Dr. Judith Reese giving a presentation to hearing aid dispensers in January.
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Want more brain power? Mind your hearing.
That’s the conclusion from researchers from the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, who found that mild hearing loss is linked to brain atrophy in older adults.
That’s the bad news. The good news is that early intervention could prevent a decline toward difficulties in understanding speech.
When hearing declines, gray matter atrophy accelerates in the auditory areas of the brain, making it increasingly difficult for older adults to successfully understand what is being said to them.
"As hearing ability declines with age, interventions such as hearing aids should be considered not only to improve hearing but to preserve the brain," said lead author Jonathan Peelle, PhD, research associate in the Department of Neurology. "People hear differently, and those with even moderate hearing loss may have to work harder to understand complex sentences."
Read more about this here:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110831115946.htm
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Students of the Month at Land O'Lakes High School received their awards for the year on May 26th at the school's annual end of year awards ceremony. The Student of the Month Award at Land O'Lakes High School is sponsored by JC Audiology.
In photo, from left to right: TJ Chamberlin, Emily Austin, Mimi Mubaidin, Lauren Lynch, Meghan Novotny, Ben Olson.
Congratulations!
In May 2011, a major chain of hearing aid dispensers declared bankruptcy after reporting operating losses of nearly $8 million last year. The figures provided in their bankruptcy filings show that they had a 6.4% decline in sales from 2009 to 2010. (Coincidentally, JC Audiology experienced a 6.3% INCREASE in sales during the same period).
The large chain was in turmoil before the bankruptcy filing. Its largest supplier of hearing aids, a manufacturer that also owned part of the retail chain, filed law suits claiming tens of millions of dollars were owed to it. The stock of the publicly traded retail hearing aid chain plummeted nearly 250% in one year’s time.
Operating any business in the midst of an economic recession is tough business, and it is only exacerbated when legal disputes roil the entire company’s operations. Large corporations often have unwieldy management structures, high employee turnover and complicated finance arrangements that can prove slow to respond to changing economic conditions, not to mention slow in responding personally to individual patients. Not so at JC Audiology.
Since JC Audiology opened its doors in 2005, personal patient care has been our priority. Patients see the same audiologist, Dr. Judith Reese, with every visit. It is a special point of pride that so many new patients come to us from existing patients who recommend their family and friends to JC Audiology.
In 2010, JC Audiology saw its 1,000th patient. Despite recent years of economic downturn, we have managed to grow our patient list and remain financially healthy every year we have been in business. We have no debt, and our ability to operate efficiently has allowed us to sell hearing aids at nearly 14% below what the national average is reported to be. We even invested in upgraded technological equipment last year to better serve each patient. Our business decisions are made not among a chain of corporate vice presidents, but between Dr. Reese and her husband, Charlie, (Listener in Chief), who has a Masters in Business Administration and years of experience in business as well as volunteer service experience on boards of directors for a number of local organizations. He’s served as president of the Central Pasco Chamber of Commerce and the local Habitat for Humanity affiliate, and Judith was recently recognized as Volunteer of the Month in The Laker for all her work with local charities. Our commitment to each patient and to our community is solid, and has held steady during economic and industry turmoil.
Thanks to our patients, and our dedicated employees, JC Audiology remains a center of stability in a tumultuous industry, providing exceptional patient service and competent business management in pursuit of our goal of being the leader in hearing health care.
Dr. Scott Paton of Paton Chiropractic & Sports Medicine, honored Dr. Judith Reese for her service in the community. The above image is the ad from The Laker newspaper, which mentions just a few of the organizations that Dr. Reese has supported and volunteered in the community.
In the latest issue of JC Audiology's newsletter, Hear & Now, our very own Maddie Coffey writes about how she is training her German Shepherd, Kona, to be a service dog. Click here to read our newsletter:
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Judith Reese (right) recieves her Paul Harris Fellow Award from Betty Burke and Roger Proffer, Monday November 29, 2010.
Dr. Judith Reese was honored on Monday, November 29th as the newest Paul Harris Fellow with the Rotary Club of Land O'Lakes, "in appreciation of tangible and significant assistance given for the furtherance of better understanding and friendly relations among peoples of the world."
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