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Purchase a chance to win a great ATV and support The Kingdom Healthcare System!

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Many of our HLSA regulars know Dr. Hussein Musa and Dr. Adetoun Musa, the husband-and-wife physician founders of The Kingdom Healthcare System, a wonderful San Antonio based non-profit that, in their own words, “Provides access to free and affordable primary healthcare to medically underserved communities as a physical example of God’s love for all people.” Kingdom’s scope and outreach has been growing rapidly since we met the Musa’s two years ago, including the recent addition to their team of Hondo Esparza as Director of Operations. Together, they are in the midst of a new fundraising campaign featuring a chance at a really nice ATV for only $15! The drawing will be held Wednesday, May 22, 2024, so there is still plenty of time to purchase your ticket by scanning the QR code below. Please help the Kingdom team help the medically underserved in our community by supporting this worthy cause!

 

Shots for Soldiers

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HLSA is helping our friends at the San Antonio chapter of the Free Market Medical Association raise awareness of a new program called Shots for Soldiers. The program will help make available to veterans a patent-pending new therapy, developed by a small, eponymous Kansas-based non-profit. Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) therapy uses injections of a concentration of a patient’s own platelets to accelerate the healing of injured tendons, ligaments, muscles and joints and is effective in pain management. The current need is for volunteer physicians to administer the program. Please read the flyer below for complete details and if you an interested physician, or know a physician who might be, please share this post. You can email Shankar Poncelet at [email protected].

 

 

Stephan Porter Announces Launch of New Military Chamber of Commerce

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Recently our good friend Stephan Porter took time to tell us about his mission to help veterans, active-duty personnel and their families with a new Military Chamber of Commerce scheduled to launch in July of this year. One major focus of the project will be to address the problems of veteran and military suicide, which is tragically on the rise in the United States.

Please take a moment to view this important message from Stephan and share it with others. You can find more information on the web and Linkedin at:

http://militarycommunitychamber.org/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/militarycommunity-coc/

or call (830) 742-9500

 

 

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

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

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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]

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

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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

American Doctors Address COVID-19 Misinformation with SCOTUS Press Conference

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*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

 

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

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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

Simon Sinek: How Great Leaders Inspire Action

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Take some time while you’re here to watch this inspiring TED Talk by Simon Sinek, on how great leaders inspire action. In Simon’s words, “People don’t but what you do, they buy what you believe. And what you do simply proves what you believe.” While the video dates to 2009, some life lessons bear repetition, and Simon is a compelling speaker. Enjoy.

 

HLSA on the Bobby and JJ Radio Show (930AM)!

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A segment about Healthcare Leaders of San Antonio was featured as one of the interviews on the Bobby and JJ Radio Show on Sunday, March 19, 2017. Our thanks go out to Bobby and JJ, and to Jackie Boyle for the segment which we know will raise even more awareness about our monthly networking mixers. Our goals are to foster business connections and new opportunities. We invite you to join us the second Thursday of every month from 5 to 8 pm.

Come and connect!