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As featured in: Share on social media:          If you or a family member broke an ankle or dislocated a shoulder, what if you could just use an app on your smartphone to schedule a visit at a nearby orthopedic urgent care center and, at the same time, also arrange for an Uber… Read More »

As featured in: Walk-in patients with ankle sprains, wrist fractures, concussions and other injuries will soon get instant relief with OrthoNOW Urgent Care expanding rapidly across the US. Calling itself the nation’s only orthopedic urgent care franchise, OrthoNOW opened its first location in Miami in 2010 and began awarding franchises in 2014. The franchisor is… Read More »

As featured in: OrthoNOW, a franchise business of specialized orthopedic urgent care centers, announced it would expand its franchise to include a location in Weston, Fla., by this fall and agreed to open several additional centers in Broward County over the next two to three years. The centers are focused on assessing and treating a… Read More »

As featured in: Alejandro Badia, M.D., was frustrated that he was the second and sometimes third stop for patients with hand and upper limb injuries. He was frustrated that he was called to the ER at midnight to attend patients who had been waiting for hours. He was frustrated that the public conversation on healthcare… Read More »

As featured image: A childhood calling and a passion for innovation turned Dr. Alejandro Badia on to his latest venture. Badia knew he wanted to be a hand surgeon at age of 8 when he accompanied his injured grandmother to the doctor and he witnessed orthopedic medicine firsthand. After graduating from New York University’s School… Read More »

As featured in: Of all the goods and services offered by franchises–giant pretzels, pest control, elliptical trainers–the most important is probably the one that goes least noticed: healthcare. In fact, many patients have visited a healthcare franchise without even realizing it. With the rising cost of healthcare and the millions of people expected to seek… Read More »

As featured in: Share on social media:          Access to affordable, quality healthcare is a major concern for everyone. Factors including; place of residence, income level, preexisting conditions, insurance coverage, age, corporate footprints, and provider reactions to supply and demand significantly influence an individual’s ability to gain entry to the world of medicine…. Read More »

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Share this on social media:      The one truism of the Affordable Care Act is that this legislation created the empowered patient. The empowered patient evolved from technology, transparency and a lack of primary care providers needed to service the patient population. What the empowered patient demands from the medical marketplace is better outcomes, at… Read More »