Infusion Solutions

Infusion Solutions Located conveniently in Richmond VA. Offering medical infusions in luxury private suites.

All at a fraction of what you would pay for in most hospital based settings.

03/13/2023

Serenity with Evenity…this is a tale about osteoporosis, inspired by a conversation with one of our patients.

Osteoporosis weakens bones. Weaker bones break easier. Broken bones alter lives, especially for those 65 and older. And here’s a scary stat: 1 in 2 women over the age of 50 will break a bone due to osteoporosis in their lifetime. That bears repeating: half of all ladies over 50 will break a bone due to osteoporosis at some point. Osteoporosis cannot be cured, but it can be mitigated.

Osteoporosis has very few symptoms, and sadly far too many patients are diagnosed with osteoporosis only after they have fallen and broken bones. The most common diagnostic tool is the DXA (dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry) test. It is fast, painless, and noninvasive. It is recommended that all females over the age of 65 as well as younger post-menopausal females with risk factors be tested for osteoporosis. Though osteoporosis screening of males is not deemed necessary to date, it is alarming that 20% of all Americans with osteoporosis are men.

There are several treatments for osteoporosis, including weekly oral medications such as Fosamax and annual infusions such as Reclast or Prolia. These medications aim to prevent further bone weakening.

There is a newer class of treatments that actually strengthens bones. Talk about cool! The most common of these medications is a drug called Evenity that takes about an hour to infuse. It is given once a month for a year. Anecdotally, I have seen several patients continue with Prolia after their Evenity to maintain their strengthened bones.

At Infusion Solutions, we care for many, many patients with osteoporosis. It’s important. Broken bones change the trajectories of people and their families every day to the tune of over 2,000,000 broken bones every year in the United States alone. I know from family experience that all it takes is one fall to change the course of a person’s final years.

Back to our patient…she is receiving Evenity infusions to strengthen her bones. Doing so reduces the risk that a fall will alter the trajectory of the rest of her life. She is finding serenity with Evenity - I don’t know if that is an Evenity tagline or not, but it popped in my head, and I like it.

Today’s treatments mitigate the impact of osteoporosis. Talk about osteoporosis with your doctors, older friends, and family. Get screened. Get older friends and family screened.

We can make a difference, one loved one at a time.

11/21/2022

I teared up twice last week. The first time I was talking with a patient who shared the difference Infusion Solutions had made in her life. She recounted years of subpar experiences at other infusion places and how she always felt like a number. She then told me how wonderful "her Infusion Solutions" family was and how special we made her feel. Like so many patients, she reaffirmed what we promise: a better infusion experience.

The second time the tears fell was after talking with a brave 12-year old girl and her father. Life has thrown curveballs at her since birth, yet there she was getting an infusion with a big smile on her face. Her dad was so appreciative of the care and the caring my team gave her. Truth be told, she was the one caring for us and reinforcing our commitment to a better infusion experience not just for her, but for every patient we see.

I usually tear up only when someone loses a pet or during "Field of Dreams" (I know that's weird, but I can't help it). Infusion Solutions has changed that script. The happiness my Infusion Solutions team brings patients, and the happiness our patients bring us, make tears of joy and tears of gratitude a common occurrence.

It's the time of year to reflect on things we are thankful for. I am thankful for my partner and co-founder Annette Bennett, who shared my dream of creating a special haven for infusion patients. I am thankful for my team, who find happiness in making others happy and are a team in the very best sense of the word. I am thankful for the medical practices who have entrusted their patients with us; we embrace this opportunity to give your patients a better infusion experience. And I am so very thankful for our patients. Many of them do not realize that Long COVID has haunted me for two years now, nor do they realize just how recuperative and inspiring they have been for me. Our patients come for healing, yet they are the ones healing me. I am so grateful.

Happy Thanksgiving to one and all.

Lucien Roberts
Co-founder, Infusion Solutions, LLC

06/16/2022

Here's a little background into why Infusion Solutions came to be. As you'll see, we're founded by two amazing people who have a passion for serving others well. They have built a team of us who all share the same values.

