When she was growing up in Aurora, Colorado, Andrea Pennington always told people she would take over her mother’s medical practice one day. After graduating with honors from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and training in pediatrics at Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown University Hospital, she has done more than that. Today Andrea and her morn, Abigail Pennington, M.D., are partners in the three-year-old Silver Spring, Maryland, Pennington Institute for Health & Wellness. The 6,000-square-foot facility, with a staff of 13, earned revenues of $350,000 in 2003 by providing a blend of traditional medicine with acupuncture, fitness, nutritional consultations, antiaging solutions and motivational support.
Founder and president Andrea Pennington (above, left, with her room) is today a nationally recognized wellness expert who has appeared twice on the Oprah show and was a medical director and correspondent for the Discovery Health Network. She is also the author of The Pennington Plan: 5 Simple Steps to Vibrant Health, Emotional Wellbeing and Spiritual Growth.
Realizing the Vision: “I did my homework, and with personal savings and an airtight business plan, I was approved for a bank loan and financing in record time to cover the half-million-dollar start-up costs of renovation, equipment, furnishing and advertising. In our first nine months, I juggled a full patient load and 80-hour workweeks, and hosted two national television shows.”
Putting Patients at Ease: “We designed the facility like a spa so patients wouldn’t feel as if they were in a doctor’s office. Our 12-week Life Transformation Makeover is an intensive program of psychotherapy, physical fitness, acupuncture and beauty makeovers. We accept most insurance plans and offer incentives to patients with perfect attendance.”
Changing Lives: “One of our biggest success stories was a man who weighed 525 pounds and wanted a weight-loss solution without surgery. Within five months he lost 140 pounds and the need for several diabetes medications. Our trademark motto is: It’s your life, embrace it.”
Founder and president Andrea Pennington (above, left, with her room) is today a nationally recognized wellness expert who has appeared twice on the Oprah show and was a medical director and correspondent for the Discovery Health Network. She is also the author of The Pennington Plan: 5 Simple Steps to Vibrant Health, Emotional Wellbeing and Spiritual Growth.
Realizing the Vision: “I did my homework, and with personal savings and an airtight business plan, I was approved for a bank loan and financing in record time to cover the half-million-dollar start-up costs of renovation, equipment, furnishing and advertising. In our first nine months, I juggled a full patient load and 80-hour workweeks, and hosted two national television shows.”
Putting Patients at Ease: “We designed the facility like a spa so patients wouldn’t feel as if they were in a doctor’s office. Our 12-week Life Transformation Makeover is an intensive program of psychotherapy, physical fitness, acupuncture and beauty makeovers. We accept most insurance plans and offer incentives to patients with perfect attendance.”
Changing Lives: “One of our biggest success stories was a man who weighed 525 pounds and wanted a weight-loss solution without surgery. Within five months he lost 140 pounds and the need for several diabetes medications. Our trademark motto is: It’s your life, embrace it.”
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