Of course you did! Serving our growing Latino population has captured the attention of investors! We include you in our celebration of Health Wildcatters, a nationally-recognized healthcare start up accelerator, inviting Vidas Sanas to be part of its 2015 Class! It is a nod to the growing influence of Latino healthcare consumers and the healthcare professionals dedicated to their health and wellbeing. !Felicidades! As you know, for the last 12 years our non-profit, The Works of Our Mother of the Americas, has been serving the Latino community and providers like you to strengthen the health and wellbeing of families within faith-health partnerships. A few months ago, Jesus (husband) and I began to focus on engaging Latino populations where they work. For we know that employee engagement is now a business strategy for companies of all sizes in their quest to lower costs -- and we know we can help them! Our Pivot
However, we realized that if we were going to move from transforming the lives of hundreds of lives to the 55 million Latinos living in the U.S. – we would have to transition Vidas Sanas to a for-profit company. Therefore we sought out nationally recognized healthcare leaders committed to our success of this new venture so as to be our Vidas Sanas Advisory Team and they are…
Enter Health Wildcatters And that’s where Health Wildcatters (HW) comes in. As you may know, HW is a nationally recognized mentor-driven healthcare accelerator. They provide mentorship, guidance and seed capital for our new company. It was formed by a group of investors that wanted to find, and fund, the most innovative startups in the health industry. For us, it’s an historical moment as we are the first Latino business ever invited to participate in their program. We came on top of hundreds of applications from all over the country because of our first-ever and innovative approach to health and wellbeing for Latino populations. Introducing Vidas Sanas, A Healthy Lives Platform Vidas Sanas, a Healthy Lives Platform, provides unique bilingual e-learning health platform developed for employers and healthcare providers to engage their Latino populations into behavior change. Our unique content is taught by passionate experts and we build a community that creates health. We do this through faith-based approaches, addressing the physical, emotional, spiritual and relational determinants of health, and using technology to achieve transform Latino health and well-being. (Please visit www.vidas.co for more information). What this means for you You have been part of our journey throughout these years and we thank you for your support. We want to continue working alongside you and welcome your expertise as a contributor to the content of our platform to help employers engage their insured Latino populations. We are looking to launch Latino summits via Vidas Sanas TV on a variety of topics. We will be the go-to resource of employers to help engage their population with our bilingual platform. You will be the go-to healthcare provider for employees looking for a medical home or solution to their medical or surgical need. For your patients In addition, as a physician, our platform will be a trusted resource for you to educate your patients. Your patients have access to our library of video courses and online tutorials taught by experts with high quality content that is evidence based and highly engaging to change unhealthy behaviors. What this means is that we engage your patients to take greater responsibility for their health and well-being so, together, we empower them to achieve health those outcomes so needed in this new world of value-based medicine. Expert –led content We are enriching our offerings with programs from world-renown experts in different fields on medicine, psychology, faith-based approaches, relationship technology and many others. As I mentioned, we invite you to be an expert on your field for our platform and make it available for your patients. Together we change lives Together we have the opportunity to create change in the lives of millions of Latinos within our first-ever behavior change ecosystem. Let us help employers manage the health population of their Latino employees and share our cultural values and strengths with other minority groups as in the words of Dr. DeHaven, “It is the community that creates health”. We firmly believe this and wish to bring back the social into medicine. Please let me know when you have the time for a short visit to keep you updated and see how we may continue to collaborate in serving our families. ¡Muchas gracias! Maria del Carmen |
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