Doctors On Demand

Doctor’s house call gets Uber-like update thanks to this Dallas innovator

With Dallas-based Mend, the doctor comes to you.

Just about anything imaginable can be delivered to your door through the use of an app, so why not medical care? Enter Mend, Dallas’ own on-demand urgent medical care service that comes to your home, office, or hotel when you’ve got the flu, a cold, or any ailment that makes getting out of bed and traveling to the doctor a pain.

“We wanted to reintroduce the old-fashioned house call with an Uber-like twist,” says founder and CEO Jonathan Clarke, a board certified emergency physician. “Mend aims to transform healthcare by providing convenient and affordable care to everyone, anywhere, on their schedule.”

The service is available for patients ages 2-64. Common ailments and illnesses — from small injuries to the flu — can be treated by Mend’s medical staff, which includes experienced physician assistants and nurse practitioners as well as emergency physicians.

Simply download the app or visit the Mend website to request a visit, then await your house call. If your visit results in the need for prescription medications, you can even have your prescription delivered to your door, often the same day.

Clarke and his team believe Mend, which launched in March, is part of the fundamental change expected in the healthcare industry, one that focuses on the use of technology to provide better care to patients. And it's already the talk of the town. You may recognize Mend from our CultureMap Social: The Innovation Edition, where guests received free flu shots.

Mend is currently available in select areas of Dallas. Service hours are Monday through Friday, 8 am to 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday, 11 am to 6:30 pm. Your first visit is $50, while future Mend house calls are $199.

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Coworking News

New coworking space to open in Dallas' Oak Lawn neighborhood

Office Evolution

A coworking space is opening in Dallas in a central location: Office Evolution, a Louisville-based coworking chain, will open what a release says is a "state-of-the-art coworking space" at 3500 Oak Lawn Ave. #360 in Dallas at the southeast corner of Lemmon Avenue.

No details on what makes it state-of-the-art, but construction is ongoing and an opening is anticipated in mid-October.

Office Evolution was founded in 2003 as a shared workspace-coworking environment, cultivated on the principles of "Ohana," the Hawaiian tradition that references family working toward a common goal. (The founder was from Hawaii.)

The company started out in Boulder, Colorado, then relocated its headquarters to Louisville. It's an affiliated brand of United Franchise Group, and is part of The Vast Coworking Group, which specializes in franchising within the coworking industry. All of their locations are franchised.

The Dallas location is owned by franchisee Michael Pickering, a Dallas native who runs a family-owned indoor soccer facility in Dallas. (There are two other Office Evolution locations in the DFW area in McKinney and Southlake, owned by different franchisees.)

They're describing the Dallas location at 3500 Oak Lawn Ave. as "Turtle Creek," although its location at Oak Lawn and Lemmon really puts it at the epicenter of Oak Lawn. (To further complicate matters, the building previously and incorrectly described its address as "Uptown.")

It's a seven-story building in which the majority of tenants are doctor and medical offices.

Office Evolution rates include a coworking day pass for $25, plus "flex" office options starting at $200 a month for 20 hours, up to $550 a month for 80 hours.

Amenities of the building that are also accessible to Office Evolution customers include a front desk; a 1,000-square-foot fitness center; covered parking; and on-site security six days a week.

According to a spokesperson, Pickering and his team put $1.2 million into the renovation to transform the space, which occupies most of the fourth floor where it will span 9,240 square feet of space with 41 total offices — one of which is earmarked as an "on-demand office" for the professional on the go.

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