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AuDNet™ Audiologists Treat Hearing Impairment and Gain Recognition at Their Hearing Centers

"Recent reports indicate there are 31.5 million Americans with some degree of hearing loss. That number could reach 78 million by 2030, affecting almost one-third of the population." AuDNet CEO Kathy Foltner, Au.D.

The market for treating hearing impairment is expanding, and as a result, the number of corporate hearing centers is increasing. Across the country corporate interests are buying up independent practices, often stripping them of important diagnostic capabilities, and staffing their new hearing centers with non-audiology staff. AuDNet is working to turn back the tide of cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all hearing impairment care offered through corporate hearing centers. Our goal is to unite independent audiologists to increase patient awareness and demand for the high quality, personal care that only university-trained audiologists can provide. We believe that by working as a team, independent audiologists can become a driving market force that keeps quality patient care at the forefront.

• The AuDNet™ Mission
• AuDNet™ — Providing a National Branding Network
• Join AuDNet's National Audiologist Network Today

The AuDNet™ Mission

AuDNet's mission is to "Unite audiologists nationwide to achieve brand recognition and create demand for audiology care." You, the audiologist, trained six to eight years or more at a university to become the very best hearing impairment care provider possible. Unfortunately, your accomplishments and skills may be going unnoticed by consumers because of the blitz of slick corporate hearing aid centers that often emphasize hearing aid prices over quality patient care. AuDNet recognizes this challenge and works diligently to promote audiology as its own BRAND. Through skilled marketing and the combined efforts of concerned AuDNet-member audiologists throughout the United States, AuDNet seeks to educate consumers that only with a trained audiologist can they receive the high quality, comprehensive hearing impairment care they need and deserve. By promoting your professional degree, your training, and your unique qualifications, AuDNet will help you achieve the recognition you deserve and create consumer demand for your professional services and care.

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AuDNet™ — Providing a National Branding Network

In a recent article in Audiology Today, AuDNet CEO Kathy Foltner stated that: "regardless of work setting, every audiologist has a professional responsibility to not only understand their value, but also how each individual audiologist's situation contributes to the perception the world holds about audiologists." AuDNet is the national home for independent hearing centers and audiologists that are ready to take a stand for themselves and their profession.

Regardless of your present employment situation, you begin doing your part to protect your patients and your profession when you join AuDNet and our nationwide network of member audiologists. Membership in AuDNet gives you access to a wealth of benefits:

• You'll find available a host of marketing strategies and materials to help you promote your audiology and business skills, including information to help you develop new referral sources plus expand your practice range and image.
• You'll have access to a wide selection of ITE and BTE digital and analog hearing aids from top manufacturers at discount prices. Most of these products carry the AuDNet Advantage™ — a three-year, comprehensive warranty — at no extra charge.
• Our nationwide brokerage services help you lower your business insurance and employee benefits costs without compromising quality.
• AuDNet will provide full assistance in locating an audiologist to buy your independent practice when you are ready to sell so that your patients will continue to receive the quality care they deserve. With our national resources, we can help the buyer secure a competitive loan under ethical terms, and we offer several other transitional advantages.
• You have full access to the member section of the AuDNet website, which includes extensive resources available exclusively to AuDNet members, including:

* AuDNet Loyalist Program

* Employee Benefits and Business Insurance

* Office Management Products

* Marketing Tools and Branding Products

* Referral Generation and Management Programs

* Exit Strategy Planning and Assistance

* Member Forum

* Preventive Care Practice Tools and Products

* Nationwide Patient Database

There is absolutely no cost to join AuDNet and begin receiving these benefits and many others, including access to exceptional hearing aids by top manufacturers at the best hearing aid prices.

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Join AuDNet's National Audiologist Network Today

Whether you are an audiologist in private practice or are employed by a hospital, physician, or other hearing center, by joining AuDNet you help to ensure that quality hearing impairment care with patient focus maintains a place in today's market. You protect your profession and your patients from the influx of corporate hearing centers and their bottom-line attitude, and you help promote audiology practiced by experienced, university-trained professionals as its own brand. There is no cost to join AuDNet, and the rewards are great. To join our national network of audiologists, simply download and complete the membership application below. Then fax it to AuDNet™, and we will send you full membership information.

AuDNet Credit Application

To learn more about promoting the advantages of quality hearing impairment care by a trained AuDNet Audiologist, contact AuDNet today, and join our growing network of audiologists across the United States who are dedicated to the health of their patients and supporting the audiology profession. We also have additional information available at www.aud-net.com.

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