Beata Drzazga is the founder and owner of the biggest all-Polish medical centres network Beta-Med SA specialising in providing the long-term care services.
BetaMed SA has been on the market for 15 years, employs approximately 3 thousand people and operates through 84 affiliates located in 11 provinces. The company she runs is the biggest medical firm in Poland providing home and inpatient care for the chronically ill and the elderly. It is an innovative firm which places emphasis on activation of the elderly, the top quality of medical care and empathy to others.
“I took – for safety reasons – unpaid leave from the hospital I worked in, and I founded my own company. I was encouraged, moreover, to do so by everyone – the nursing board and politicians. I started from the ozone therapy which is the set of treatments for persons with sight problems (after the treatment their sight was brighter and sharper). One year after, I signed the contract for the long-term care services. As a nurse, already from the very beginning I knew that my mission was to care for the ill – says Beata Drzazga.” The beginnings were not easy. I had to learn how to place offers to the National Health Fund (NFZ), get used to inspections and thousands of documents to be filled in. Obstinacy, passion … results” The firm renders the home care services covering long-term nursing care and mechanical ventilation for over 5 thousand patients within the framework of the contract with the National Health Fund. The inpatient care services are provided at the Clinic BetaMed Medical Active Care in Chorzów of which mission is to provide the complex medical assistance to patients of any age. Within the framework of BetaMed MAC the following facilities operate and services are available:
- Nursing Home (within the framework of the contract with the National Health Fund) – services in the scope of treatment, rehabilitation, nursing and psychotherapy, 24-hour medical care;
- Private daily and 24-hour stays – for the elderly and disabled who need emergency care and wish to spend time actively in the company of people in the similar stage of life;
- Rehabilitation for persons of any age (within the framework of the contract with the National Health Fund and on a commercial basis) – a wide range of rehabilitation treatments covering physiotherapy, kinesiotherapy, cryotherapy and hydrotherapy;
- Nursing Home for Children, Teenagers and Adults being Mechanically Ventilated (within the framework of the contract with the National Health Fund) – 24-hour stays for patients with respiratory failures who do not require hospitalisation in intensive care units but require a permanent respiratory therapy with the use of a respirator device;
- Nursing stays for patients being mechanically ventilated (commercial services) – stays with mechanical ventilation therapy and complex treatment, rehabilitation, nursing and health care services;
- Specialist clinics – commercial services rendered by specialists in cardiology, gynaecology, diabetology, laryngology, neurology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics and the imaging diagnostics laboratory (ultrasonography and X-ray);
In addition, the Clinic is a place where health and education-related meetings and workshops, and also theatrical performances, dancing parties and artistic performances addressed both to patients and local community are organised. In 2016, the medical centre BetaMed based in Chorzów opened its branch in Las Vegas – “Beta-Med International”. “For the time being I am getting familiar with the American market and its demand. I wonder whether I should focus on the home, social, specialist, nursing or rehabilitation care services, or all of them in one package” – explained Beata Drzazga who was honoured, for the first time anywhere in the world, the title of the “Business Ambassador of Nevada” for cooperation, merits and promoting the State of Nevada. Governor of Nevada Brian Sandoval justified that “Beata is a very sociable, smart person, and she can serve as a great model for other businesswomen. For this reason, we came to the conclusion that it would be really great if she agreed to become the business ambassador of Nevada. She is very precious to us”.
The firm “BetaMed International” which was established in Las Vegas is the product of cooperation within the framework of economic missions Poland–Nevada. “The cooperation between Beta-Med and firms operating in Nevada is very good, and I believe that it will remain like this” – says the Governor of Nevada, and he also stresses that there are some small-sized Polish entrepreneurs in Nevada who are doing quite well in the US. He stressed: “Beata could serve as an example to them, just like she can serve as an example in Poland”. Apart from the fact that Beata Drzazga is the owner of BetaMed, she is also the director of the US-Poland Chamber of Commerce of the State of Nevada in Poland. By acting on the international scene she helps Polish firms to establish contacts with firms based in Nevada. “I am a very happy person. I was waiting for this moment to show Nevada what I do here and how BetaMed – the first fruit of my mission – looks like, i.e. what I would like to do in future in Nevada” says Beata Drzazga. “Nevada established such a great relationship with Poland as no one in the entire world. We share the same values as hard working, pride of our own countries and a very close friendship” – says Brian Sandoval, Governor of Nevada.
President Beata Drzazga receiving the ENTREPRENEUR MAGNUS 2017 EXTRAORDINARY
ENTREPRENEUR award, which is handed by Secretary of State in the Ministry of Development
Andżelika Możdżanowska, President of the Chapter of Awards professor Elżbieta Mączyńska
and Janusz Cieślak, President of EBC Poland.
