Re: ACCESSIBLE RABIES EXPERTISE AND PREVENTIVE SERVICES
Patients with potential rabies exposure from animal contact are often frustrated in getting correct information on what to do and then on where to do it. Apparently, the sites prepared to give such services real-time are few in Harris County, as well as adjacent counties. Patients are relieved when they find us by our websites (see our rabies action guidelines at the rensimer.com site) or are referred here by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Ga and/or Harris County Animal Control. They present to a hospital Emergency Department, to an urgent care center, or call their PCP for direction on where to have animal bites/exposures evaluated. They often come away with no clear idea on where to access or to continue rabies preventive services. Our solution to this gap in our local healthcare system,
1. Our specialties: Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Travel Medicine
2. Easy access: I-10, 1 mile east of Beltway 8,
Spring Valley Medical Plaza Building
9230 Katy Freeway, Suite 400,
Houston, Texas, 77055
3. Human rabies immunoglobulin (HRIG), rabies vaccine on-site inventory: real-time, in-house
4. Expertise: handle multiple rabies-exposed patients daily; several hundred per year
5. Same-day insurance approval by staff skilled in these specific insurance benefit issues (and patient responsibility)
6. Comprehensive informed consent and informational forms (rapid patient education)
7. Website content focused on a practical action plan for exposed individuals
Our rabies exposure services model translates to an unparalleled experience of efficiency, effectiveness, professionalism, and patient satisfaction.
Our websites are rensimer.com and traveldoc.com
Edward R. Rensimer, MD Director