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Asalus times (march 2010 issue) draft

Vol. 7 No. 1
is new AHMOPI President
By : Camille "Camry" T. Silos IntelliCare Chairman level-playing field for all
and President, Mario M. Silos, companies who are a part of
is the newly-elected president of AHMOPI to compete with each
the Association of Health other without undue advantage
Maintenance Organizations of or disadvantages, as well as
the Philippines, Inc. (AHMOPI). providing a venue where the
It is a non-stock and non-profit members can give advice to
umbrella organization composed other members in the association
of all the major HMOs and other and discuss various relevant
similarly-engaged pre-paid topics with each other. Lastly,
healthcare companies in the AHMOPI is a vehicle by which
country.
HMOs deal with the government Mr. Silos elaborates that - taxes, requirements, vali- "AHMOPI is there to represent dations, medical organizations,and enlighten the public on and the public for complaints, (left) Mr. Francis J. Kong - AHMOPI Speaker HMOs being a distinct and resolutions and general informa- (right) Mr. Mario M Silos - IntelliCare and AHMOPI President i m portant sub-sector in the tion.
healthcare industry. It is also On a personal note, Mr. sible healthcare. The chal- Silos was quite clear in his lenge, given the country's dire operate in the market place – provides the meat or substance understanding of the critical lack of resources, is to find new ethics, professionalism, prod- to the constitutional mandate, role AHMOPI must undertake, and innovative ap proaches ucts sold and mode of delivery, which is to provide healthcare in providing the Filipinos af- perseverance to reach out to a s s o ciation also provides a right." fordable, available and acces- one and all.
IntelliCare's new POS
verification system:
Evolving alongside
Pre-eminence
To continuously provide value to diagnostics, in-patient and User-friendly plug and recommendation will not its services and members, one emergency revolutionizes patient suffice, the attending must innovate. IntelliCare membership eligibility by
physician may write at the recently partnered with Veridata providing the following
back of the slip.
Networks, Inc. to maximize the
advantages and benefits to Additional provisions for The slip can also advantages of using state-of the- IntelliCare's affiliated medical the following information be customized to include art technologies.
providers and IntelliCare were also added in the transaction slip: Veridata installed their
PRC license of the Point of Service (POS) terminals
GPRS-based system (no attending physician for This is indeed another customer in IntelliCare's accredited telephone line is easier identification of service innovation to delight hospitals and clinics and trained IntelliCare members and the medical personnel on the use Battery-mode option (can trailblaze a new approach to of the machine starting January
still operate for a limited recommendation. In case 2010. This new POS verification
time for power-outage the space for the system for consultation,

2 IntelliCare Newsletter Chairman & President Mr. Mario. M. Silos ROAD TO WELLNESS 2010
By: Camille "Camry" T. Silos In our unending quest to triumph over illness and unhealthy lifestyle, IntelliCare
brings back its wellness fair with the theme "Road to Wellness 2010". Spearheaded by the
Human Resource Management and Development (HRMD), the
event officially began on March 4,
2010 (Thursday) at the Skyland
Plaza Atrium with a short program
to welcome IntelliCare's special
guests and wellness partners -
Pfizer,
Healthcare, Gardenia, Slimmers
World and the Institute of Culinary
Arts and Food Service.
Mr. Rommel Ancheta –
IntelliCare AVP for HRMD
explained, in his opening remarks,
the significant relationship of
productivity and a healthy
workforce. Mr. Mario M. Silos, IntelliCare Chairman and
President, further stressed the importance of having a healthy human resource in contributing
to the attainment of the company's goals and targets. IntelliCare had its banner year in 2009
and will continuously go beyond expectations. According to Mr. Silos, the motto for 2010 is:
"The best is yet to come."
Dr. Neil Rodrigo, IntelliCare Corporate Physician, presented the activities planned for
the two-day event, shared some exercise tips and facts, and ended the program by calling oneveryone to support and advocate the shift to a healthy lifestyle.
Booths of the partner companies were opened the whole day for IntelliCare members to avail of free services and product samples.
