Urgent Wellness
OUR TEAM
  1. Freya Spielberg, MD, MPH President
    Founder Freya Spielberg has 20 years of experience building multidisciplinary research efforts focused on interventions to improve health outcomes and patient satisfaction while lowering health care costs and diminishing health disparities.
  2. Aubrey Villalobos, MPH, MEd VP, Operations
    Aubrey Villalobos has ten years of experience directing national and local initiatives for cancer prevention and community health promotion.
  3. John Barabino, MBA VP, Business Development
    John Barabino is an experienced technology entrepreneur, innovator and impact investor with experience building and managing partnerships in both the private and non-profit sectors.
  4. Luigi Leblanc, MPH, CPHIT VP, Technology
    Luigi Leblanc is an engineer and public health professional with over 15 years of practice and research experience in health information technologies spanning from telehealth, to electronic health records and mobile health solutions.
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Our solution for a broken health care system
Urgent Wellness will turn medicine right side up by focusing on wellness as well as disease.  

Convenient community-placed, Community Health Worker (CHW) operated, telemedicine and medical vending machine kiosks, will improve the health of vulnerable populations while reducing health care costs. 

Urgent Wellness clinics will be placed in low-income housing projects, homeless shelters and community-based service organizations.
In the News

New Venture Competition Final Round

Urgent Wellness wins $5K and advances to George Washington University's New Venture Compeition Finals - Come watch our pitch on April 20, 2017
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Street Sense Highlights Urgent Wellness

Urgent Wellness staff are offering residents of Benning Terrace (Ward 7, Washington DC) assessments to take a Community Health Snap Shot of preventive, chronic and social service health care needs.  Urgent Wellness will use the results of these surveys to design needed onsite health care services to improve the health of the Benning Terrace Community.

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Mobile Health Education
Urgent Wellness will provide mobile health counseling and education for disease prevention and self-management​​
 
Telemedicine Acute Care
Community Health Workers will triage patients to telemedicine for acute urgent care, avoiding unnecessary  emergency room visits
Chronic Disease Management
Community Health Workers provide onsite health assessment and chronic disease management services
Prescription Vending
Onsite dispensing and delivery of common medications and health products directly to patients
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