. She says ozone therapy helps to reduce inflammation and aging in the body.
“Inflammation is triggered by underlying chronic disease,” Yoo says. “Ozone therapy also helps accelerate wound healing and clearing out chronic infections. But the most specific benefit of ozone therapy is that it helps boost the immune system. It’s also part of an anti-aging protocol that we are working on.”
Yoo says while what she offers is not necessarily considered mainstream, there is a mountain of fact-based evidence to support it.
“I always want to be able to show patients there is evidence to support what we’re doing here,” Yoo says. “I want to do some of my own studies tracking our patients here to determine our best practices.”
Dr. Steven Porto, a double board-certified surgeon, serves as collaborating physician for YDH. Yoo meets with Porto monthly to review clinical cases. The collaborative partnership ensures any concerns or needs by YDH are addressed.
Yoo says the most significant differentiating factor between YDH and other integrated practices is its commitment to putting the patient first. She says the staff must always be learning to provide the best patient outcomes.
“We’re always changing and learning because medicine is always changing,” Yoo says. “We always want to be at the forefront of medicine. I always want to be expanding on our knowledge and 10 steps ahead of what we’re currently doing.”
YDH currently has a waitlist, but Yoo says with the opening of the new building and hiring of additional staff, she is confident they can knock out the waitlist promptly. She says patients may be seen a little sooner if they’re willing to drive to the Greenwood location at 107 North State Road 135, Suite 106.
“We have noticed patients get a little scared by the waitlist or just can’t wait, which we understand, but we’re seeing them not getting the results they want or not having a great experience for what they’re paying,” Yoo says. “A lot of times they call us back to get back on the waitlist.”
Yoo says the future may include an additional location in the northwest region of the greater Indianapolis area. She reminds everyone to stay tuned for what’s to come in the future, and potential published research completed by Yoo. If you’re looking for a better “Yoo” inside or out, call 317-523-9160 or visit yoodirecthealth.com.