On day two, IntelliCare's wellness partners conducted free lectures and audio-visual "Health is Wealth" was given by nutritionists April Cunana, Lovely Cervas and Aine De
Guzman from Gardenia, followed by a special documentary titled "Rave Health". Pascual Lab
Events and Project Officer, Levi Farinas, and Product Assistant, Rochelle Floriza, conducted a
product promotion.
Dr. Michelle Lopez-Lim from Pfizer lectured on "Lifestyle Diseases". Following her
lecture was another documentary film titled "Super Size Me" and another lecture titled
"Healthy Food Choices" by Paz Sales, a nutritionist from the Institute of Culinary Arts and Food
ended with high energies
(literally) as Ryan Sungcuan
and Preach from Slimmers
World led the employees in
aerodance.

3 IntelliCare Newsletter The Blessed Journey
By: Ernesto M. Reyes Jr. R e c e n t e v e n t s - question the cavil or standards fice by our staff and dear Our Daily Bread said it economic, political and set for our own recovery.
associates. Through this right. Many of our New Year's natural - left a deep scar in depression you have been resolutions may actually our national psyche, unraveling a fabric of political, personal ourselves because all our e n couraged us with your instead of helping us slow and economic instability. present efforts are not widespread approval of our down. In the quest for greater Businesses continue to be enough. We still need sound corporate actions. For this productivity and efficiency, hounded from pillar to post business policies to buttress we are thankful.
we overschedule our days, and we are left to our own our survival and allow us to then rush through our meals, feel anew the bounties of In return, we promise drive impatiently, and some- good corporate governance.
times, wonder why the joy of that every resource we But all the while, these We shall count in the future, living eludes us.
events had provided us with have at our disposal shall as in the past, on the driving the greatest business learning power of individual initiative be devoted to the end of But we need not be experience of our corporate and the incentive of fair justifying your confidence.
pessimistic. As a matter of lives. Yet we have survived private profit, and we shall fact, here at IntelliCare we
all of the arduous burdens and be strengthened with our As we go into our may just be looking at another the threatening dangers of a obligations to the public. fifteenth (15th) year, we shall banner year for 2010, what great economic calamity.
N o w w e s h a l l b e m o r e go forward for we believe with an onslaught of huge andcircumspect.
that a wise and sensible good accounts as the year While we are making beginning has been made and barely started. All the more this great common effort, We have never seen will continue to be at our call, that we should be optimistic dispute. This is no time to determination and self-sacri- uncharted future.
many many times over.
Literary Ventures like fireflies they flicker across the deep, dark-blue drowned in white mist yet still shining through a mob of light till the gray fades away waiting patiently for death, they lay a parade of masterpieces, an epitome of art cuts like a knife across this crystal clear night you fall from the heavens, an act of war let me make a wish upon you, let me call you star no color can surpass the brilliance of your gold an empty, hollow shell with blood on your mold your wandering thoughts captured my youth you are like an addiction, a cancer never cured Sheinlee is part of the Claims Processing Department of IntelliCare Calamba branch. A former bassist and composer in a band, he writes during his free time.His favorite authors are Jessica Zafra, Bob Ong and Dan Brown.

