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Our Mission is to Help You Feel Your Very Best - Through All of Life's Changes

Since 1982, Women's Health America, Madison Pharmacy Associates, Inc. has provided women, men, and health care providers with a complete program for optimal health. Our products and services are based on four basic principles:

  1. Education enables people to make informed choices
  2. Good health starts with self-care, which includes lifestyle, outlook, exercise, diet, and specially formulated nutritional supplementation
  3. Testing helps you understand your unique health needs and is essential for monitoring the results of prescriptive and non-prescriptive intervention.
  4. When self-care is not enough, prescriptive care should be customized for each individual using low-dose, natural (natural) hormones.

Women's Health America Products and Services

Education:

Women's Health America provides the most current women's health care information through website articles, online mini-courses, a monthly electronic newsletter, and periodic Health Flash news releases. Marla Ahlgrimm, R.Ph., is available to answer specific questions online at Ask Marla. Our Health Library has many articles of interest and our Book Store carries recommended books, including The HRT Solution and Self-Help for Premenstrual Syndrome, co-authored by our founder Marla Ahlgrimm, R.Ph.

Self-Care Formulations:

Good health starts with self-care. We offer two proprietary therapeutic ProCycle® nutritional formulas for women concerned with symptoms of PMS and menopause. Our Restore® BioBalance line is specially designed for balancing hormones, promoting a healthier body, and easing the aging process. We also offer a full line of nutritional supplements and other products to support optimal health.

Restore® Testing and Screening:

Our full-service laboratory performs testing processes in-house, from measuring baseline hormone levels to assessing rate of bone loss using the sensitive NTx test. Results are returned within 14 days via mail or email.

Custom, Individually Compunded Prescriptions:

Our specialized pharmacy can fill any prescription including oral capsules, sublingual tablets, topical gels and creams, and patches. We specialize in customized, low-dose hormone therapy using only natural (natural) hormones. Women's Health America is the only compounding pharmacy in America that tests each prescription using sensitive HPLC (liquid chromatography) to eliminate over- or under-dosing.

Restore® Patient Management and Monitoring:

Our innovative Restore® program brings together a team of registered nurses, health educator, and registered pharmacists to work with you and your health care provider in monitoring and successfully managing even the most challenging cases of hormone imbalance.

Customer Service And Restore® Health Education:

Expert Customer Service Representatives and Restore® Health Educators are available to answer your questions and take your order. No question is too big or too small--we'll always help you find the answer.

Membership:

Women's Health America's Circle of Friends membership has its benefits! For just $29.95 annually, our members receive complimentary products and educational publications and enjoy a 20% discount on most prescriptions and over-the-counter products.

Our 100% Satisfcation Guarantee:

If you are not completely satisfied with your product experience, send us the remaining unused portion of any over-the-counter product within 60 days of purchase and we will refund your money in full - no questions asked. (25% restocking fee on any returned test kit.)

Meet Us

Marla Ahlgrimm, R.Ph. - Women’s Health America and Madison Pharmacy Associates Founder and CEO - Marla has made educating women about health care options her personal mission. An acknowledged women’s health expert and healthcare provider, she was the first in the country to recognize and develop low-dose natural hormone options for treating Premenstrual Syndrome in the 1970s. Since then, she has built her career around serving the unique and complex health needs of women through access to accurate information and quality health products. She holds a degree in pharmacy from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She co-authored two women’s health books: The HRT Solution and Self-Help for Premenstrual Syndrome.

Ryan Perry, CCNP - Technology Guru - Ryan has worked in the technology field for over 10 years. He came to Women's Health with the vision of both advancing and simplifying the process of customized therapy. Today we have RestoreDirect, our revolutionary system for hormone management.

Judy Rapp, R.Ph. - Director of Pharmacy, NAMS Menopause Practitioner - Judy has over 25 years experience managing pharmacies. She joined the Madison Pharmacy Associates staff in 2001. In addition to being a registered pharmacist, Judy is trained as a menopause practitioner through the North American Menopause Society. NAMS menopause practitioners are certified to have a broad-based knowledge in women’s health during menopause and beyond. She also teaches future pharmacists as a clinical instructor at the University of Wisconsin Pharmacy School.

Kali Adyn Reid, RN - Restore® Clinical Services Manager, NAMS Menopause Practitioner - Kali is a NAMS certified menopause practitioner and has done extensive study on hormone therapy. She received her nursing diploma from the Mercy Medical Center School of Nursing in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. After 10 years working in the psychiatric field, she became involved in utilization review/case management for Wisconsin insurance companies. She is also experienced in telephone triage, case management and leading the Restore® Clinical Services healthcare team.

Thomas Hart - Madison BioDiagnostics Laboratory Director - Tom is a research chemist who has an extensive background in the analytical chemistry field including inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy (ICP and ICP-MS) chromatography, atomic absorption, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR), clinical chemistry and immunoassay development. He joined Madison BioDiagnostics in 2000 as the principal researcher in hormone and bone resorption. Tom has laboratory accreditation (with distinction) with the College of American Pathologists and the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment.

Nicole Feltz, PharmD - Pharmacist - Nicole’s interest in clinical/patient care is a perfect fit with her role as the MPA pharmacist who works closely with the Restore® case managers and the patients they serve. She received her pharmacy degree from the Chicago College of Pharmacy of Midwestern University and joined the MPA staff in 2006.

Richard M. Erickson, R.Ph. - Pharmacist - Rick specializes in prescription formulation development and quality assurance procedures for Madison Pharmacy Associates. He received his training from the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy. He worked for several Wisconsin pharmacies before leaving the field to work in industrial research and development and quality consulting. Rick returned to pharmacy work when he joined Madison Pharmacy Associates in 1998. He is a member of the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin and American Society for Quality.

 
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Women's Health America, Inc.
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1289 Deming Way • Madison, WI 53717 • Phone: 800-558-7046 • Fax: 888-898-7412
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