Bexar County Medical Society Distributes Millions of PPE Items to the Physician Community

Healthcare Leaders recently became aware of the extraordinary efforts of our friends at the Bexar County Medical Society (BCMS) in distributing PPE to the community over the past 18 months. After discovering a gap in demand and supply among the physician community, BCMS stepped up to distribute more than 7 million pieces of PPE, using a portion of their headquarters as a warehouse and distribution center. Melody Newsom, BCMS CEO and Executive Director, shared some of this story with us recently in the video below.

 

Video by Chris Coutinho. For information on services, contact Chris at [email protected]

A Big Thank You to AirMed for Sponsoring our Lunch & Learn

Healthcare Leaders of San Antonio would like to express our sincere appreciation to Brock Miller and AirMed for sponsoring our well attended November 9th “Lunch & Learn” at Bexar County Medical Society. AirMed is the premier air ambulance company in the United States with over 25,000 missions to their credit, and they are the only American company to  have won the International Travel Insurance Journal’s prestigious award as “Air Ambulance of the Year” for two consecutive years. To learn more about AirMed, and all the great things they do, please take a moment to watch the video below.

The event featured a wonderful presentation on leadership skills from Dr. Michael Farlow of Wolf Leadership Development, LLC.  A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a successful author, Dr. Farlow is a human behavior specialist, speaker and master coach who helps professionals become more effective leaders.  We were honored to have Dr. Farlow share with us some of his time, expertise and insights.

And, last but not certainly not least, we’re very grateful to Bexar County Medical Society for graciously hosting the event at their beautiful offices. The Bexar County Medical Society has been providing resources, support and services to both physicians and the community for more than 150 years, and recently stepped up their game to provide extensive PPE distribution during the pandemic.

Thank you all.

 

 

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Jennifer Newell & Betty’s Co. Win Grand Prize at Tech Fuel Pitch Competition

From left, Katherine Nydegger, Tech Bloc’s program manager, Deborah Carter, director of economic and community development at Bexar County, Jennifer Newell, Founder & CEO of Betty’s Co., and Dirk Elmendorf at the Tech Fuel event on October 14th, 2021.
San Antonio-based Betty’s Co. won the $50,000 grand prize in the 2021 iteration of Tech Fuel. The startup pitch competition for early stage tech ventures was hosted by Bexar County and Tech Bloc, a local tech advocacy nonprofit, at a Thursday night event at the Tobin Center downtown.

A total of $100,000 was given out with every finalist receiving a cash prize.

Betty’s Co. is an online women-focused health company that offers health and wellness counseling, resources and products, most geared to younger women. Founded in January 2020 by Jennifer Newell, the startup plans to eventually serve as a one-stop shop for women seeking health care, particularly gynecological care.

Newell is creating a mobile app, mobile clinic, as well as partnerships with universities to provide these type of resources, as previously reported by the Business Journal.

The competition initially selected 25 semifinalists to pitch to a panel of judges in one of five semi-final brackets.

Other finalists included runner-up Alt-Bionics, a biotech company developing bionic limbs for amputees. Third prize winner EmGenisys improves animal production and promotes sustainability through reproductive technologies. Other honorees included IncentiFind, which helps developers, property owners and tenants find money for their real-estate and home improvement projects; and Astroport Space Technologies Inc., which converts moon dust into bricks and material for 3D construction printing of lunar infrastructure.

Originally launched in 2016 as a $50,000 competition, TechFuel doubled the prize money in 2019 through additional funding from the county’s Innovation Fund. Each fiscal year, $1 million in economic incentive funds are allocated by the county to this fund to foster local job recruitment, talent development competitions, business expansion and technical workforce training for targeted technology-based industries.

In 2020, San Antonio-based Backcountry Mills LLC, which does business as Grain4Grain and develops grain drying technology, won the $50,000 grand prize, while the previous year, Rectify, a data protection and privacy startup launched in 2018, won the grand prize.

As reported by    of the San Antonio Business Journal

La Gente Consulting, LLC: Healthcare Vacancies in San Antonio

If you, or someone you know, are looking for a new healthcare position in San Antonio contact Chris Armijo at La Gente Consulting, LLC.

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American Doctors Address COVID-19 Misinformation with SCOTUS Press Conference

*We embedded this video from Facebook when we first posted this item on July 27th. Within 24 hours Facebook had removed access to the video for everyone saying it was not true according to their “fact-checkers”.  We had no idea the fact-checkers at Facebook had medical degrees, but thought you should be able to see it. Click here or on the screenshot above to watch the press conference in its entirety on BitChute.