4 IntelliCare Newsletter (VP for Operations, CBK Power Co. Ltd.) (President, CBK Power Co. Ltd.) (IntelliCare PRO) (IntelliCare PRO) "We thank you very much for your great "We CBK appreciate ur sincere effort and help, we come to thank you again with in few kindness. If we need u, wed like to contact you tomorrow. Best regards." AARON FRANCIS SAMONTE
THOMAS JOSELITO B. AGUILAR
EVA TENGCO
(IntelliCare ) (IntelliCare CSS) "I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE EVA A KUDOS CALL AND COMMEND HER ON EXEMPLARY EFFORTS "Alfred, I hope your supervisor gets to read THAT HAPPENED LAST THURSDAY NIGHT CALLED GLOBE NO. NO ONE WAS ANSWERING. CALLED this msg. You are an asset to the company THE SMART GUD THING SHE WAS THE ONE WHO HANDLED D CALL, I CAN SAY SERVICE WAS MORE and i hope everybody in Intellicare is like THAN EXPECTED I ALWAYS DO CALL CUSTOMER SERVICE, OF ALL SHE SHOWED EMPATHY AND you. God Bless." CONCERN. I RAN OUT OF LOAD THAT TIME THERE'S NO STATION IN SITE TO LOAD, NEED TOINFORM MY KID'S MOTHER WHICH SHE NEEDS TO KNOW WHAT TO DO. WAS NOT EXPECTING ACALLBACK BUT SHE DID AND RESOLVED MY ISSUE. IF GIVEN A CHANCE SHE COULD BE ONE OFUS. " From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:41 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: commendation for Fatima Macalaba
From: rod adricula [[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 5:02 AM
I just want to inform you that i am a very satisfied customer. the agent, Fatima Subject: mr. dk africa
Macalaba is very helpful and she is also verypolite. She was able to explain everything to to whom it may concern, me and it was really nice talking toher.Please forward this email to her dept i would like to thank you for your very and supervisor. Thank so much. can u also good service accorded my wife in her email me so that i would know that her recent confinement in st. luke's hospital.
supervisor get my commendation.thanks!! mr. dk africa, your patient relationsofficer, is a great asset of your company.
he helped us in everything regarding our admission and discharge from the hospi- tal. His interaction with us was very Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 4:56 AM
commendable, going out of his way, by assuring the cashier to get through with Subject: Others - Please Specify
the payment of our billing despite the lack Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 11:12 AM
of some doctors' signatures which he Hi, I just want to express my appreciation on Subject: FW: Thank you Note
promised to the cashier he will submit how fast and efficient your service is espe- Attention: INTELLICARE MANAGEMENT
later and going to the doctors themselves cially when my son got hospitalized from 01/ to secure their signatures. he explained to 06/10 to 01/08/10 at Medical City. Thank To whom it may concern, us all that we needed to know about the obligations of intellicare to us and guided This is to show our family's appreciation us in the processing of our hospital JENNY LYN B. SAMONTE
for the consideration extended by one of your employees named Jason Tolentino. He is one of
the Intellicare coordinator assigned in Medical City
kudos to mr. dk africa and to intellicare.
in Pasig. My mom named Perla Rombaoa hadundergone an ERCP procedure last Tuesday, and From: Sandra Mae B. Cases
thank you very much.
without the help of Jason who extended the time in issuing the Letter of Authorization maybe we Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:03 PM
will not be able to save the life of our mother.
Rod A. Adricula
Though it's hard on his part to explain to us the Rotary Club Of Siniloan
policy that the illness of my mother is not covered Subject: thank you
by the Healthcard and it is a pre-existing condi- tion; he has explained the reason of non-coverageof my mom's illness with all kindness and in Just a short note to say "thank you!" for the addition he has given to us some other options in effort which you and your team extended order for the said diagnosis to be covered by during the transition. Your initiative in From: REY, Ma Carissa (Care) T.
requesting Brokenshire and Davao Doctors' I know a mere "Thank You" is not enough hospitals to accommodate Intellicare coverage to say how much we have appreciated his help. But for our employees during the transition is we are hoping that thru this letter somehow you Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 4:10 PM
noted and very much appreciated.
may recognize his abilities and be given a recom- Subject: Intellicare Team Service
The partnership is off to a great start! Just like to commend your INTELLICARE Thank you & God Bless! team assigned at Medical City, for the Please extend my thanks as well to your patience, kindness and the wonderful assistance rendered to our family, when my mom (ANITA TOMAS) was confined in the hospital last week.
Sandra Mae B. Cases
Cebu Pacific Air
Manager - Human Resources Department We sincerely appreciate the excellent
service of your team: Rocelle Tabile,
Jayson Tolentino and Bong Mendoza.
From: DENNIS DALUZ (ISDC-ISD-OOCLL/MNL)
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:57 AM
They were trained to SERVE and they truly To: ANNA JOAN ASPIRAS (MGT-HRA-OPI/MNL)
did a GOOD job.
