Where to Start

Where to Start A beginner’s guide to fillers and injectables

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New to fillers and injectables and don’t know where to start? Dr. Vijay, Dr. Cassidy

and the Corpus Christi Institute of Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery team invite you to schedule a consultation, especially if it’s your first experience with Botox or fillers. After careful observation, our doctors will recommend the best options for you. The highest standard of care and the best products ensure you get the results you desire.

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At Corpus Plastic Surgery, we offer a variety of fillers and injectables to correct shadows, remove wrinkles, add volume and reduce lines for a more youthful appearance. Our physicians have a reputation for their steady and light hand when injecting fillers and injectables. While other doctors delegate the injectable process to nurse staff, Drs. Vijay and Cassidy perform it themselves to ensure the best possible result.

Do’s and don’ts

What to expect?

Non-surgical procedures are wonderful because they typically require very little downtime and very little procedure time. These procedures range from the procedures performed by the doctors. Currently, we offer fillers such as Botox/ Dysport, Juvéderm and Restylane. There can be temporary redness and bruising, which usually lasts about 48 hours. The side effects of Botox are completely relasting only a few weeks.

Did you know?

It’s important to be aware of the safety information for Botox and fillers. Tell your aware of the safety information for Botox and fillers.

doctor if you are pregnant, lactating, breastfeeding, on blood thinners or under 18 years of age. The benefits of Botox usually last three to six months and then resolve. The benefits of filler injections usually last nine to 12 months.

versible; any side effects are temporary,

Always use a strong sunblock if you’re exposed to the sun (use SPF 30 or greater). If you wear makeup, make sure it has sun protection. Stay out of the sun until redness and bruising subsides (usually 48 hours). Avoid aspirin and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAISDs).

Follow-up care instructions

Make sure you follow-up one to two weeks after your first treatment to let us know if you are satisfied with your results or need to add additional product to your areas of concern. Remember to make an appointment every three to nine months or as instructed by our physicians to keep your results looking fresh and amazing.

Your provider is as important as the product

Our physicians want everyone considering Botox or fillers to enjoy the best possible results from their procedure. Remember to always look for reputable, board-certified physicians like Drs. Vijay and Cassidy, so you can be assured that you are receiving the highest-quality service and products.

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CLINT RENDALL isn’t your typical health care CEO.

He is the new leader at AAdi Home Health & Hospice in a time that has been anything but typical for the health care industry.

Over the years, his career has taken a number of interesting twists and turns, which led him to the Coastal Bend.

Rendall graduated from Rice University with a degree in chemical engineering, which led to a variety of project management roles in the natural gas industry. Later, he was accepted into a dual mechanical engineering/MBA program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, examining the operations, strategy and management challenges in health care. After spending his entire early career in large corporations, Rendall realized his passion was actually focused on small business. He was also interested in finding a role that had a direct, positive impact on the community around him. While searching for the perfect small-business health care opportunity, he discovered AAdi Home Health & Hospice right here in Corpus Christi.

“My wife and I were very interested in returning to South Texas, where we had spent the majority of our adult lives,” Rendall says. “I was fascinated with the home health industry, which I’d had very little exposure to prior to business school. MIT’s motto, mens et manus, translates to “mind and hand” in Latin, the idea that education should have a practical application. I couldn’t think of a better industry to apply that mentality than home health.”

At AAdi Home Health, the highly experienced and dedicated team provides home health, palliative care and hospice services for patients in the comfort of their own homes. Services include nursing, advanced wound care, home health aides, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and more. With each patient, AAdi’s professional staff goes above and beyond by providing the best health care while caring deeply about those they serve.

As it turns out, Rendall discovered the company at just the right opportunity. AAdi’s previous owners were looking to sell the business and retire after building it into a very well-respected, homegrown agency in the Coastal Bend. Last fall, Rendall was able to strike the right deal with the owners. “Our transaction last year kept AAdi family-owned and locally operated,” he added.

Rendall, his wife, Margeux, and their children, Gavin, Adelaide and Coralie, relocated to Corpus Christi and immediately fell in love with

the beach and all of the out door activities the area has to offer. They say they’ve “ found a long-term home.

But the afterglow would be short-lived. The handover of the company occurred in fall 2019, less than six months before the COVID-19 outbreak would change the health care landscape forever. Rendall says that, like every other small business nationwide, COVID-19 has been a game changer for AAdi. In the early days in March, the staff hurried to secure personal protective equipment

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We are all in this together.”

(PPE), just like all other health care providers. With a novel, unknown virus, Rendall says patients were understandably scared, and clinicians were concerned. Despite all of this, the AAdi team rose to the occasion, and continue their commitment to providing high-quality care to South Texas patients. “We quickly assembled a COVID-19 team of nurses who have become experts in infection control,” Rendall recalls. AAdi now procures PPE from a variety of sources and has been able to supply field staff with appropriate PPE for every single visit, ensuring the safety for both patients and employees.

