Where Smiles are not just Superficial

Cebu Daily News, November 30, 2009

By: Ramon Taguchi

Modern science and modern medicine has armed all of us with treatment options, giving us powerful weapons in battling against diseases and health related problems. The same truth can be applied in the field of modern dentistry, as cutting edge dental developments-in-action are getting more and more readily accessible, saving pristine smiles from the pangs of tooth decay and tooth loss.

But, as the many dental treatment options have now become readily accessible to one and all, a question still persists, inquiring; why, even with all these cutting edge dental treatment options, are there still so many individuals hesitant to have their teeth regularly checked up?

The answer to this question naturally borders around different reasons coming from different personal views, the most commonly encountered of which would range along the lines of childhood-dentist related traumas and/or reading-the-bill related fears.

With Affinity Premium Dental Clinic, such fears are made so that they’re left at bay, if not, seen to that they are at their most minimum of levels.

Since 2008, Affinity Premium Dental Clinic has offered different dental treatments, ranging from cosmetic solutions for those with cosmetic dental concerns, to solving dental problems which require more serious dental treatments. Affinity’s highlighted offered services would include; teeth filling treatments, oral prophylaxis treatments, root canal treatments, simple and/or complicated tooth extraction procedures, orthodontic treatments, and impacted tooth surgery treatments.

Aesthetically, Affinity’s clinic interiors illicit from patients a calming effect, creating a relaxing space, one which says “there’s nothing to be afraid about.”

Those with dentist related traumas will surely find this aspect of Affinity assuring, as Affinity’s clinic is setup to not only be efficient as a dental clinic, but one which is also pleasing to the senses, calming patients before their turn is called.

As how much focus is given to the aesthetic side of Affinity’s interiors, no slack is given in her operations as a dental clinic. Proper hygiene is always held with high regard, and dentist-patient relations are kept open, allowing interaction between dentists and patients to flow seamlessly, making patients aware of what is going on with their teeth as their dentist explains to them what needs/has to be done regarding their case.

With where rates are concerned, Affinity’s treatment rates come reasonable, giving those with dentist-fee fears breathers from such woes. To say the least, Affinity Premium Dental Clinic prides itself in offering no-nonsense rates to clients, sparing many from having to break their piggy banks, allowing them to smile, not just because they got their smiles checked, but because they didn’t have to compromise with their respective budgets to get such glowing smiles.

As part of the Affinity Dental Care Network, Affinity Premium Dental Clinics is committed to deliver the highest quality of dental care to every Filipino at the most affordable cost, whether they are private or corporate card members. Currently, Affinity has already established other premium dental clinics in Makati, Alabang, Cebu, Bacolod and Cavite. Plans are also on the way to build more Affinity Premium Dental Clinics in Quezon City, Laguna, Davao and Ilo-ilo to serve its pool of discriminating foreign and local patients.

With Affinity Premium Dental Clinics, more Filipinos will be able to experience affordable quality dental care like never before.

How could anyone not naturally smile to that?

A Bite into Rest and Relaxation

Manila Bulletin, March 8, 2010

By: Brian B. Garcia

We each have unique experiences of dental clinics. Just like any other medical procedure, memories may vary from good times to downright traumatic. Nonetheless, there is always one factor most of us can relate to, the ambiance never changes. A visit to the dentist is almost always confined to the clinical, from the waiting room all the way to the dentist chair.

This, however, is the way dental clinics are supposed to be. Dentists after all are medical professionals that patients go to for expert advice. It’s conventional and has been that way for decades.

However, times are changing and people are starting to expect more out of the services that they receive. This has become more and more evident in the medical profession. With state of the art improvements being integrated around medical facilities, the practice is transcending more than just the general health of patients but the overall well-being of individuals.

This is where Affinity Premium Dental Clinics comes in and fuses the best of both worlds together. Affinity clinics, believe it or not, combines the technology of modern dental care with awesome interiors with a relaxing ambiance. With the use of eccentric furniture accented by antique fixtures, Affinity clinics exude a vibe reminiscent of premium spas.

Affinity aims to deviate from the stereotypical dentist visit experience. “We want our clinics to be really beautiful, because it helps calm the patients,” says Peter Yap Esquieres, owner of Affinity Premium Dental Clinics. With the use of their warm interiors, it’s easy for anyone to grow comfortable with the place, which is in itself a welcome break from the monotony of dental clinics.

