Can our company help with financing my trip?

This is a good question fro a few reasons.
We at Premiere are strongly considering a financing arm to assist people with this option. Our impression is that it would help clients meet their medical needs. Arranging for financing requires a significant process to be developed on our part. We aim to eventually provide this service to qualified clients. We do not have it available at present.

WHen looking to finance an investment it is an interesting proposition to consider financing your health care needs. Cars for example depreciate with time, while investing in your health would carry implications that your life got better and you are able to potentially earn more money.

We will surely include this option as the company grows.

Be Well, Travel Safe

Jim McCormick MD
Premiere Medical Travel Company
818.917.6189

What can Medical Wellness offer our clients?

A growing movement to encourage wellness AND medical travel is important to build client traffic. Medical wellness may mean different things. I was able to recently engage in a conversation with well placed individuals on this subject. 

Here is what we discovered. Clients devote time in a more introspective and exotic location to learn about themselves and their medical conditions. Trained professional dietary consultants, physical trainers, medical specialists, cooking teachers and the host facilities would help the clients learn about the management of the illnesses.

How to manage diet, habits, physical activity and weight all prevent future medical complications. Not just booklets, but committed everyday learning and activity. Teaching these concepts in a more self-intensive location, allows more time to focus and learn. 

This pattern strengthens the teachings by incorporating these new habits into daily routines. Teams can develop to support each other at the destination. There is time to fully embrace and live this new life, free from the distractions of modern life.

In building this state of mind, strength of mind and habit changing activity, clients have a better chance of returning as a stronger person with new habits and learnings to successfully maintain their new found lives.

We want to develop groups of similar people who will travel, live, learn and return together. This team building approach also builds a better support network for when they return and challenges appear.

Best of health!

Jim McCormick MD

Premiere Medical Travel

Is the Philippines moving forward at a faster pace?

Recent conversations with a well placed individual in Manilla's healthcare system would clearly say "YES!"

More and more facilities are coming to understand the importance of JCI certification in order to have US clients feel more comfortable about medical care abroad. The government bodies that oversee this field are encouraging a broader embracing of participation in this important program.

There was a fair degree of certainty that the new air line terminal will open in the very foreseeable future. A welcome addition to the experience. It is an important improvement to the first impression that clients will experience.

As I stated in a previous blog post, there is tremendous investment in infrastructure here that will bear fruit. Perhaps sooner than I had expected. It is a welcome change in the schedule. The quicker the infrastructure and capacity is built the faster the market can mature here.

The Philippines is going to grow by leaps and bounds. When I was there recently, the commitment to creating the necessary capacity and quality facilities was in plain site. St Luke's Hospital, Makati Medical Center, Asian Medical Center and the Tagaytay facilities were all undergoing renovations, additions or building completely new facilities. 

A recent post to the RSS newsfeed for medical travel also discussed the growth and investment in Cebu City. Similar efforts are underway in Subic Bay. 

This will be a significant area of opportunity for medical travel/tourism in the very near future.

Jim McCormick, MD

Premiere Medical Travel

Jim McCormick MD Premiere Medical Travel

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Best of Health

Jim McCormick, MD