Here's a post from our co-founder, Lucien Roberts.

Infusion Solutions – Chapter One
The story of Infusion Solutions is one of two people drawn together to make things better, not knowing what they were doing but knowing they needed to do something.
My co-founder, Annette Bennett, is one of the most driven people I have ever known…she problem solves to relax. She is passionate at helping others and finding ways around obstacles. She had never met an insurmountable obstacle until her brother Daniel was diagnosed with late-stage colon cancer in 2016 at the age of 35. His three-year fight became her inspiration.
Tragically, like too many others, Daniel lost his valiant battle. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men weren’t enough to save his life. With Annette by his side, Daniel sought the best care in the country, getting care in Virginia, Florida and seemingly everywhere in between.
Daniel got great care…but had not-so-great experiences. His infusions, whether for chemotherapy or iron, were delivered in large ‘sick bays’. He was separated from other patients by paper-thin curtains, with only a sterile metal tray as a companion. Privacy appeared to be an after-thought. Annette knew patients deserved better.
An aside: colon and re**al cancers are attacking younger people at a prevalence never seen before. Doctors don’t know why – it is perhaps a function of a more sedentary lifestyle and a processed food diet. What we do know is that someone born in the 1990s like my children is twice as likely to get colon cancer and four times as likely to get re**al cancer as someone like me born in the early 1960s. Read that last sentence again…it’s scary.
Getting a screening colonoscopy is the very best way to detect and remove colon and re**al polyps before they become cancers.
If you know someone in their 30s with a family history of colon or re**al cancer or polyps, encourage them to get a colonoscopy…please.
Everyone else should get a screening colonoscopy beginning at age 45…please. I don’t ask for much, but I make this simple request of every person reading this blog.
As Daniel was fighting his colon cancer, my dad was fighting his own battle with congestive heart failure, kidney disease, and everything else that comes with old age. Nobody wins the battle against old age, but Dad was determined. He wanted to be alive to care for Mom, his kids, and his grandkids.
On weekends, I would drive down to South Boston to be with him. I sat with him in hospitals, in skilled nursing, and in the end with hospice in his own bedroom. He was always cold, especially when he got an infusion or an IV. I would run up to the Walmart and get five dollar throws and electric blankets to ease his discomfort. They helped, especially the constant heat of the electric blanket.
Dad finally passed in August of 2020 at the age of 95. He was ready, at last, and we were blessed to have him die peacefully. He is in a better place, looking over us.
Although I have spent my career in healthcare, what struck me in Dad’s last year were two things: 1) the disconnect between his providers; and 2) the chill that he never seemed to shake. Like Annette, I knew patients deserved better.
Annette and I knew each other through our work – she as co-founder of Clinical Research Partners and me as chief administrator of Gastrointestinal Specialists – and we bonded as we talked during the last few months of Daniel’s and Dad’s lives. We wanted to do something to honor their memories that helped others. And so, the seeds that grew into Infusion Solutions were planted.
Annette believed infusion patients deserved a more private and caring experience. I believed infusion patients deserved heated chairs…no one has ever accused me of being complex. We talked and decided there were two other things infusion patients needed. First, there needed to be much better communication with referring providers and families. Second, there needed to be an affordable alternative to hospitals.
We decided to take some of our savings to start a dream. It was scary, but our motive wasn’t to make money. It was to give our community something our loved ones didn’t get. If we broke even or lost a little money, that was okay. Helping others was it, plain and simple.
The COVID pandemic did its best to derail our dream, but we stayed true to our vision. We even set up a second suite just to provide monoclonal antibodies to COVID patients. And because our focus again was on caring for others rather than turning a profit, we succeeded. The dollars didn’t matter as much as the sense it made. We helped others get the care Daniel and Dad didn’t always get.
That, my friends, is how Infusion Solutions came to be. I hope – and I believe – we have made Daniel and Dad proud.

06/14/2022

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