The design of the place not only helps the patients feel at home, it also creates a positive environment for the employees. The work space balances the stress of work hours which is conducive to fostering relations with the patients.

What separates Affinity clinics, from all the other dental facilities available, is their commitment to offer patients with the best dental care service possible. Dr. Erwin S. Mejia, Affinity’s Dental Director, stresses that all the dentists under Affinity share the same sentiment of providing superior service. He also believes in the fact that the facility is only second to the kind of service they provide. Because it is precisely the service that would draw clients back to experience more of what Affinity can offer.

Another quality Affinity exhibits is its dedication towards educating their patients. Aside from taking care of people through their services, Affinity also believes in teaching the public about proper dental care. “Our goal is to help,” Esquieres stressed. And helping extends way more than the health care they provide because along with this, through patient education, they help manage their client’s expectation and delivers results that suit each individual.

Established in 2008, the Affinity Premium Dental Clinics were conceptualized in order to feed the demand of Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) cardholders, specifically Affinity Premium Dental Plan members. In order to provide the kind of service they want their clients to receive, they decided to put up their own chain of dental clinics that would not only cater to cardholders but private individuals as well. “We want to change the perception of cardholders towards their dental care,” Esquieres said.

However, despite the outstanding service and premium amenities Affinity offers, they still stand by their principle of helping promote dental care. To further demonstrate this drive, Affinity removes all biases when treating their patients. From high profile private clients, to simple cardholding employees, the Affinity team serves everyone with the same attention and care each deserves. And through their guaranteed rates, patients can expect quality service that they can afford.

Since its conception, Affinity has established a total of four clinics located at key urban areas in Makati, Cavite, Cebu and Bacolod. And it’s not long before they add more clinics in Quezon City and Alabang within the year. This again is to further pursue their goal of reaching out and being able to provide easier access to their services.

Rarely do we come across an organization that genuinely cares about the people they serve. And having a team that is built around the concept of helping people will certainly reap positive rewards. “In one year, our membership base has grown because I think people have seen the difference,” Esquieres notes.

Changes are always welcome. It just proves that, as human beings, we are never contented and we constantly look for ways to step up one level higher. Affinity takes us to this next level and hopefully others will follow soon and elevate the oral care industry in the Philippines.

Affinity Premium Dental Plan members can also avail of dental services from over 450 accredited dental facilities nationwide.

Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/node/246728/a-bite-re

Affinity Medical

Integrated Corporate Healthcare Solutions

The foundation of Affinity’s establishment as a health and wellness company is to be able to help our clients manage the rising cost of healthcare. In this regard, Affinity is engaged in the business of providing integrated corporate solutions that will complement and help companies manage their employee healthcare programs, promote occupational health and safety procedures and provide on-site healthcare delivery and administration services with the long-term end goal of making a healthier and more productive workforce.

Clinic Management Services

Affinity provides professional Medical Clinic Management services to corporate clients that may require all or any of the following services below:

- Professional Operations of Company Medical Clinics
- Deployment of Retainer Doctors and/or Nurses
- Health and Wellness Program Implementation
- Provision of Medical Supplies, Medicines and Equipment

For more information and to inquire about our Occupational Health and Clinic Management Services, please email info@affinityhealthandwellness.com

Affinity Vaccines

At the Forefront of Institutional Vaccination

Vaccination is a key component of Affinity’s commitment to preventive care.

Affinitas established Affinity in 2008 to develop, formalize, consolidate and pursue its advocacy for health and wellness programs in the country. Among our pioneering effort is the promotion and implementation of mass immunization programs among employee populations against vaccine-preventable diseases.

Affinitas is widely recognized as one of the early proponents of institutional vaccination in the country. As early as 2005, Affinitas was already at the forefront of promoting and conducting vaccination programs among the employees and dependents of its corporate clients. As a leading employee benefits partner and risk management consultant, Affinitas recognized and recommended the immediate and long term potential of immunization programs against vaccine-preventable diseases in helping manage the steadily rising utilization and healthcare costs of its clients.

By creating awareness and enabling employees with access to affordable vaccines, both Affinitas and Affinity believe that successful mass immunization programs will create a healthier workforce that is free from the burden of infectious diseases and, in the long run, contribute to the management of healthcare costs of our clients.