As a corollary to the above story, America’s Frontline Doctors reported on the 28th that their host provider had taken down their website. It’s strange, if their treatment protocols have no merit why fear the message? Where’s the willingness to exchange ideas and debate the pros and cons of a particular treatment? Many of those opposing the use of HCQ as a treatment for COVID seem to rely on Dr. Fauci’s more recent comments, but since NIH research appears to substantiate its efficacy why should those findings be questioned at this particular point in time?

New! July 31st. Dr. Simone Gold falls victim to a further act of censorship, reporting she was fired for appearing in the America’s Frontline Doctors press conference video.

 

 

See also:

Yale Epidemiology Professor says HCQ could save lives for COVID patients.

Ohio Pharmacy Board reverses ban on HCQ

 

MR3 Health Recognized as TOP 10 Pioneer in Patient Monitoring by MD Tech Review

MD Tech Review, a curated knowledge network for physicians and health professionals, has included MR3 Health in it’s list of Top 10 Patient Monitoring pioneers of 2019. The list is included in their December 2019 issue which is devoted to the preventive health benefits and reductions in the costs of care to be realized through effective remote patient monitoring (RPM). The full article, which features an interview with MR3 president, Stan Marett, can be read here. Stan is a regular at our monthly mixers and we’re pleased to share this success with our HLSA family.

Congratulations Stan!

 

Jennifer Newell Documents Her Entrepreneurial Journey in “Building Betty’s”

HLSA member and marketing advisor Jennifer Newell is documenting her entrepreneurial journey to launch Betty’s Co., a combination of clinic and services aimed at providing a comfortable, one-stop-shop approach for young ladies as they transition from adolescence to women’s health. Jennifer has started a YouTube channel, “Building Betty’s”, to share her experiences with her company to mentor and encourage other young entrepreneurs. Watch Jennifer’s announcement below and be sure to subscribe to her channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLtVyorqVkECIHQSPjwmjYw

Save the Date! Healthcare Landscape 2020 is Friday, January 31, 2020

Healthcare Landscape 2020 will take place Friday, January 31, 2020 at the St. George Maronite Center  at 6070 Babcock Road here in San Antonio. This the South Texas Annual Joint Conference on the future of healthcare, led by the South Texas Chapter of ACHE, the South Texas Chapter of HFMA and the Greater San Antonio Healthcare Foundation. The focus for this year’s conference will be Innovating for the Futureand will feature a keynote address by Gus Cardenas, President & CEO of the Austin Healthcare Council, on  Disrupting Healthcare Through Innovation. The day-long conference will offer presentations and insights from a number of distinguished healthcare leaders from San Antonio and across Texas including Allen Harrison, President & CEO of Methodist Healthcare System, George Hernandez, President & CEO of University Health System and Ted Shaw, President & CEO of the Texas Hospital Association. Healthcare Landscape is one of San Antonio’s most significant conferences in terms of value and industry insights and is an opportunity not to be missed.  You can download the conference agenda here and register for Healthcare Landscape 2020 here.

Interested in supporting Healthcare Landscape 2020? See the suggested support levels here and contact Jim Hall, STC-ACHE Treasurer at [email protected].

 

 

Vice Admiral (Ret) Raquel Bono, MD to speak at Holly Auditorium on November 21st

Dear Colleagues,

Please gather with your friends and colleagues on Nov. 21 for the Military Health Institute Distinguished Lecture featuring Vice Admiral (Ret) Raquel Bono, MD, the former Director of the Defense Health Agency.

Dr. Bono led the unprecedented merger of four separate health delivery systems into an integrated system of readiness and health for the entire military. She will share her experiences and insight for designing and sustaining a value-based health system through disruptive leadership.

A reception begins at 5:30 p.m., followed by Dr. Bono’s presentation from 6:30 pm to 7:30 p.m. in the Holly Auditorium on the UT Health San Antonio campus, located at 7703 Floyd Curl Drive in the South Texas Medical Center.

For more details and to register, please visit: https://makelivesbetter.uthscsa.edu/mhilecture

With great respect,

Byron C. Hepburn, M.D., FAAFP

Maj Gen, USAF, Ret.

 

STC-ACHE Hosts Fall Educational Event Featuring Panel on Medical Tourism

The South Texas Chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives (STC-ACHE) is hosting their Fall Educational Event on October 4th, 2019 at the Club at Sonterra. Registration begins at noon, and the event concludes with a networking/happy hour from 4 to 5 pm. The session topic is, Medical Tourism: The Globalization of Healthcare. This is an important topic for today’s healthcare executive, so this is an opportunity not to be missed!

Register now on Eventbrite!