Retail Healthcare Strategic Partners
McKesson is the eighteenth largest company in the United States and the single largest health care company in the world. They specialize in the distribution of healthcare systems, medical supplies and pharmaceutical products. McKesson has a particular focus in retail for Home Healthcare where there is a more chronically ill population, tighter reimbursement rules, pay-for-performance and a nursing shortage bearing down on the industry.
They have made a serious commitment to the development and expansion of their healthcare product line. In order to achieve their future goals, McKesson understands Retail Healthcare is an important distribution strategy of the future.
McKesson is a strategic supplier of healthcare related products to Paquin Healthcare Companies’ e-commerce store. Jim Pearson, Vice President of National Accounts, Home Care, is a contributor to Tony Paquin’s book.
HealthPlex Associates
Healthplex Associates is the nation’s leading consulting firm for Hospitals, Health Systems, Universities and other medical and healthcare professionals who seek to create unique wellness, fitness and ambulatory care centers to promote a healthy lifestyle in their community. Healthplex Associates is led by seasoned healthcare executives who understand the continuum of care and offer a full range of services; feasibility analysis, clinical integration planning, design and construction oversight, financing assistance, equity partnership, management outsourcing, as well as operational analysis and audit.
HealthPlex has built over 400 clinically integrated fitness centers at hospitals around the country.
Med Touch
Hospitals recognize the importance of connecting with patients and the general community online. MedTouch specializes in executing excellence in web strategies within the healthcare environment by implementing an evidence-based website design process. Forward thinking hospitals are investing in their online presence particularly in highly effective websites. MedTouch is a national leading developer of websites specifically for hospitals focusing on interactivity and education. Further, MedTouch delivers a suite of robust customized on-line applications for their clients.
Paquin Healthcare and MedTouch partner to deliver online strategies including Customer Loyalty programs and ecommerce solutions to hospital clients nationwide.
The Hartman Group
The Hartman Group is the number one think tank on consumer and wellness trends in America. Principal, Harvey Hartman, is a nationally recognized expert on American cultural change and the consumer activities that impact daily business products and services. Harvey has authored three marketing texts, the most recent being “Reflections on a Cultural Brand: Connecting with Lifestyles,” which analyzes the historical foundation of the “cult of the brand.” The Hartman Group consults with major corporations to integrate the wellness trends of today’s consumers into their business models.
The Hartman Group is the driving force behind McDonald’s adding salads to their menus. With consumer-driven healthcare on the rise, understanding consumer wellness trends is essential for every healthcare organization in the country.
The Hartman Group delivers that expertise.
The Hartman Group is a collaborative partner on the development and analysis of national wellness trends. Harvey Hartman, Principal, is a key contributor to Tony Paquin’s book and a frequent speaker at Paquin events.
Medela
Medela provides the most technologically advanced, superior-quality breast pumps and breastfeeding accessories to nursing mothers around the world. A longtime champion of breastfeeding, Medela is the only company to develop products based on research by the world’s leading lactation experts. As a result, Medela’s breast pumps are the number one choice of healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities worldwide, including 80 percent of U.S. hospitals.
Medela is an essential part of a Retail Healthcare strategy particularly in conjunction with lactation programs provided at birthing hospitals throughout the country. Lactation services are a significant program to enhance the patient care continuum.
Medela works closely with the Paquin Consulting Team in assessing lactation center opportunities in birthing hospitals across the country.
Infusion Capital
InfusionCapital provides strategic investment banking services to Paquin Healthcare to help fund the Company’s deployment of advanced, high-margin revenue opportunities for the healthcare industry. InfusionCapital is an investment banking and investor relations advisory firm, specialized in a unique, integrated approach to capital formation for emerging growth companies. The firm has extensive experience in assisting client companies with each phase of capitalization and the complex processes that accompany it. They leverage their years of investment banking experience on Wall Street, and their long-term relationships with leading portfolio management firms, key investment managers, national brokerages and individual investors to help clients make the right connections and deliver a consistently powerful message that gets results.
Infusion Capital has been Paquin’s funding partner since the company’s beginning and provides ongoing representation to investor markets on behalf of Paquin Healthcare.
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