For more information about our Corporate Vaccination Programs, please email info@affinityhealthandwellness.com

Affinity Dental Clinics

Redefining the Standards of Dental Healthcare

Affinity Dental Network revolutionizes the traditional service delivery model of most networks in the country by investing in its own chain of dental clinics to provide our card members with guaranteed quality dental care services.

The objective of our bold decision to invest millions in establishing Affinity Dental Clinics is to radically change the prevailing and widespread negative perception of corporate card holders with regard to the quality of their dental care benefits.

With Affinity Dental Clinics, our card members are exclusively provided the same first class quality dental care services that our discriminating pool of private foreign and local patients enjoy.

When we established Affinity Dental, we did not spare any expense in ensuring that Affinity Dental will be synonymous to the finest name in dental care in the country. Our best in service, first in class philosophy guides us in every aspect or detail of our operations. Behind the facade of our first class modern Asian fusion interiors and state of the art equipment is our commitment to provide patients and card members with only the best dental care and finest service experience possible.

For more information, please visit www.affinitydentalclinics.com.

Affinity Network

Advocacy for Better Dental Care

Affinity Network is a leading and preferred provider of guaranteed dental care services and benefits in the Philippines. As a company dedicated to health and wellness, Affinity has been the most vocal and active advocate of making dental care better in the country.

While recent scientific studies and research have already established the relationship of dental and oral care to the general health and well-being of an individual, the state of dental and oral health among most Filipinos remain poor, neglected and ignored.

Through Affinity Network, and Affinity Dental, we hope to be able to:

• Provide the necessary leadership in the healthcare industry in order to pursue advancements in the quality and standards of the dental practice;
• Promote, protect and uplift the respect of Filipinos for the dental profession;
• Consolidate the support and participation of our accredited dentists in the Philippines in making Dental Care better among Filipinos;
• Provide every Filipino with access to quality yet affordable dental care;
• Lead the advocacy for dental care to be a critical, integral and inseparable component of the country’s healthcare system.

Our corporate dental care plans are designed to provide your employees with standard and/or customized dental care benefits and services depending on your company’s program. As a member of the Affinity Network, your employees will be able to avail of and access their benefits through our network of accredited dentists and through Affinity Dental.

Affinity Corporate Dental Care Program

Affinity is the largest network of dental care providers in the Philippines with over 950 accredited dentists in over 700 dental clinics in the country. Likewise, Affinity is the first and only dental network in the country to invest millions in establishing our own chain of dental care facilities that are designed to provide our members with access to guaranteed benefits, quality services, exclusive privileges and discounts.

Currently, Affinity Dental Clinics are already serving members in key strategic centers in Makati, Alabang, Cavite, Cebu and Bacolod. Plans are also on the way for the establishment of more dental care centers in Ortigas, Quezon City, Ilo-ilo and Davao.

Affinity Dental Clinic Management Program

Affinity Network is the only dedicated and fully operational dental healthcare company in the country with the necessary expertise, management experience, nationwide network of dental professionals, support infrastructures and allied resources, that can provide corporate clients with a dental clinic management program that involves or requires all or any of the following services:

- Professional Operations of Company Dental Clinics
- Deployment of Retainer Dentists and/or Assistants
- Provision of Dental Supplies and Materials
- Installation and Maintenance of Dental Chairs and Equipment

Affinity Dental Care Third Party Administration (TPA)

Affinity Network, likewise, provides Third Party Administration (TPA) services to companies that are more interested in self-administered or self-funded dental care services program.

The Affinity Network TPA Dental Care Services program is a flexible company or client funded dental care program that is managed with the expertise and infrastructure of Affinity Network. Depending on the client’s requirements, Affinity Network can administer their dental care benefits on:

1. Reimbursement Basis
2. Open Network Basis
3. Preferred Network Basis

For more information on Affinity Network, please email info@affinityhealthandwellness.com.

Affinity Health and Wellness

About Us

Affinity Health and Wellness revolutionizes the way companies and individuals define and manage health care.

By extending the health care value chain to include often neglected, yet equally important areas, such as quality dental care and preventive vaccination, we are able to provide health care programs and products that are not only cost-effective long term, but also transform employee health benefit programs from one that is focused on disease management and life preservation, to one that aspires for disease prevention and life enhancement.

