Las Vegas Based Healthcare Company Moves Current Clinic in Reno, Nevada

Reno, NV - (August 8th, 2017) – The Well Care Group is moving on August 14th, 2017 from their current location at 790 Willow Street Reno, Nevada 89502 to 850 Mill Street Reno, Nevada 89502.  The Las Vegas based company expanded to Reno in 2016, and in less than one year the clinic has exceeded performance expectations and outgrown it’s current location. This exciting move will help to accommodate even more patients and allow the clinic to offer expanded and improved services.

Las Vegas Based Healthcare Company Offers Free Depression Screenings In September in Observance of Suicide Prevention Month Free Events All Month Long To Help The Mentally Ill and Homeless Population

Las Vegas, NV - (September 5th, 2017) – The Well Care Group is proud to offer FREE depression screenings every Friday in the month of September from 1p-3p at the Las Vegas Clinic in observance of Suicide Prevention Month. Suicide is the 6th leading cause of death for Nevadans. Males make up 80% of suicide deaths at an average rate of 33.3 per 100,000. Nevada seniors over 60 have the highest suicide rate in the nation, over double the national average for the same age group (Source: Department of Health and Human Services).

Las Vegas Based Healthcare Company Announces Lisa Leatham-Vancil, LCSW as Director of Therapy and Mobile Crisis Assessment Team (MCAT) to the Reno Clinic

Mrs. Leatham-Vancil's duties will include but not limited to fostering a clinical based practice and supervising the clinicians' that have direct contact with our clientele, supporting the practice physicians, and foster an excellent working relationship with all practice team members and the community. She will be responsible for recruiting, selecting, and training clinical staff. Mrs. Leatham-Vancil, LCSW will ensure practice growth through identifying, recommending, and implementing practice needs including: staffing, treatment modalities and programs that our facilities provide. She will be responsible for executing programs and meeting the needs of the client's as directed by the community, physicians and management as well as ensuring that the practice is running efficiently to keep patient satisfaction high.

Las Vegas Based Healthcare Company Announces Michael P. Casal, MD, FACOG, as Director and Supervising Physician for Women's Services in the Northern Nevada Behavioral Health Care and Family Clinic

Las Vegas, NV - (March 22nd, 2017) – The Well Care Group announces Michael P. Casal, MD, FACOG to their Behavioral Health Care and Family Practice in Reno, Nevada.Dr. Michael P. Casal’s duties will include overseeing clinic operations, as well as service patients in The Well Care Group’s Reno Nevada clinic. Dr. Casal brings not only experience and knowledge to the Reno clinic but also his passion for medicine. Dr. Casal is fluent in Spanish and Tagalog, allowing The Well Care clinic to service a wide variety of patients.

Las Vegas-Based Healthcare Company Announces Alexis N. Lyon-Claus as Clinic Administrator to The Reno Clinic

Las Vegas, NV - (February 23rd, 2017) –The Well Care Group announces Alexis N. Lyon-Claus to their Behavioral Health Care and Family Practice in Reno, Nevada. Mrs. Lyon-Claus duties will include but not limited to supervising and direct the work of employees in assigned practice, supporting the practice physicians, and foster an excellent working relationship with all practice team members.

Las Vegas based healthcare company launches new clinic in Reno

The Well Care Group announced the opening of their Behavioral Health Care and Family Practice in Reno.After a successful opening of their Las Vegas Behavioral Health Care and Family Practice in 2015 and another 8,000 square foot Medical and Behavioral Clinic in January 2016, they have now expanded their efforts to northern Nevada.

Homelessness and Mental Illness

When most Nevadans' think of the holidays, thoughts of joy, love and spending time with family comes to mind. This is the case for many of our state's population but not for all of our Nevada residents. For our homeless and mentally ill population, the holidays can be the most stressful time of the year. This is extremely stressful and troublesome for those who are homeless, and suffer from mental health.

AAG gives annual Asian American Community Awards

On Saturday, Sept. 24, the Asian American Group (AAG) presented Community Achievement Awards to 13 outstanding Las Vegas citizens.  This is the twelfth anniversary of the Gala Awards night.  The event, which was sold out with over 530 attendees, was held at the Treasure Island Hotel & Casino Grand Ballroom. Attendees wore traditional dress for their countries of origin or evening wear.  There were cocktails and a silent auction prior to the program, which included entertainment from India and China, the awards and dinner.

Well Care clinic aims to help defragment services offered as part of mental health care

Well Care Behavioral and Medical Clinic recently celebrated the opening of its newest location at 5412 Boulder Highway. In partnership with Amerigroup Nevada, a Medicaid-managed care organization with approximately 162,000 Clark County members, the 8,200-square-foot clinic offers wrap-around services aimed at breaking the cycle of despair experienced by people like Michael.

Well Care offers solutions to people struggling with economic and behavioral (substance and/or mental) challenges that impact their overall health. The goal of the new clinic is to “take a person from complete hopelessness back into community living,” said Well Care Services founder and president Marce Casal.

A Bet on Behavioral Health

“Psychiatrists are like unicorns in Las Vegas,” said Marce Casal, founder and president of the Well Care Group. Yet Casal has managed to find two of them, along with other health care professionals, to staff the new Well Care Behavioral and Medical Clinic located at Tropicana Avenue and Boulder Highway. Well Care has partnered with Amerigroup Nevada, a managed care organization, with approximately 162,000 members in Clark County, to reduce the fragmentation of care by providing wrap-around behavioral health services to members with behavioral and mental issues.

Amerigroup Nevada, Well Care Services Partner to Increase Access to Behavioral & Physical Care

Amerigroup Nevada and MedTrans LLC dba WELL CARE Services have partnered to offer Medicaid members with chronic health problems, tailored integrated healthcare services at WELL CARE Services’ new facility in Las Vegas. The services are available to adults, and include onsite face-to-face primary care and telehealth exams, housing coordination, transportation to community resources and social services as well as therapy for mental illness and medication management.

Gamble on house calls pays off for pharmacy

Before our company opened its first store, the No. 1 question we had to overcome was, “How does Well Care Pharmacy compete with the giant chain pharmacies?”

To tackle this challenge, we decided to focus our business model on free delivery service anywhere in Las Vegas or Henderson. Whether Well Care Pharmacy makes money on a transaction or not, we will deliver to anyone who needs the service.