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Uptick Newswire’s Stock Day Podcast Features Shawn Leon, Ethema Health Corporation CEO, To Discuss the New Facility in Florida and Their Unique Approach to Payer Groups
Uptick Newswire’s Stock Day Podcast Features Shawn Leon, Ethema Health Corporation CEO, To Discuss the New Facility in Florida and Their Unique Approach to Payer Groups.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nPHOENIX, Dec. 11, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Uptick Newswire Stock Day Podcast features Ethema Health Corporation (OTCQB: GRST) (\"Ethema\" \"GRST\" or the \"Company\"), a provider of healthcare services including addiction and mental health. Shawn Leon, President and CEO, talked with Stock Day’s Everett Jolly about a new chapter for the company.\n “We’ve been in the addiction treatment business for about 8 years now, we started in Canada and operated a Best in Class treatment facility in Canada. We wanted to expand into the US and in 2017 we sold the Canadian business and started the expansion into the US with a facility in Florida,” Leon said at the start of the interview. Jolly then asked about that facility in Florida. He mentioned it’s an 80 thousand sq. foot facility on over 8 acres with about 175 beds. Jolly asked Leon to bring listeners up to speed. Leon said they have been working on getting the facility since late 2017 and took possession in May of 2018. “We are now up and fully operating as of mid-October 2018. We have all levels of care, detox, intensive in-patient care, residential care, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient care and outpatient care,” explained Leon. “It’s been a tough process to get the facility open and to get the staff in place and get everything going we the way we want it, but we are there now and see a lot of great treatment days ahead of us.” Jolly then asked how the company finds their clientele. Leon explained they do something a bit different than most treatment facilities. He said most facilities advertise to the clients, but they have a more direct approach. “We go direct to the payer groups, for example the Union group that has a self-directed healthcare plan, we would deal directly with the Union or employer assistance programs that are part of an employer management of their healthcare.” He added, “We are primarily trying to get the groups to recognize us as leaders and Best in Class treatment providers with great value.” He went on to say they provide a high-quality and effective care at a good price. Jolly said he thinks the company is in the right space because of the opioid epidemic. Leon replied that because of the epidemic, there is a focus on the addiction treatment business in general. ...