CHICAGO (PRWEB)
April 20, 2020

“AmSpa is so excited to announce that we’ve brought the education found in our incredible live Medical Spa & Aesthetic Boot Camp events online and on-demand. During this time in quarantine, it is important to sharpen your business acumen and increase your business’s ability to thrive once the economy is back up and running. That is why the AmSpa Virtual Boot Camp was created,” says Cathy Christensen, COO, AmSpa.

“Although those who have been to a live Boot Camp know that what makes those great is the interaction with speakers and vendors, the networking, demo, roundtable and Q&A opportunities, the virtual boot camp brings the education and speakers—the stars of the live Boot Camps—to the comfort of your home.”

The Virtual Boot Camp includes 11 sessions totaling 12 hours of education, many of which are adapted from presentations that have been given at AmSpa’s live, in-person Medical Spa & Aesthetic Boot Camps. These include:

• 
  Introduction: 8 Tips to Running a Successful Med Spa, presented by Alex Thiersch (AmSpa)—AmSpa’s founder and CEO welcomes virtual attendees and provides some pointers that could help your medical spa become a success story.
• The Plan, presented by Bryan Durocher (Durocher Enterprises)—What are the most effective ways to develop a business plan for your medical spa? Medical spa consultant Bryan Durocher discusses the ins and outs of the planning process and helps determine how long it realistically takes to open a practice.
• Financial Statements and Building a Budget, presented by Ben Hernandez (Skytale Group)—At the end of the day, the money you’re bringing in is the most important measure of your practice’s success. This presentation will, among other things, demonstrate how to properly develop a budget and use metrics to determine your med spa’s strengths and weaknesses.
• Understanding Your Financials: Start-up and Beyond, presented by Robbi Grayson (Terri Ross Consulting)—In this presentation, industry veteran Robbi Grayson helps you go through the process of determining your startup investment costs and developing a plan for financial success.
• Med Spa Rules and Regulations, presented by Bradford Adatto, JD, Jay Reyero, JD (ByrdAdatto), and Jeffrey S. Segal, MD, JD (Medical Justice/eMerit)—In this presentation, attorneys discuss the long-standing and emerging legal issues that every medical spa owner needs to know about. As you can imagine, there is a lot to cover here, since new concerns seem to be emerging daily.
• Lessons Learned: Best Practice Secrets and COVID-19, presented by Louis Frisina—Every medical spa is different, but the successful ones share several common traits. In this session, business strategy consultant and industry pioneer, Louis Frisina discusses the qualities that are typically found in practices that bring in a significant amount of revenue. He also covers business best practices during the COVID-19 crisis.
• Understanding the Profitability of Medical Aesthetic Treatments, presented by Terri Ross (Terri Ross Consulting)—Learn about the most profitable and popular treatments available to your practice, and find out how to best determine which treatments are right for you based on the state of your practice.
• The Long-term Revenue, presented by Brandon Robinson (Skin Body Soul)—Simply being successful isn’t enough for a medical aesthetic practice; you have to know how to maintain and grow your success. In this session, Brandon will show you how to build patient loyalty and move your business forward.
• Consultations That Convert, presented by Terri Ross (Terri Ross Consulting)—In order to succeed, your medical spa needs to get people in the door. In this presentation, industry expert Terri Ross reveals how your consultations should be conducted in order to effectively convert the curious into customers.
• The Marketing and Social Media Plan, presented by Jenny and Brandon Robinson (Skin Body Soul)—This session will help you determine how to most effectively market your medical aesthetic practice using both traditional methods and cutting-edge techniques.
• The Team, presented by Bryan Durocher (Durocher Enterprises)—A medical spa is only as good as its personnel, so it’s important to make sure that you hire a staff that can do everything you want it to—and more. In this session, you’ll learn about recruiting, hiring and retaining employees who can make your medical spa dreams come true.

Visit http://www.AmericanMedSpa.org/page/VirtualBootCamp for more details. AmSpa Plus Members receive a significant discount, and AmSpa Basic Members also reduced pricing.

About the American Med Spa Association (AmSpa)

The American Med Spa Association (AmSpa) provides business and legal resources to medical spas and aesthetic practices across the country. AmSpa’s events—including Medical Spa & Aesthetic Boot Camps and The Medical Spa Show—provide business and legal best-practices to anyone entering the medical spa space or looking to improve their existing practice. AmSpa members receive access to legal summaries of laws governing medical spas in their state, discounts, a robust and growing webinar library, and many other benefits. For more information visit http://www.americanmedspa.org, call 312-981-0993, or email info@americanmedspa.org

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NEW YORK (PRWEB)
April 20, 2020

Affirmed Home Care confirmed today that it has moved into a larger headquarters and expanded staffing to meet the significant demand generated by COVID-19 positive patients requiring in-home care services. Affirmed officials also emphasized the importance of proper health care protective measures adopted by staff in order to assure the protection of both caregivers and patients. “Affirmed was one of the first agencies to provide its care givers full face shields to provide an extra layer of protection to help flatten the curve” said Caryl Petersohn, RN, one of the company co-founders. “We certainly intend to do everything possible in order to maintain the highest precautionary procedures possible in order to assure the safety of our patients, our staff, and everyone’s families,” she added.

