FLOWER MOUND, Texas, June 8, 2016 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Heritage Health Solutions, Inc. (Heritage) is proud to team up with Texas Woman’s University Project INVEST in support of the annual Southwest Military Wheelchair Basketball Conference (SMWBC).
“This is an exciting new endeavor for us,” said James L. Rosengren, MHA, FACHE, Chairman and Executive Chairman of Heritage. “Because adaptive sports are another venue of superior veteran care, the choice to participate was a natural one.”
The conference will be held June 17-19 at Flower Mound’s Cross Timbers YMCA and kicks off Friday with a free basketball clinic for boys and girls. The clinic will introduce them to the rules and fundamentals of wheelchair basketball. Additionally, as a new feature this year, the Flower Mound First Responders will compete against Wounded Warriors that evening.
On Saturday, tournaments will begin at TWU’s Pioneer Hall in Denton and run 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. This event will feature co-ed wounded warrior basketball teams and showcase Southwest Texas’ finest military wheelchair basketball teams. Winners of the Saturday games will compete for the championship on Sunday morning with an award ceremony at noon.
Now in its third year, the SMWBC builds teamwork, competition, fitness, and fun among military veterans from all branches of the service. The SMWBC also provides the opportunity for veterans to have fun and build camaraderie.
“This conference is a highly anticipated event each year,” said Kent Robinson, SFC, US Army (Ret) founder of the SMWBC. “It shows veterans that, just because you have a disability, you don’t have to be disabled; it doesn’t mean you have to sit around on the couch. An active lifestyle is still out there, and it’s waiting for you.”
The event is sponsored by Texas Woman’s University Project INVEST and will highlight more than 35 veterans representing all military branches from Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.
“We are incredibly proud to be involved,” said Ronald Davis, PhD, CAPE, founder of Project INVEST. “As our organization’s goal is to return injured veterans to their lives through sports, we’re seeing that events like these have huge benefits for them. Their perspectives are becoming far more positive.”
About Heritage Health Solutions, Inc.
Heritage Health Solutions, Inc. (Heritage), a verified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), provides health care delivery and management, pharmacy services, medical cost containment, and telemedicine to federal, state, county, and municipal agencies. Its pharmacy benefit management subsidiary, PrismRx, LLC, provides patients, pharmacists, and payors prescription services that enhance patient care and reduce costs.
Heritage is in its tenth year of providing pharmacy first fill prescription services to well in excess of one million military veterans at over 700 VA medical clinic locations across the country. The company is also committed to providing prescription services to veterans’ dependents who resided at Camp Lejeune during 1957 to 1987. In addition, Heritage supports the U.S. Marshals Service National Managed Care Contract by delivering health care services to 50,000 plus prisoners in the United States Marshals custody. For more information, visit www.heritagehealthsolutions.com.
About Southwest Military Wheelchair Basketball Conference
The Southwest Military Wheelchair Basketball Conference (SMWBC) builds teamwork, competition, fitness fun among military veterans from all branches of the service. Additionally, SMWBC seeks to provide an opportunity for the veterans to have some fun and build camaraderie. More than 35 veterans representing all military branches from Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma compete in conference. The conference is sponsored by Texas Woman’s University Project Injured Veterans Entering Sport Training and supported by Heritage Health Solutions. For more information about the SMWBC, please contact Kent Robinson at [email protected].
About Texas Woman’s University Project Injured Veterans Entering Sport Training
Texas Woman’s University Project Injured Veterans Entering Sport Training (TWU Project INVEST) has served injured, ill and wounded military by offering adaptive sports and activities at various venues and locations through North Texas. The organization serves disabled military, both active duty and veterans, with a permanent physical disability such as amputations, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, visual impairments, and significant nerve and muscle damage.
TWU Project INVEST believes in advocating a healthy and enjoyable life through sport and activity programs. In addition, the adaptive sports organization welcomes every station of duty, branch of service, and active duty, and veteran service members of all conflicts to become involved in the programs in order to make a positive impact in their lives and the lives of others. A variety of individual and group programs for servicemen and women and their families are provided. These programs are designed to improve and promote overall well-being and independence resulting from a physically active lifestyle. Adapted activities include wheelchair basketball, indoor wheelchair soccer, wheelchair tennis, sit volleyball, rock climbing, water volleyball, goal ball, boccia, kayak soccer, and fitness activities. For more information about TWU Project INVEST contact [email protected] and visit http://www.twu.edu/project-invest/default.asp.
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