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EASTSIDE MEDICAL CENTER: Eastside Urgent Care

September 26, 2019 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

EASTSIDE MEDICAL CENTER: Eastside Urgent Care

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Dr. Joshua Behlmann/Eastside Urgent Care

Eastside Urgent Care is affiliated with Eastside Medical Center in Snellville, GA. For urgencies that aren’t emergencies, Eastside Urgent Care offers convenient and quality care to the Gwinnett County community at their locations in Snellville, Lawrenceville, Lilburn, Grayson, and soon to be Loganville. Eastside Urgent Care is an accredited Urgent Care Center by the Urgent Care Association of America. Eastside Urgent Care’s mission is to create an unmatched patient experience by providing superior customer service with exceptional quality. Since opening the doors of their first location in 2017, Eastside Urgent Care has had the privilege of delivering care to more than 65,000 patients across Gwinnett County.

About Eastside Medical Center

Eastside Medical Center has been a healthcare leader for more than 39 years, providing quality care to patients in Gwinnett and surrounding counties. Nationally recognized for patient safety, Eastside focuses on delivering quality care with exceptional outcomes by utilizing the most advanced technology and experienced physicians. Eastside is a 310-bed, multi-campus system of care offering comprehensive medical and surgical programs including cardiovascular, neurosciences, oncology, orthopedics, robotic surgery, rehabilitation, maternity with neonatal intensive care, behavioral health, bariatric, urgent care, and 24-hour emergency care at two locations. Their medical staff of 500 board-certified physicians, 1,200 employees and 400 volunteers is committed to providing the community a healthcare system of excellence.

Todd Latz with GoHealth Urgent Care

April 3, 2019 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Todd Latz with GoHealth Urgent Care

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Todd Latz/GoHealth Urgent Care

GoHealth Urgent Care is one of the country’s fastest-growing and largest urgent care companies. At GoHealth Urgent Care, they provide unparalleled experiences that are effortless, personal and connected through partnerships with market-leading health systems and their communities as a whole. GoHealth Urgent Care operates over 125 urgent care centers in the greater New York metropolitan area, the Portland, Oregon-Vancouver, Washington metropolitan area, the San Francisco Bay Area, Hartford and Southeastern Connecticut, Winston-Salem and Charlotte, North Carolina, St. Louis and Springfield, Missouri, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Northwest Arkansas. GoHealth Urgent Care is a d/b/a of Access Clinical Partners, LLC, a TPG Growth portfolio company. TPG Growth is the middle market and growth equity investment platform of TPG, which has more than $103 billion of assets under management.

Alii Healthcare

July 18, 2015 by angishields

Health Connect South

Alii Healthcare

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Alii Healthcare

On this week’s show we hosted experts from the telehealth platform, Alii Healthcare. Dr. Sylvan Waller, Founder/CEO of Alii Healthcare, Dr. Reginald Nesbitt, Christie Sherman, RN, and Alii client, Jennifer Smith joined us to talk about how the technology solution works. They have created a mobile app called, “Bond”, which uses a mobile device’s camera to allow a patient to engage face-to-face with an ER physician to determine best course of action with minor, but time-sensitive complaints.

Sylvan shared how today, the average wait time for patients to be seen by a doctor from time of request for appointment is as much as 18 days. We also talked about the fact that it is not uncommon for less acute complaints such as respiratory infections, minor cuts, sprains, etc, to wait in an ER for 2-4 hours (or more).

Having been an ER physician for a number of years, he saw first hand how these patients can become dissatisfied with their experience due to the fact that they’ve had to wait so long before being seen. He felt there must be a better way.

He and his partners set out to take advantage of telehealth technology to create an application that uses a mobile device’s camera to allow a patient to request to speak with a physician, and within seconds or a few minutes at most, they can “Facetime” with a qualified ER physician. Using the mobile device’s camera, the doctor can view a patient’s throat, swollen ankle, minor cut, etc. From there he/she can make recommendations for medical prescriptions or treatments, or recommend the patient is seen in an urgent care or ER.

The team brought with them, Alii Healthcare client, Jennifer Smith. She talked about her experiences using the Bond app to get diagnosis and prescriptions for minor injuries suffered while running and a respiratory infection.

Jennifer talked about how intuitive the application’s interface is and how quickly she was able to speak directly with a physician without having to leave her home.

