SignatureMD Partners with Life Line Screening

January 28, 2011

SignatureMD is partnering with Life Line Screening to provide its physicians and their patients access to preventive health screenings. Through this collaboration, SignatureMD physicians will refer patients to Life Line Screening sites to undergo various tests including vascular screenings, Type-2 diabetes screenings, and osteoporosis screenings among others. With Life Line Screening, physicians will be better able recognize a patient’s risk for disease, and implement lifestyle changes and a complete medical plan. It is through this comprehensive evaluation and individualized attention that will allow SignatureMD physicians to help their patients lead healthier, fuller lives.

Read press release announcement in full detail.

SignatureMD is a privately held, consumer healthcare services company, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California with physicians’ offices around the country. SignatureMD offers a patient-centered, wellness-focused, efficient health-care delivery system. SignatureMD’s network of doctors approach medicine by building a relationship with the patient and focusing on preventive care to ensure a longer, healthier life.

Vascular Disease Foundation Seeking Nominations for Jacobson Award

January 25, 2011

According to a press release dated today, the Vascular Disease Foundation (VDF) is looking for nominations for the 2011 Julius H. Jacobson II Award for Physician Excellence. The deadline for nominations is Friday, February 11.

Named for the doctor who pioneered microsurgery, being the first to bring a microscope into the operating room, Dr. Jacobson’s work led to coronary artery surgery and limb implementation. The VDF annually gives this award to recognize other doctors who have given outstanding contributions to physician education, leadership, or vascular disease care.

Criteria for each candidate are as follows:

• A licensed physician in good standing.
• Made significant contributions advancing the science or clinical practice for the prevention and treatment of vascular disease or made exceptional contributions to vascular education programs, either to health professionals or patients.
• Recognized for personal and professional integrity.
• Not a current member of the Board of Directors of the Vascular Disease Foundation.

The recipient of the 2010 award was Jack L. Cronenwett, MD, Professor of Surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Dr. Cronenwett ran a vascular surgery fellowship, initiated a vascular residency for new medical school graduates, served as President of the Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery, and designed a modern curriculum in the specialty.

You can learn more about the 2010 winner, find out how download a 2011 nomination form, and/or read this press release in full at http://www.vdf.org/pressroom/PR01252011.php.

Life Line Screening supports vascular health and is a proud sponsor of the Vascular Disease Foundation.

Cold-EEZE Skate for the Heart NBC Special on January 16

January 11, 2011

On Sunday, January 16, from 4pm to 6pm EST, the Skate for the Heart special will air on NBC. Life Line Screening is a proud sponsor of this special. Our commercial featuring Peggy Fleming will be shown during this time.

My family and I actually attended the taping of this special and I can assure you the skating is beautiful and the music is terrific!

Musical acts include: David Archuleta and Ruben Studdard from American Idol and Straight No Chaser, a fantastic acappella group that really brings the house down. All of this is tied to the American Heart Association.

Please watch this special and help spread the word!

Associations, Insurance Companies Offer Life Line Screening to Members

December 9, 2010

Over the last several years, many associations, insurance companies, corporations and unions have incorporated Life Line Screening services in their health offerings to their members, policyholders and employees. These organizations see the value in providing effective health screening services to individuals that enhance people’s ability to be proactive about their health.

Two of these organizations are the National Association of Retired Federal Employees (NARFE) and Bankers Life & Casualty Insurance Company. 

NARFE

Life Line Screening has worked with NARFE since 2003 and conducted 27,000 screenings for NARFE members in that time.  Individual screening results over the years have included very serious findings that most likely saved the person from a stroke or ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. Life Line Screening has also alerted thousands of people to disease that they did not know was present.  In fact, NARFE member, Earl Stanton, wrote that the screening “saved his life.”

But it isn’t just the lifesaving stories that touch our hearts here at Life Line Screening. We appreciate the comments from customers who let us know that they value the knowledge gained from the screening, had a good experience with us, and plan on coming back.

Comments like this come from various members including Evelyn Hersh in Tennessee, who writes, “I was pleased with having the knowledge concerning vascular disease  and how easy it was to have the various tests done at such a reasonable cost. My results were all in the normal range, and I will follow up again in two to three years.”

Bankers Life and Casualty

Bankers also has a long-time relationship with Life Line Screening, working with us since 2005.  Bankers’ customer, Linda Lewis let us know that we “…found an aneurysm in my husband’s stomach. What a blessing to have the opportunity to repair it.”

We thank you for writing, Linda, and hope Clint is doing well.

If you work with an insurance company, association or other company that provides member, employee or customer benefits, consider working with Life Line Screening. Providing access to important health services will enrich your relationship with your associates, workforce or clients.

Request information about joining our network today.

The Dr. Oz Health Expo Excitement Revisited

November 24, 2010

I hope you had a chance to watch the Dr. Oz Health Expo: Update on The Dr. Oz Show this morning.

I certainly did, and watching it really reminds me of how proud we, at Life Line Screening, are of our work and our business. After all, we get to help change lives every day by providing affordable access to potential life-saving health screening services for people no matter what their insurance status.

Also, we get to work with people like Dr. Oz in a team effort to inspire people to start paying better attention to their health whether or not the results of these preventive health screenings were favorable.

Just as we experience at our community-based events, the Dr. Oz Health Expo gave many people a clean bill of health, while others needed to hear about the potential risks that could cause life-threatening disease as well as encouragement to begin making changes.

As I watched, I was returned to the enthusiasm of that day in Chicago’s Millennium Park, echoed in my sentiment of, “You know…we’ve got friends bringing in friends, we’ve got wives bringing in husbands, we’ve got sisters. Everyone’s coming in as families. It’s really exciting today.” And it really was truly great to see the amount of caring and sharing.

If you missed the Dr. Oz Health Expo: Update, see Dr. Oz and Life Line Screening in action by watching a video of it now.

Have a safe and healthy Thanksgiving holiday and, in the words of Dr. Oz, “give thanks for the great gift of our health and take charge of it every day of our lives.”