The Advanced Health and Vitality Center: Comprehensive Care in IV Therapy

The trend for natural infusion or drip centers continues to grow nationally. As it does, one center in Minnesota, just 70 miles north of the world-famous Mayo Clinic, stands out as one of the best-trained, most experienced and trusted of these facilities nationwide. That site, known as the Advanced Health and Vitality Center (AHV) in Bloomington, Minnesota, offers its patients highly individualized care and treatment under the direct medical supervision of double board-certified medical doctor, Alyse Hamilton, MD. Beyond its unique IV center, AHV is also one of the best trained and most trusted sites for bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT), thyroid and adrenal gland balancing and immune system issues for both men and women.

A Unique and Dedicated Approach

Many drip centers tend to focus on ‘hydrations’ and so-called ‘hangover drips.’ While these basic services are available at AHV, many patients present with very serious health issues such as late-stage cancers, advanced Lyme disease, fibromyalgia, chronic infections and fatigue. Those individuals are carefully screened in a no-fee phone call. This pre-assessment process makes each new patient aware of the possibilities offered by AHV. The call also addresses each new patient’s initial questions.

Serious medical issues are then supervised by the medical director, who is always on-site to ensure the safest, most effective care and treatments are offered and medically monitored.

A Solid Foundation of Medical Professionals, Products and Protocols

One major factor that sets the AHV apart from other sites is its firm foundation in three important values—an uncompromising requirement that the center’s professional personnel, products and protocols administered meet the highest quality standards of excellence in healthcare.

People

Onsite medical director Hamilton is board certified in both internal medicine as well as integrative metabolic medicine. She brings a long track record of excellence in internal, emergency and integrative metabolic medicine. She and members of her clinical staff were also trained at the world-famous Riordan Clinic in high-dose IV vitamin C and many other natural infusion therapies.

The AHV center’s registered nurses are dedicated infusion nurses who are highly skilled in working with all types of infusion lines and supplies.

The center’s director is trained in natural medicine and undertakes much of the center’s constant research into new and better-proven methods.

Products Used

Only the safest injectable vitamins, minerals and other natural substances are used in the center’s infusions. Unlike other sites that may be franchised, AHV carefully selects its compounding pharmacy providers based on their safety records and sourcing of their products. For example, the center’s staff was personally trained in IV alpha lipoic acid (ALA) by a world expert, the late Burton Berkson, MD. He clearly advised the center that only two safe countries could source ALA. The center uses only vitamin C sourced from the cassava plant and goes through major sterility testing.

Protocols Administered

Unlike some sites that may simply follow an online protocol, the AHV staff have been personally trained by true experts in the infusion therapy world. The list of personal instructors includes Thomas Levy, MD, JD, Frank Shallenberger, MD, HMD, Robert Rowan, MD and many others.

“There is no one-size-fits-all IV at AHV’s center. It was noted that even identical twins with the same diagnosis may require different doses of the same natural infusion,” says Hamilton.

Safety, effectiveness and reasonableness are the watchwords of every infusion administered.

The Difference

The clear difference that makes the AHV Center a truly outstanding drip medical facility is the entire staff’s dedication to safety, effectiveness and ongoing excellence.

The center’s director, Michael Boxenbaum, says, “Coupled with medical supervision always onsite, individualized treatments and a highly trained and skilled clinical staff, there is also a constant pursuit for new and better safe ways to deliver care. As a dedicated and highly specialized medical facility, we understand that we may not be for everyone, but those who come to us receive unparalleled care and attention.”