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BENTLEY HEALTH CARE, Inc. is the newly created global health care company of Dr. Bernard Salick, the disease-state management visionary and former Chairman and CEO of Salick Health Care, Inc. Dr. Salick is highly acclaimed for his pioneering approach to quality, cost-effective, state-of-the-art outpatient diagnostic and treatment centers. He is credited with the development of innovative concepts that have fundamentally altered the way cancer care is delivered in the United States. He is also recognized as a leading expert in managed care and disease-state management.
As Senior HIV /AIDS Consultant, Dr. Ho will provide BENTLEY HEALTH CARE with strategic advice in the areas of practice guidelines, outcomes measurements, and treatment protocols which will be used in the development of a data base for capitated and other types of managed care products. He will head up the HIV /AIDS scientific advisory group that will advise Dr. Salick in the development of affiliated networks of basic science and clinical treatment centers throughout the world.
Upon announcing the affiliation, Dr. Salick stated, "I am very pleased that a physician and researcher of Dr. Ho's stature and accomplishments has decided to be a key member of the Bentley Health Care consulting team and will provide such a critical range of services."
Dr. Ho, whose ingenious combination anti-viral "cocktail" treatment has captured worldwide interest, has been performing landmark investigation of HIV infection since the mid-1980s. His research has produced a wealth of vital information on how HIV attacks and eventually overwhelms the immune system . His experimental work, alone and in cooperation with others, has expanded the frontiers of knowledge regarding HIV and AIDS and opened exciting new directions for treatment.
BENTLEY HEALTH CARE, Inc. is a Beverly Hills-based global health care company that will provide diagnostic and therapeutic services to patients with catastrophic illnesses requiring sophisticated long-term care in cancer, AIDS, kidney failure, and organ transplantation. It will also enter into negotiations with state, federal and local governments both here and in Europe in the areas of Medicare, Medicaid, Champas and other government health plans, Managed Care and the E.C. Nation Health Service. The company is dedicated to advancing the field of disease-state management, offering innovative and unique solutions to patients, physicians and payees seeking quality patient care and cost-effective disease-state program management.
CONTACT: Ron Wise of Bentley Health Care, 310-248-3300
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