Women in Business - Restore Health & Wellness

Alison Thornhill & Jessica Bosch

Restore Health & Wellness

Alison Thornhill and Jessica Bosch, both nurse practitioners, launched Restore Health & Wellness to help individuals achieve their health and weight-loss goals. The company’s approach to weight loss and overall wellness is based on medical research and personal experience. Since August 2022, they have served over 600 patients.

“I’ve been a nurse for 20 years now, and I’ve been a nurse practitioner for half of that,” Bosch said. “I’ve always exercised, but I’ve always struggled with my weight. In Oct. 2021, I started medication in addition to my exercise and diet and lost over 60 pounds.”

Restore Health & Wellness supports their patients’ weight-loss journey through a comprehensive approach. Weight loss is sometimes the overall goal, but often the goal is just to be healthier. Using data from lab work, the team looks at the whole patient to see what else could be affecting their health and preventing weight loss.

“People think being overweight or obese is always due to overeating, but it’s often much deeper than that. Especially in women, hormones, thyroid and childbirth all play enormous roles in the ability to lose weight,” Thornhill said. “I was a ballet dancer for 16 years. Then I was in the military for 24 years. So, weight has always been something I’ve had to be aware of. We literally sat down one day and said, ‘Do you want to start a weight-loss clinic,’ and it grew from there.”

Restore Health & Wellness is unique in that it is a telehealthbased practice. Both Thornill and Bosch said issues of weight, food and lifestyle are very personal, sensitive topics.

“We know how busy our patients are. I’m a single mom of a teenager. I would never be able to take off work to go see a doctor for weight loss,” Thornhill said. “Weight is also a very sensitive topic for a lot of people with often a lot of emotions involved. With telemedicine, it’s in the privacy of their own home.”

Patients can schedule appointments, submit consent forms, and have their appointments all through a secure HIPAAcompliant web portal. The duo emphasizes the importance of making sustainable lifestyle changes and developing healthy habits that can be maintained over the long term.

“We provide resources to help our patients make better food choices and increase their activity and exercise. We coach people. We have them give us food diaries and activity diaries. We try to treat the patient comprehensively,” Bosch said.

Patients use an app to guide their journey. “It’s something patients can do on their own time versus having to sit with a dietitian. It teaches about healthy foods, the importance of exercise, and hopefully encourages them to make positive behavior changes for long-term success,” Thornhill said.

Restore Health & Wellness primary goal is helping people improve their overall health and well-being.

“We’re able to help people feel better, lose weight, get healthy, get off medications,” Bosch said. “I’ve been a nurse for a long time, and this is one of the more rewarding things I’ve ever done in medicine because I’ve been there, and I get it.”

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