With the rising pressures and perils of modern life, and the rising health care costs that accompany it, it is absolutely necessary that we change our health care management system to include wellness concepts and disease-preventive measures.

It is equally necessary that we change the delivery of these health and wellness products, by using the place of work as the primary distribution channel, so that the delivery of such is not only accessible, it is mandatory.

Our Mission and Vision

Mission

Our corporate mission is to make Affinity, our corporate clients, and their employees, EQUAL PARTNERS in achieving health and wellness.

Vision

The vision of Affinity is to revolutionize employee health management in the Philippines, by making disease-preventive health and wellness solutions an integral and mandatory part, thereby raising the standard of living of all Affinity constituents.

Our Advocacy, Our Mission

What this ambition requires first and foremost is a revolutionary change in everyone’s way of thinking. A change in the way individuals exercise accountability for their own health and well-being, and a change in the way employers approach health care management.

Today’s employee health care programs focus on treating the disease rather than preventing them, neglecting important aspects of health care, as well as health and wellness advocacy. So we asked, what is being done to change the health care system? In trying to answer this question, we not only found an opportunity; we found our advocacy.

There has been a lot of noise around holistic and integrated health and wellness programs, but they have been scattered, hard to grasp, inaccessible and more importantly, their costs have been prohibitive to the majority of people. In addition, no one has made it their task to professionalize these efforts and devise a system to make such programs affordable.

It is this gap that is preventing health and wellness practices from being ingrained and entrenched into the individual and collective consciousness. And it is this gap that Affinity Health and Wellness aims to fill.

This is a huge and ambitious project and there’s a lot of work to do. Health and wellness as a concept and practice is still in its infancy stage in the Philippines. This is a movement that we hope to begin. The general principles of care for oneself and wellbeing affect you on an individual basis, and effect change on a larger, community scale.

Affinity Health and Wellness aims to be the pioneer in affecting you and effecting change. This is our mission.

The New Direction of Health and Wellness: A Collaborative Approach

Health and Wellness is a concept that is certainly wide in scope and still in its infancy stage here in the Philippines. It is yet to be understood, grasped and experienced in practical, meaningful ways by a much bigger audience.

As such, we have made it our advocacy to not only professionalize health and wellness programs, but to bring together scattered and disparate efforts by different groups, into one concrete whole, and be the conduit for these efforts to reach a mass market, thereby creating consciousness.

We have partnered with several groups who promote health care, both traditional and non-traditional, from pharmaceutical companies and dental professionals, to nutritionists, alternative healing experts and yogis.

We want to collect the resources of all these groups and put them into action through Affinity. The uniting principle is our conviction that proactive health and wellness practices can enhance the lives of everyone, from healthy individuals to cancer patients, from your employees to their community of loved ones.

In the end, we are working to extend such health and wellness techniques to a range of day to day practical exercises, and to a wider audience.

We tout the benefits of office-based programs, particularly to reach what we feel are “underserved” individuals, or individuals who ordinarily don’t get access because of prohibitive costs of such programs and products.

Health and Wellness in the Workplace

What distinguishes Affinity Health and Wellness from its peers is that we use the workplace as the primary distribution channel for our products and solutions. Through this unique business model, we are able to achieve a number of things.

Benefit to Employers

First, we are able to augment our corporate clients’ Employee Benefit Programs, so that they are more valuable to employees. This fosters a stronger feeling of affinity between the employees and their employers.

Second, because our health and wellness programs seek to challenge the definition of health care from merely being curative, to being preventive, we are able to help corporate clients control and slow the rapidly increasing costs of health care.

Benefit to Your Employees

Third, by partnering with our corporate clients to design cost-efficient ways of administering health and wellness programs, we are able to achieve economies of scale and give employees access to cheaper health and wellness products which would ordinarily be cost-prohibitive.

Finally, by promoting health and wellness thru the workplace, we are able to more successfully entrench these beneficial practices into the daily lives of more individuals. By giving your employees innovative ways of caring for their health, we are encouraging them to be more accountable and proactive in caring for their own wellbeing and that of their families, thus creating a community of healthy, balanced, productive and happy individuals.

Please visit: www.affinityhealthandwellness.com