Joan, just want you to know that we were very impressed with Intellicare services during my hospital stay. They were very helpful, lots of value added service and made sure they were servicing us down toa personal level.
Carissa Rey
5 IntelliCare Newsletter MEDICAL PROVIDER UPDATES
Hospitals & Clinics
QUEZON IMAGING CENTER, INC.
AVENTUS MAKATI CLINIC
Mt. Carmel Diocesan General Hospital Compound 2/F Beneficial PNB Life Bldg., Salcedo St.
Allarey Ext., Lucena City Legazpi Village, Makati City Tel # (042) 373-5740 Coordinator: Dr. Gerardo Jiao Clinic Hours: M-Sat 8:00am-5:00pm QUEZON IMAGING CENTER, INC.
Tel. # 818-8671, 751-4965, 830-2320, 888-5556 Lucena United Doctors Hospital and Medical Center Compound Brgy. Isabang, Lucena City AVENTUS ALABANG CLINIC
Tel # (042) 660-2882 Unit S3-10 to 20 South Station - Green Bldg. Alabang Zapote Road, Alabang, Muntinlupa City QUEZON IMAGING CENTER, INC.
Clinic Hours: M - Sat / 8am to 5pm Lopez St. Jude General Hospital Compound Yumul St., Tel # (042) 841-1973 AVENTUS ORTIGAS CLINIC
Ground Floor AIC Grande Tower QUEZON IMAGING CENTER, INC.
Sapphire St., cor. Garnett Road Quezon and Peter Paul Medical Center of Candelaria Ortigas Center, Pasig City Candelaria, Quezon Clinic Hours: M - Sat. 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Tel # 0917 5020770 Tel Nos. 706-3840, 706-3842, 706-3843 MEDCARE HEALTH CLINIC, INC. (HS-08248)
Km. 27, Aguinaldo Highway, AVENTUS (PCS) QUEZON CITY CLINIC
Anabu II-E, Imus, Cavite 2/F Philippine College of Surgeons (PCS) Bldg., Tel # (046) 850-0537, 696-1069, 02-3849532 992 North Edsa, Quezon City Clinic Hours: M-Sat / 8am to 5pm GP GENESIS DIALYSIS CLINIC (HS-08240)
Tel # 929-4983, 929-4693, 929-5127, Bonaventure Plaza, Greenhills, San Juan Tel # 723-1052 / Telefax # 723-1385 AVENTUS CALAMBA CLINIC
ISABELA DOCTORS GENERAL HOSPITAL
Unit S5,S8 to S10 Daniel Commercial Complex Baligatan Ilagan, Isabela Old National Hi-way, Brgy. Parian, Coordinator: Dr. Lourdes A. Sajonas Tel # (078)-6242071, 622-2675 Clinic Hours: M-Sat 8:00-5:00pm Tel (049) 545-4446/545-5293 SACRED HEART MEDICAL CENTER
Mcarthur Highway, Sto. Domingo, Angeles City AVENTUS STA. ROSA CLINIC
Coordinator: Dr. Nenita S. Tan- Canlas Unit 26 and 27 Sta. Rosa Commercial Complex, Tel # (045) 625-7876, 0921-7130266 Balibago, Sta. Rosa City Clinic Hours: M-Sat. 8am to 5pm THE MEDICAL CITY – ALIMALL BRANCH
Tel. # (049) 534-1069, 534-1063 Lower Ground Floor, Alimall Phase II, Telefax (Manila Line) 520-8522 Araneta Center, Quezon City Tel # 709-2455, 709-2661 AVENTUS (U.N. AVE.) MANILA CLINIC
801 United Nations Avenue, Ermita Manila THE MEDICAL CITY – CALOOCAN
Clinic Hours: M-Sat / 8am to 5pm 3F Victory Mall, Old Victory Compound, Rizal Ave., Tel. # 536-4941, 521-8108,536-5158 Monumento, Caloocan City AVENTUS CEBU CLINIC
ST. JUDE HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER
Unit 203, 2/F TGU Tower Dimasalang Street, corner Don Quixote Street, Jose Maria del Mar corner Salinas Drive Asiatown I.T. Park, Ba. Apas, Cebu City Tel#731-2761 to 65 Clinic Hours: M-Sat. 8am to 5pm Tel. # (032) 238-1060 to 62, 479-9001 Fax # (032) 236-2585 DR. HELENITA O. DE GUZMAN