Licensed Home Care Services Agencies such as Affirmed provide home care services ranging from activities of daily living (ADLs) to postoperative, palliative and hospice care. Regulated and monitored by the Department of Health (DOH), all of Affirmed’s care givers are trained RNs, LPNs and HHAs that have been fully vetted following strict DOH guidelines.

Affirmed Home Care also announced that as part of its rapid expansion to meet the demand for patients across the spectrum, it has moved offices and expanded its staff. “Demand for high-quality home care services has been very strong and we are pleased to announce our new 3000 square foot offices at 70 West 36th Street,” said Barbara Katz, co-founder of Affirmed. Katz also announced a campaign to help regional hospitals struggling with bed availability by raising awareness of Affirmed’s capabilities. In a recent email, she stated, “We wanted to let you know we are able to bring care direct to covid-positive patients’ homes and we are offering hospitals discounted rates at this time.” The company continues to hire trained and licensed caregivers who meet or exceed a rigorous set of professional standards in order to meet this high demand.

About Affirmed Home Care

Affirmed Home Care is a private in-home health care service founded in 2019 by Caryl Petersohn, RN, and Barbara Katz serving the greater New York City region. Their mission is to support the health and well-being of clients by delivering the finest personalized in-home care, specific to their needs, wants and preferences. They achieve this goal by providing exceptional client centered care with a quality, hand-selected team of professional caregivers. For more information, visit http://www.affirmedhomecare.com.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (PRWEB)
April 20, 2020

Seeing the rapidly changing landscape of the pharmacy industry, where large chains had an increasing advantage, ERxDirect™ had the foresight to partner with EPIC Pharmacies to empower community pharmacies to continue to provide the personal attention their customers expect while leveraging tools and technology to evolve and compete in the current marketplace. It’s a partnership that quickly became a vital resource for survival amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the new demands of the consumer and health care environments created by this public health crisis.

After signing a 4-year partnership last year, ERxDirect has integrated its pharmacy technology platform aimed at enabling growth and improving service and performance into EPIC Pharmacies’ network of more than 1,500 community pharmacies, making it the first fully virtually-enabled independent pharmacy group in the U.S.

“The market has now forced immediate transformation, and there is no doubt that the virtual pharmacy space will be flooded with those trying to capitalize on this volatile situation,” said Brian Slusser of ERxDirect. “However, the well-planned strategy developed through this partnership, paired with the innovations offered from ERxDirect and EPIC Pharmacies is what will truly help pharmacies weather this storm and continue to thrive in the future.”

ERxDirect’s health services platform provides price transparency while enhancing care and customer convenience. By partnering with EPIC Pharmacies, together they are growing the expansive network of connected, secure and integrated services nationwide.

“This partnership is helping pharmacies find growth solutions outside traditional models,” said EPIC Pharmacies CEO Jay Romero, RPh. “The future of pharmacy needs innovative solutions, and this partnership is a stepping stone for a stronger future for community pharmacies.”

In collaboration with EPIC, ERxDirect’s high-speed pharmacy network provides comprehensive, flexible solutions for pharmacies that are designed to integrate into existing workflows for maximum efficiency. Comprehensive services include claims processing and editing, real-time insurance verification, e-prescribing, medical and vaccination claims billing and other services. Innovative solutions such as targeted messaging and electronic co-pay programs are available as well as web-based tools that provide transparency into claim information for analysis and reporting.

About EPIC Pharmacies Inc.:

Formed in 1982 and headquartered in Maryland, EPIC Pharmacies Inc. is a true co-op of community pharmacies dedicated to personal, quality service at competitive prices. By providing its members with group buying power, provider networks and managed care solutions essential to delivering quality patient care, EPIC Pharmacies Inc. is committed to helping independent pharmacies thrive in today’s chain-saturated marketplace.

About ErxDirect:

ERxDirect combines community pharmacy digitization with an aggregation business model,

allowing individual pharmacies to enjoy the scale and high-performance community service of larger chains and emerging networks. Its innovation platform and suite of services enable omni-channel, national distribution for community pharmacies across the country.

About Health in Motion Network:

The Health In Motion Network™ is a transformational model of care delivery that focuses on

wellness through innovation and improving health management through personalized care. Health In Motion Network provides healthcare solutions for employers and business opportunities for providers that are part of the network.

