ivpcare and Extend Fertility Announce Exclusive
Partnership to Deliver Enhanced Customer Service and Support
Nationwide, Specialty Pharmacy Service gives Extend Fertility Clients a Consistently High Quality of Service
Frisco, TEXAS June 2, 2005 - ivpcare®, a specialty pharmacy, and Extend Fertility™, a key provider of fertility preservation technologies and services, have announced a new exclusive partnership designed to provide specialty pharmacy services and enhanced customer service to Extend Fertility clients.
Extend Fertility’s service allows a broad range of women to proactively plan for the future - just as they plan for personal and professional development - by freezing and storing their young, healthy eggs for the time when they are ready to start their families. Through partnerships with local medical providers, Extend Fertility offers a nationwide network of clinics where women can go to have their eggs harvested and preserved. The company has also formed strategic relationships, like that with ivpcare, to support its overall commitment to a consistent quality of service and its customers. As part of this effort, Extend Fertility will work with ivpcare to offer specialty pharmacy services and enhanced client support.
ivpcare is a leading specialty pharmacy offering pharmacy services and distribution of pharmaceuticals developed for fertility treatments to patients and physicians. Under the terms of this agreement, Extend Fertility and their affiliate centers will encourage their patients to choose ivpcare in order to take advantage of a range of services, including:
- Access to ivpcare’s knowledgeable pharmacists and nurses, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- A comprehensive product line of fertility medications
- Client education materials, including an injection training program
- A customized Extend Fertility CycleKit™ which includes Extend Fertility literature as well as injection supplies at no charge
- Nationwide delivery of supplies and materials
Extend Fertility currently offers its service to women at seven Extend-affiliated clinics throughout the US. For more information on the Extend Fertility egg-preservation service, please visit www.extendfertility.com or call (800) 841-7197.
For more information on ivpcare, please call (800) 424-9002.
About Extend Fertility Inc.
Extend Fertility is dedicated to enriching women's lives through revolutionary science and service that can effectively slow down a woman's biological clock. By capturing a woman's healthy "young" eggs and cryopreserving them for use in the future, Extend can give each client the best chance scientifically possible at achieving her dream of biological motherhood later in life. Extend Fertility's services are delivered through their network of leading fertility centers across the country. Centers are nominated, approved and trained by Extend's Scientific and Medical Advisory Boards, which are comprised of experts in the field of egg freezing.
About ivpcare
ivpcare is the largest privately held national specialty pharmacy offering
clinical services and distribution of pharmaceuticals developed for chronic
therapeutic indications. ivpcare provides comprehensive programs for
patients, physicians, payors and pharmaceutical manufacturers for a growing
number of disease states including hepatitis C, infertility, rheumatoid
arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Crohn's disease and others. Headquartered in
Frisco, Texas, ivpcare has distribution facilities there, as well as in
Torrance, Calif., St. Louis, Mo., and Wilmington, Mass.
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