OrthoSynetics is sponsoring a rider in this year's Wounded Heroes Foundation Motorcycle Ride from Chicago to Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington DC. The ride is a fundraiser and show of support for Wounded Heroes who have were injured serving our country in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Wounded Heroes Foundation provides support to severely injured men and women of our Armed Forces serving around the world. The Foundation helps meet the need of these service men and women as well as support their families by offering physical, emotional and financial support to the Wounded Heroes. The organization’s Web site describes its mission as “Filling in the gaps where needed, our job is paying a missing mortgage payment, purchasing a handicap accessible van, building or remodeling homes, securing a new mortgage at a lower interest rate, assembling and delivering care packages and even providing a recreational trip to enhance a Heroes' recovery. These efforts are mere gestures compared to their service. We try to Insure their American Dream because they have Ensured ours.”

Please visit the Wounded Heroes Foundation Web site at www.woundedheroesfund.net to see how OSI’s support has and will continue to be utilized.

During the past few months, we have kept you updated on our progress in attracting new doctors to OrthoSynetics - as well as re-signing doctors who had previously been with the company.

Today, I’m pleased to announce that this progress continues as David Ward just signed yet another new doctor to the company. Our sales team is rolling! They have signed three new doctors since the recruiting open house, with several more pending.

Adding to this good news ... I would also like to announce that Dr. Jan Simon is returning to the company. Jan has two large practices located in south Florida and he is very excited to return to the company.

During the past month alone we have had 12 practices return to the company.

These are very exciting times for OrthoSynetics and we continue to build momentum.

To all of our new doctors - welcome to the team.

To all the doctors who are re-joining the company - welcome back.

To our existing OrthoSynetics doctors - we’re honored to have the opportunity to work with you and your staff to grow your practices, improve efficiencies and make you as profitable and prosperous as possible.

The hard work of everyone on our team is making this success possible.

Success is a team sport.

Thank you.

Last week OSI held its annual Hot Dog luncheon to raise money for the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life. Every year OrthoSynetics employee Shawn Caballero organizes a Hot Dog luncheon to raise money for the Relay for life. This year’s luncheon was another success bringing in more than $350 dollars from the OrthoSynetics team for the American Cancer Society. In addition Shawn sells candy in the OrthoSynetics kitchen to raise money for charity year round. This raises another $75-80 a month. All told Shawn personally raises around $3,000 a year for the Relay for Life.

OrthoSynetics wants you to play to win at our AAO booth, #920.

Take a break from the show, try your hand at Wii golf, and you may walk away with the GRAND PRIZE: a new set of golf clubs and other special prizes.

OrthoSynetics invites you to play with champions at the AAO.

We look forward to seeing you at the AAO…visit us at BOOTH #920, play a hole of Wii golf and let us show you how to drive starts!

Stay tuned for more information…

OrthoSynetics is pleased to announce that the company has settled its litigation against Dr. Nigel Grandison who has returned to the company as an affiliated doctor having entered into a new Practice Services Agreement.

Dr. Grandison is a pediatric dentist with three practices located in south Florida.

This is a very positive development for both parties and we look forward to settling disputes with other litigating doctors in the near future.

Welcome back to the team, Dr. Grandison!

As an update to our earlier post on the success of our new doctor Open House, we're pleased to announce that we have signed yet another new doctor to the team.

We're pleased at this continued growth, we'll keep you updated on our progress.

On behalf of the entire greater New Orleans community, we would like to give special thanks to Marla Lovinggood - wife and office manager of Dr Thomas Lovinggood of Olathe, KS - who is in town with fellow members of her church, working on housing projects to repair Katrina damage.

It’s hard to believe, but many portions of the New Orleans still haven’t fully recovered from Katrina. The areas in which Marla is working are high in crime and poverty stricken. Adding insult to injury, many people in these areas also were victims of scam contract labor where contractors stole money from unsuspecting homeowners and builders.

Marla is in charge of the coordination of these projects, and her group spent much of the past week delivering tools and preparing bag lunches to those in need. They even spent some time tuning pianos at local churches. Please see the pictures accompanying this post.

Thank you to Marla and all those who are helping to rebuild the Gulf Region.

And thank you to all members of the OrthoSynetics team who give of their time and money to serve the community. Here at OrthoSynetics, we have formed a new Community Relations committee, designed to help local organizations and community activities in need. If you are interested in finding out more about the committee, please email Angela Weber at aweber@orthosynetics.com

Here are some photos from Marla's project:

OrthoSynetics continues our transformation - aggressively working to grow the company. This first phase of our transformation was focused on service delivery, re-launching our brand, bolstering our leadership team and building our infrastructure.

We focused on improving our customer service delivery to our doctors and their practices, enhanced our industry leading one-stop service package, and helped our doctor’s practices grow. Our early success we facilitated by the support and feed back of our existing doctors and staff to help guide our efforts - thank you all.

All those successes were part of Phase 1. You’ll be pleased to know that we have entered Phase 2: growing the company.

Back in January, we reported that we had signed eight new doctors to the organization.

This past week, we held an Open House in Metairie for eight doctors who have an interest in joining our team. Early results are positive, as we already have signed one new doctor and are on our way to signing several more.

These new doctors are further evidence that our company is growing. In addition, some doctors are adding new practices, we are finding new associates for existing doctors, and our recent post showed that another doctor - Hector Bush - has rejoined OrthoSynetics.

We will continue to update you on our progress.

OrthoSynetics is pleased to announce that the company has settled its litigation against Dr. Hector Bush who has returned to the company as an affiliated doctor having entered into a new Practice Services Agreement. This is a very positive development for both parties and we look forward to settling disputes with other litigating doctors in the near future.