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WIN for HIM

By adding Dadi’s advanced sperm testing kit and storage capabilities to our clinical and behavioral care, it allows us to address the much under-served needs of men challenged with male-factor infertility,” – Peter Nieves, Chief Commercial Officer with WINFertility

GREENWICH, Conn. (PRWEB)
April 20, 2020

WINFertility (WIN), the nation’s leading fertility benefits management company that provides access for millions of families to the best reproductive endocrinologists, fertility technology and clinical and emotional support, and Dadi, a cutting-edge male fertility company, making male fertility testing more affordable and easily accessible, today announced a comprehensive male-factor infertility health benefits solution for employees and consumers. The collaboration, announced during National Infertility Awareness Week, will enable men and couples to take control of their reproductive health by helping identify male factor infertility issues caused by age, disease and lifestyle, early on and addressing any fertility challenges in a safe and supportive environment. The WINFertility and Dadi initiative is a key component of WIN for HIM, a fertility advocacy program for men who want to be proactive about their fertility or are about to start their family-building journey. The WIN for HIM program will be available to employers as well as consumers in May of 2020.

Historically, infertility has been widely viewed as a female-only issue, but since up to 50 percent of infertility cases are attributed to men, it’s important men test their reproductive health. If a male factor defect is detected early, men and couples can be directed to the right treatment plan, thus saving time, money, and unnecessary procedures. Because society has largely ignored male factor infertility, most men have been apprehensive to test their sperm or talk about the fertility issues they may be facing. Together, WIN and Dadi have created a solution that makes it easy for men to get the right testing, information and support.

The WIN for HIM program includes:

●        Convenient at-home sperm collection kit – Men collect their sperm sample in the privacy and comfort of their own home using Dadi’s FDA-licensed at-home sperm collection kit that is tamper proof and delivered and returned using express overnight shipping.

●        State-of-the-art sperm storage solution – Sperm deposits are cryopreserved at Dadi’s cryogenic laboratory in a liquid nitrogen tank at -321°F, a temperature which suspends all metabolic processes. Storage is complimentary for one year.

●        Comprehensive reporting – Dadi measures sperm count, motility and morphology, the key parameters used to identify male-factor infertility that’s typically caused by age, disease or lifestyle factors. All reports are analyzed by certified lab technicians and delivered within 24-hours of receipt.

●        Virtual clinical guidance – 24/7 access to a WIN Nurse Care Manager who specializes in fertility advocacy and education to discuss causes of male infertility, screening options, and interpret test results. Where appropriate, the WIN Nurse Care Manager can facilitate access to top in-network reproductive endocrinologists, fertility pharmacies, and clinical protocols.

●        Virtual emotional support – Access to WIN’s reproductive emotional health specialists who will address the emotional challenges associated with infertility such as managing stress and marriage and relationship issues that may arise.

●        Education content – WIN’s vast educational content on male-factor infertility through the WINFertility website and app.

“For more than 20 years, WINFertility has built a reputation of putting family first,” says Peter Nieves, Chief Commercial Officer with WINFertility. “Dadi shares our values and is committed to creating the best possible experience for fertility patients. By adding Dadi’s advanced sperm testing kit and storage capabilities to our clinical and behavioral care, it allows us to address the much under-served needs of men challenged with male-factor infertility.”

“Male infertility is systemic and has been traditionally ignored by reproductive health services and employer benefits packages,” said Tom Smith, Dadi Co-founder, and CEO. “The collaboration with WIN enables us to extend Dadi’s mission to normalize the conversation around male factor infertility. With WIN’s 20+ years as the leader in the managed fertility benefits industry, experience supporting millions of families across various industries, and commitment to high-quality care and support, Dadi will better service men who want to take control of their fertility.”

Employers interested in including WIN for HIM in their corporate benefit offering can visit http://www.winfertility.com for more information. Consumers can also take advantage of the full WIN for HIM program directly through the WINFertility website and app.

About WINFertility

WINFertility is the nation’s leading family-building and fertility benefit management company, providing comprehensive solutions for employers, health plans and consumers. From fertility management, including medical treatment, pharmacy and genetics to surrogacy and adoption, WINFertility has helped more than 100,000 families by providing access to the best doctors, technology, and support. WIN works with the nation’s leading reproductive endocrinologists and integrates with national and regional insurance carriers, as well as the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers, to deliver the most advanced and effective fertility treatments and family-building solutions. WIN Nurse Care Managers navigate patients through the often complex process, providing clinical oversight, emotional support, advocacy, and education throughout the journey. Patients and clients that utilize WIN’s program see higher pregnancy rates, fewer multiple gestations, more efficient Rx utilization, and lower costs. The company headquarters are based in Greenwich, CT.

About Dadi

Dadi is the leading male fertility company that makes male fertility testing and storage more affordable and accessible. Dadi has created a simple, safe, and easy way for men and couples to make well-informed fertility preservation and family-building decisions as well as identify potential male factor infertility issues. Male factor infertility has been traditionally ignored and represents a systemic problem across industry-standard reproductive health services. Dadi’s at-home collection kit and cryogenic sperm storage solution is FDA-licensed across the USA in all 50 states and provides comprehensive lab testing and reporting for an overall experience that is faster, easier and less expensive than traditional sperm banks can provide. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Dadi was co-founded by Tom Smith, Gordon von Steiner, and Mackey Saturday. Since its launch in January 2019, Dadi has serviced customers in over 1,100 cities nationwide. For more information, visit http://www.dadikit.com.

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