KINZAHN DENTAL CLINIC 3F LOL Bldg., Asuncion St. cor. Edsa, Caloocan City MWF 9AM-1PM / TTHS 1PM-5PM Tel # 332-4880 / 572-4687 M-TECH HOSPITAL (CLOSED)
DR. NOWELL P. LETRONDO
56 Jupiter 1 Building, Jupiter St., Bel-Air Village, Makati City DR. CONSUELO ELIZABETH BLASCO
DR. MA. CRISTINA L. BULANADI
TIMESQUARE MEDICAL SERVICES (CLOSED)
FRIENDLY HILLS MEDICAL SERVICES INC Rm. 2 2/f Superstone Building, Araneta Center, Socorro, Cubao, Quezon City Basement1, Bldg.B, Manila East Rd. SM City, Taytay Rizal MEDPRO (BACOOR BRANCH) (CLOSED)
G/F CTM Building, KM 19 Gen. Tirona Highway, Dulong Bayan, Bacoor, Cavite Tel # 661-1988/661-1989 CENTRO MEDICO SPECIALTY CLINICS has changed its name to CLINICA MARIKINA MULTISPECIALTY CLINICS, INC.
As of March 8, 2010, METROPOLITAN MEDICAL CENTER, located at 1357 G. Masangkay Street, Binondo, Manila, is temporarily on a "cash basis" term
due to internal hospital problems.
6 IntelliCare Newsletter Looking Ahead:
IntelliCare 2010Planning Conference By: Jude Edmon Anthony "Jutz" M. Ola
T he game of business used to be like football: size mattered. Then it changed to basketball: speed and agility. Today, business is more like chess. Customer priorities change continually, and the signals givenby these changes are vital clues to the next cycle of growth." - Adrian Slywotzky, author of The Profit Zone. To survive, much more to succeed, firms spearheaded by AVP del Castillo and management team and employees to must be more proactive in squaring off assisted by Senior Planning Analyst, Jude ensure the long-term success of the with the different issues in the business company. Having an extended planning environment. And in order to ride above horizon enables a company to aptly the waves of change, IntelliCare shifted During the pre-planning last November, strategize in order to make full use of from the Annual Planning format and the functional areas tried their hands at its strengths and minimize, if not adopted the Strategic Planning format.
integrating the concept into their plans eliminate, its weaknesses. Looking and stretching their planning horizons ahead also enables the immediate The shift is on-going and is not a very for the next three years. It proved to recognition of opportunities that may easy task. It started in the early part of be a challenging task as the concept was be exploited and early detection of of 2009 with the introduction of the a new one, but the management team threats to defend against.
Balanced Scorecard (BSC), a revolutionary readily faced the task along with the management tool developed over the responsibility of being officers and Strategy is indeed vital and the business years by Harvard business thinkers employees of the Pre-eminent HMO of
environment of today highlights its Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton.
the Philippines – a challenge brought
importance even more. Aside from The concept had its roots way back in forth by the Chairman and President
planning the strategy, it is also the early 1990's and IntelliCare Strate-
of the company, Mr. Mario M. Silos.