Special guests:

Dr. Sylvan Waller, MD, CEO/Founder of Alii Healthcare

Doctor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
Residency, Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
Former Assistant Professor, Emory University School of Medicine
Previous Entrepreneur-in-Residence, ATDC

Dr. Reginald Nesbitt, MD, President, Bond House

Doctor of Medicine, University of Texas, Galvaston
Residency, ER, University of Chicago Hospitals
Board Certified, Emergency Medicine

Christie Sherman, RN, Director of Physician Engagement, Alii Healthcare

RN Diploma, George Brown College
BSN, University of Phoenix
MSN, Nursing Science, University of Phoenix
Previous VP of Client Operations, Schumacher Group

Jennifer Smith, Alii Healthcare client

Juris Doctor, Georgia State University College of Law
Previous Director of Reimbursement, Resurgens Orthopedics
Senior Associate, Ken David & Associates LLP

David Rhines with Post Retirement Living and Dr. Judith Dennis with Roswell Urgent Care Center

May 20, 2015 by Mike

Silver Lining in the Cloud

David Rhines with Post Retirement Living and Dr. Judith Dennis with Roswell Urgent Care Center

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Silver Lining in the Cloud - May 20, 2015 — David Rhines, Dr. Judith Dennis, Nikole Toptas

David Rhines/Post Retirement Living

The mission of Post Retirement Living is to save people time and money, reduce frustration, and ease the burden on families facing the broad range of elder care challenges. They provide the resources and expertise to help plan for life events that happen later on in retirement.

Dr. Judith Dennis/Roswell Urgent Care Center

Roswell Urgent Care Center is an urgent care clinic serving children, adults and seniors with common injuries and illnesses, or other medical requirements. They serve Roswell, Woodstock, East Cobb, Sandy Springs and the surrounding areas. They are committed to delivering quality patient care, convenient hours, prompt service and low costs to their patients. Their board certified physicians and mid-level providers are fully prepared to handle your Urgent and Immediate Care needs. They accept most major insurance plans and walk-ins are always welcome!

Dr. Rolf Meinhold MDVIP – Top Docs Radio

May 1, 2015 by angishields

Top Docs Radio

Dr. Rolf Meinhold MDVIP - Top Docs Radio

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Dr. Rolf Meinhold MDVIP

On this week’s show I was joined in studio by Dr. Rolf Meinhold MDVIP. We were introduced to him by Justin Knott of Intrepy, LLC, a marketing firm with numerous local physician practices they serve. He’s a family practice physician who’s been practicing in the Atlanta area for around thirty years. He recently joined MDVIP to provide primary care services in their personalized healthcare program. Through their service MDVIP and its doctors are able to include access to the physician 24/7, coupled with online resources that give patients access to their health information. MDVIP offers a membership-based plan that provides such extended access to one’s physician with same-day or next-day appointments and 30 min appointment slots, Dr. Meinhold’s patients get significant time and access to their doctor.

Meinhold Family Practice is a MDVIP-affiliated practice utilizing the MDVIP Wellness Program to prevent little things from becoming big things…enabling patients to enjoy life and stay healthy.  Patients that truly value their health will appreciate having an enhanced doctor-patient relationship. Our practice through MDVIP has dramatically decreased our practice size to closely work with you. Within our smaller practice, you will receive the comprehensive care and personalized service you deserve to keep you healthy.

Dr. Meinhold’s Approach to Your Wellness: Improving the quality of people’s lives one patient at a time, speaks to two essential elements: Quality and Personalization. Improving quality is all about wellness. The better someone is and feels the more possibilities of enjoying the richness that life has to offer. Being person-oriented means giving respect and reverence to the unique relationship that exists between a doctor and a patient. Only by optimizing trust and care can wellness be achieved.

Because of Dr. Meinhold’s specialized training, he is able to manage middle to late childhood, adolescent and adult patients. He has an ongoing interest in the primary prevention of diabetes and heart disease through nutrition and weight management. In addition, he is a strong proponent of exploring the scientific basis for the mind-body connection in medicine.

Special Guest:

Dr. Rolf Meinhold, MD, Meinhold Family Medicine/MDVIP

Doctorate of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Internship, Riverside Regional Medical Center
Board Certified, American Board of Family Medicine
Fluent in English and German

Justin Knott, Co-Founder, Intrepy, LLC

Previous VP Business Development, TAGin
Former Director, Investments, I4 Capital Partners
Previous Team Leader, B.A.S.E. Camp Children’s Cancer Foundation
BS, Finance, Investments, & Securities, University of Central Florida

Telemedicine

March 12, 2015 by angishields

Health Connect South

Telemedicine

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Telemedicine

This week I sat down with the founder of MedZed, a hybrid telemedicine platform that enables parents with sick children to receive care for their child with an in-home RN who establishes a remote link with a physician. Today, there are a growing number of urgent care centers available, along with after-hours pediatric care centers. These care centers are typically better options than being seen in an emergency room where wait times and exposure to very ill patients are a concern.

However, urgent care centers also frequently come with a long wait and exposure to numerous sick persons in the waiting room as well. Telemedicine is a health care delivery model where patients interface with a provider via phone and/or face-to-face video conferencing platform that allows patient and doctor to see each other. This week’s guests joined us to talk about how they are innovating with this technology to deliver quality health care in a patient’s home.