In the time since, the AAdi team has successfully cared for dozens of COVID-19 patients and takes pride in being able to help free up hospital beds for those in greatest need of acute care. “As a whole, I feel our team overall is adapting very well to the changes and challenges posed by this pandemic,” says Oscar Limas, R.N., director of program operations at AAdi Home Health & Hospice. “Our staff quickly understood the importance and severity of the situation, and immediately implemented utilization of guidelines set forth by government, state, county and

city agencies.” AAdi’s main focus now is keeping employees and patients safe. All staff are required to wear a medical mask and goggles or face shield to every visit. Nurses who see patients don PPE outside patients’

homes and pre-screen every patient before seeing them.

AAdi has been growing steadily to meet the “ increasing demand for in-home health care.”

The entire company has adapted to the new normal brought on by the coronavirus through socially distancing, screening themselves before arriving to work and comforting one another when anxiety and stress set in, employees say.

“I learned that we are all in this together: caring for patients, caring for our staff, constantly educating ourselves on best practice and how to make a patient’s home as safe and as isolated as a hospital,” said Amanda Kiss, R.N., administrator of AAdi Home Health & Hospice.

Looking ahead, Rendall and his team believe the coronavirus is not going away any time soon. They remain vigilant in providing the utmost patient and employee safety.

“AAdi has been growing steadily to meet the increasing demand for in-home health care,” Rendall shares. “We expect that trend to continue, as studies in Italy and elsewhere have shown that a more distributed model of care (as opposed to centralized in a hospital or clinic) is safer and more effective for many patients during the pandemic. We also anticipate that our ramped-up infection control protocols will be necessary for the foreseeable future.”

In order to facilitate the safety of patients, physicians are now able to order home health for patients via telehealth visits. In addition, nurse practitioners and physician assistants can now write home health referrals for their patients. These commonsense changes to the regulations make it easier than ever for patients to receive the care they need in the home.

Rendall believes the COVID-19 outbreak should be a wake-up call to the American public, especially here in the Coastal Bend. By focusing on our health, taking the proper hygiene precautions and socially distancing, residents can better protect themselves and their loved ones – which in turn will take the burden off hospitals and create a healthier community.

“Americans as a whole must turn our focus toward eating healthy, exercising and preventive care visits,” he says. “Healthy habits established now will outlast the current pandemic, and will decrease our health care costs, improve mental health and lengthen our lives.”

To improve the fight against the virus, the AAdi team encourages South Texas residents to eat a healthy, balanced diet; exercise regularly; get adequate sleep; and remove life stressors that can affect mental health. Those measures, along with practicing good hand hygiene every day and wearing a facial covering when in public areas, can give South Texans a fighting chance against a virus unlike any the health care community has encountered before.

In the face of such uncertainty, the AAdi team continues their mission of providing quality, coordinated in-home care to residents of the Coastal Bend when they need them most.

“It takes a strong team to survive a year like the Coastal Bend has had, with the pandemic and hurricane,” Rendall says. “Amanda, Oscar and Kristy have done an amazing job of leading us through a difficult time – and I’m proud to be part of such an amazing team.”

Learn more about AAdi Home Health & Hospice by visiting www.aadihomehealth.com.

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Conviva continues to reinvent excellence in health care by embracing meaningful patient relationships focused on producing optimal health outcomes. With more than 90 convenient locations throughout Texas (Corpus Christi, El Paso and San Antonio) and Florida (Broward County, Daytona Beach, Jacksonville, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County and Tampa/Gulf Coast), the vast network of Conviva Care Centers is comprised of a multi-disciplinary team of more than 300 primary care physicians and over 800 affiliated specialists who provide a wide range of vital health care services that patients require daily, including the advantages of senior care activity centers and 24/7 on-call physicians. The success of Conviva is measured by its patients’ clinical outcomes and long-term health benefits.

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At every center, Conviva’s health care experts take all of the necessary safety precautions to provide proper care while reducing the risk of COVID-19. “Many senior patients live with multiple chronic conditions, so a primary focus is to safeguard their short- and long-term health,” Lee said. “We must stay healthy so they can remain healthy, and that calls for team members, doctors and nurses to take every precaution, adhere to CDC guidelines, wear protective equipment and sanitize centers daily.”

Telemedicine visits are also available to patients whose care does not require an in-person appointment. Conviva focuses on early screening and prevention, advances in technology and new surgical techniques to help seniors live longer, healthier lives. Its clinicians understand that heart issues, diabetes, emphysema, asthma and other chronic conditions require regular, closely monitored coordinated care.

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