important to monitor and control it gic Management Department (SMD)
as well. According to Sir Winston Head, AVP, Reynaldo del Castillo, has
As the company approaches its 15th year,
Churchill, "However beautiful the been studying its development over the strategy, you should always look at the years. The concept of the BSC takes incorporating the preeminence stature into account not just the finan- of IntelliCare in the HMO industry, serves as a beacon to guide the management With the improvement of the economy the yardstick of success in the in- team in achieving their goals and and the business environment, the dustrial age – but also the customer, in- objectives. Over the years, IntelliCare company is set to solidify its position as ternal business process, and the learning has experienced considerable growth the country's leading HMO. There will and growth perspectives as well. To- and has triumphed amidst the most be greater challenges and the stakes will gether, these four perspectives provide trying economic crises. Indeed, as the be higher. In all these, IntelliCare's
a balanced mix of leading and lagging global economy was brought to its knees Strategic Management Department will
indicators necessary for firms plan- during last year's recession, IntelliCare do all they can with what they have to ning their strategies in today's infor- upended the trend and made it a help senior management ensure that the banner year. The company and its concerted effort of every IntelliCare management team are indeed a force family member is aligned with the The balanced scorecard recognizes also to be reckoned with, alongside the company's strategy. After the plans are the need for long-term planning. Thus, employees. As always, Mr. Silos crafted, the men and women of the along with the shift from annual to recognizes that our employees are our company will have a clear outline so that strategic, the BSC was introduced these strategies may be put into action during the Mid-Year performance review in order to maintain preeminence in the by the Strategic Management Department.
With the information age, the company The one-day seminar workshop was 7 IntelliCare Newsletter HALF FULL, HALF EMPTY:
THE CHEAPER MEDICINES LAW
By: Camille "Camry" T. Silos For the last three years, the patient's body, a means d i s counted Congress, the Department of of countering the problem is prices. The first Health (DOH), health groups needed.
and many, many others have cines whose prices been hooked on a topic that According to DOH, were lowered by some terms as one of the big- they are aware that more almost 50 percent gest health news since 2007 - Filipinos are now better in August included the Cheaper Medicines Bill informed in their right to Pfizer's Norvasc
choose the medicines they (amlodipine) and
know that work for them L i p i t o r
This bill was finally along with which medicines (atorvastatin), as
passed as a law on August 15, they can afford. They also well as GSK's
2009 and is now called the added that more Filipinos a n t i b i o t i c
Cheaper Medicines Law acknowledge that generic A u g m e n t i n
(CML). The CML is meant as drugs are as safe and effective (amoxicillin and
a means of answering the as the branded ones.
growing concern of the Esperanza Cabral said they
Philippine population in As DOH believes in the will make sure medicine safeguarding themselves right of every Filipino to have from common illnesses to access to safe and quality included in the first batch posting price lists of the p a n d e m i c s . I t a i m s t o medicines that are affordable, were for chronic diseases, medicines covered by the
respond to the medical and they cite the CML as a way to b l a d d e r a n d p r o s t a t e price cut. Under Section
health needs of the people produce a market where d i s orders, hepatitis, 35 of Republic Act 9502,
in terms of not only medicines are affordable asthma, depression and the Cheaper Medicines
affordability but also in to the people, may they be psychotic and mental Law, violators face
necessity in these trying generic or branded.
disorders, as well as some penalties
medical equipment and P100,000 to P1 million.
Many multinational fluids for dialysis. Prices Succeeding offenses may
I t i s a c o m m o n pharmaceutical companies are expected also to go result in the suspension or s c e n a r i o , t o s a y t h e seem keen on the bill as well, down for asthma inhaler revocation of the
need to purchase certain devoted to the welfare of medicines.
o p e r ate (LTO), business or drugs to alleviate or treat the citizens as compared to professional license, as the whatever illness they have, interests in the business realm The second batch of case may be.
however, due to the fact that (with some manufacturers medicines has been approved the medicines necessary offering to cut prices on March 31. This included are priced too high and the voluntarily).
essential medicines in the If ever one cannot patient cannot afford them, following categories, that will prevent medical problems they encounter another be sold for half of their from themselves, to have problem apart from that Medicines Law, all drugstores which ails their body. A pressure, cholesterol, would undoubtedly help
double attack that can lead and hospital pharmacies are antibiotics, anti-cancer, improve the health care
to further deterioration of required to c h a r g e t h e and renal dialysis fluids.
position in the country.
with Rose Pharmacy
IntelliCare recently tied-up with
Recamadas, Cebu Regional
Rose Pharmacy, a national retail
Operations Manager, and Mr. JM
drugstore chain in the Philippines, Gellez, Cebu Business
to provide its members with cheaper medicines thru discounts.