With the MedZed platform (and soon a mobile app) parents with sick children can request an in-home examination of their children. After a phone triage conversation, a registered nurse or nurse specialist is dispatched to the home to conduct the exam. The in-home clinician links up with the patient’s physician (when that practice is a MedZed participant) or a thoroughly-vetted, experienced pediatrician on the MedZed medical staff (when the patient’s physician office is NOT a MedZed participant).

Once in the home the nurse establishes an internet connection using either the family’s connection if available or by cellular wi-fi if in-home internet is absent or inadequate. Via the communications link, the physician is able to view the results of otoscopic exams, listen to their stethoscope, and see vitals all in real time. This portal also gives the patient and family the ability to also see what is being visualized by the exam, offering educational opportunities and a decreased measure of anxiety.

We talked about the fact that as more diagnostic equipment such as radiographic devices become more mobile, the scope of care that will be able to be delivered in the home will expand dramatically. This will serve to reduce use of ER and urgent care for more acute, complex complaints. The service is offered as fee-for-service—patients pay using credit cards when the care is delivered. In some cases third party insurors will reimburse for part or all of the visit, depending on plan.

Special Guests:

Scott Schnell, CEO, Co-founder of MedZed

BGS, Accounting & History, University of Michigan
Former CPA
Previous SVP/ CFO of Simply Floored
Previous Chairman/CEO of Pike Family Nursing

Tiffany Holland, RN at MedZed

Katarina Quinterno, Parent, MedZed client

Dr. Ron Perry with Gwinnett Urgent Care and Dr. Tara Perry with Suwanee Station Dentistry

August 22, 2014 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Dr. Ron Perry with Gwinnett Urgent Care and Dr. Tara Perry with Suwanee Station Dentistry

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Dr. Ron Perry/Gwinnett Urgent Care

Gwinnett Urgent Care is your ER alternative, run by Dr. Ronald Perry. Open Monday-Friday 8am to 8pm and 10-6 on Saturday and Sunday, they provide urgent pediatric and adult care for the Suwanee community. Gwinnett Urgent Care is proud of its modern, comfortable office in Suwanee, conveniently located on Peachtree Industrial Blvd.

Dr. Ron Perry is a board certified Emergency Room physician whose expert care is delivered with a gentle manner. The goal of Dr. Perry and his staff is to provide the most efficient, effective healthcare service for you and your loved ones. When you’re feeling ill and/or in pain, the last thing you want is to deal with uncomfortable and inferior service.

They also have a certified therapy dog (Ruckus) on site who many of our patients ask to see each time they return!

Dr. Tara Perry/Suwanee Station Dentistry

Suwanee Station Dentistry has been providing excellence in dental care to the Suwanee, Johns Creek and Duluth, GA communities for many years. Dr. Tara Perry is dedicated to patient care and comfort, and has the knowledge and experience you can trust with your family’s dental heath.

Our family-oriented office provides all aspects of general and restorative dentistry, including:

Cleanings and periodontal maintenance
Implants, crowns, and dentures
Pediatric dentistry
Cosmetic treatments including teeth bonding and teeth whitening
Sleep apnea treatment
TMJ/TMD therapy
Sedation dentistry

Judith Dennis with Roswell Urgent Care Center and Philip Kouns with The Children’s Village at Christian City

July 16, 2014 by Mike

Silver Lining in the Cloud

Judith Dennis with Roswell Urgent Care Center and Philip Kouns with The Children's Village at Christian City

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Judith Dennis, Philip Kouns, Dominick Rainey

Judith Dennis/Roswell Urgent Care Center

Roswell Urgent Care Center is an urgent care clinic serving children, adults and seniors with common injuries and illnesses, or other medical requirements. They serve Roswell, Woodstock, East Cobb, Sandy Springs and the surrounding areas. They are committed to delivering quality patient care, convenient hours, prompt service and low costs to their patients. Their board certified physicians and physician assistants are fully prepared to handle your urgent and immediate care needs. They accept most major insurance plans and walk-ins are always welcome.

Philip Kouns/The Children’s Village at Christian City

Christian City is a non-denominational, non-profit organization with a mission to minister to the spiritual, physical, social and psychological needs of families, with particular emphasis on children, the aged and infirm, by providing residential, health and social services according to the principles and teachings of the Christian faith.

For more than 49 years The Children’s Village at Christian City has provided a quality Christ-centered, family-focused, community-based program of care for the many “children of need” coming to them.

The Children’s Village affords a safe and loving haven to children from circumstances that are disturbing to desperate. The reasons they come to them are varied, but each child needs the loving care of adults they can trust, and safety from abuse. Sometimes they lack even the very basics like food and shelter.

Their ministry provides children a stable environment where they learn structure, responsibilities, and live in productive, affirming and safe homes. They seek to meet the child’s needs through four distinct programs: The Children’s Village at Christian City residential program, Project Safe Place, the Transitional Living Program, and the developing ministry to young adults with cognitive challenges and developmental disabilities.