With the partnership, IntelliCare The partnership was formalized members can now avail of special during a formal contract signing discounts on cash purchases of held last January 26, 2010 at Bo's
medicines in any Rose Pharmacy Coffee Executive Lounge, Cebu
branch nationwide by presenting City. Rose Pharmacy was
their IntelliCare cards. A 5% discount
represented by it's Vice-President
will be given on generic medicines
– National Sales, Marketing &
and 1% on branded medicines.
Currently, Rose Pharmacy has over From left to right: Napeñas; while Intellicare was
Norman Amora (IntelliCare AVP - Sales & Marketing), represented by Mr. Norman Amora
Bernadette Napeñas (Rose Pharmacy VP - National Sales, Marketing (AVP – Sales & Marketing), Mr. Ray
& Merchandising) and Ray Garcia (IntelliCare AVP - VISMIN) Garcia (AVP-VISMIN), Mr. Chito
8 IntelliCare Newsletter I N T E R C A R E
Intercare can make a difference — a difference in terms not only of alleviating your immediate pain, but the difference in your overall quality of life. Bone and muscle problems can affect all people. Young and old,physically fit or not, whether just sitting behind desks or enjoyingactive weekends can cause stress, tension, over exertion and anumber of other factors that contribute to stress and displacementin the spine. These may cause irritations to the nerves in the spine.
These can cause various malfunctions in the body from painrelated to the low back and even headaches and migraines.
Chiropractic is a natural non-invasive, drugless branch of thehealing arts, that treat conditions affecting our bones and muscles,ligaments and cartilage.
Acupuncture is an ancient healing and health promoting technique developed by the Chinese. It is based on the theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) which is 4,000 years old. It involves the insertion of special needles into specific anatomical points on the body. Acupuncture is recognized by the World Health Organization and National Institute of Health in the United States for the treatment of at least 44 conditions.
Complementing our overall wellness approach, Intercare offers theservice of professional counselors who will assist you with stressmanagement and emotional stress relief methods. In being able todeal more effectively with emotional stress related loads. You mayimprove your overall quality of life. The content of your sessions iskept in strict and absolute privacy with an assurance of totalconfidence.
IntelliCare does not cover chiropractic care and acupuncture but IntelliCare members who
wish to avail these procedures will get 15% discount on their first visit or treatment
at any Intercare branch.
For more information check #13 Molave St., near Escario St.
Unit D, Upper GF, out www.intercare- centers.com or you can also Investment Drive, 8420 Kalayaan Ave., Makati City Madrigal Business Park call and visit them at: Alabang, Muntinlupa 26-A Eisenhower St.
Greenhills, San Juan Editorial Team Editorial Consultants Executive Editor RAY GARCIA
ERNESTO M. REYES, JR.
CAMILLE T. SILOS
AVP, VisMin Regional Operations AVP, Administrative Services Artist, Marketing Support Services Marketing Support Services MARY JANE VICEDO
Board of Advisers Assistant, Marketing Support Services MARIO M. SILOS
JINKY R. RECTO
Chairman & President Manager, Marketing Support Services DR. LOUIE J. AGREGADO
Head, Medical Relations AUDREY MELDY B. GALLARDO
Associate Editors Supervisor, Administrative Services DR. LOUIE J. AGREGADO
Senior Supervisor, Head, Medical Relations Strategic Management JEREMY G. MATTI
JERICO C. DELA CRUZ
RONA SOGUECO
VP, Sales & Marketing Senior Manager, Billing Senior Account Processor LUZ A. TEAÑO
Manager, Cebu Operations GERRY A. VARGAS
Senior Manager, Human Resource Management & Development Manager, Davao Operations LEO POLINAG
ERIC AMANTE B. TRINIDAD, JR.
HONEY ROBLE
LYN REBOSA
RICARDO L. JOCSON, MD
Manager, Administrative Services Asst. Manager, Cagayan De Oro RENE SATOR
Manager, Calamba

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