On its 33rd anniversary, PhilCare, one of the leading Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) provider in the Philippines today, together with mommy bloggers celebrated over a tea party last Wednesday. June 24, 2015 at Chateau 1771, Greenbelt 5 Makati City.
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| Venue Shots of Mommy Bloggers who celebrated with PhilCare's 33rd Anniversary |
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| Appetizers over a cup of hot tea (something to relax the mommies while waiting for the main program and the main course as well) |
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| Chateau 1771 is a perfect venue for celebrating health with PhilCare |
With the theme #PhilCareWellnesEverywhere the afternoon was filled with health awareness talk and how PhilCare will help, not just mommies who were there but all Filipinos, to have a readily accessible and available health card in just a few clicks anytime and anywhere.
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With the pace of how the world rapidly shifts to a more digital society, PhilCare adapts with it through entering eCommerce where the convenience of having a health card can be accessed through their website.
www.philcare.com.ph
Online shopping of Philcare's health card and its services can be done in 3 easy steps:
(1) Online Purchase of Cards
(2) Cards Get Delivered Nationwide
(3) Hassle-Free SMS Activation of Cards
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| Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of PhilCare, Ms. Patty Henson, instructed us with how to access their site and provided facts about PhilCare and their products. |
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| President and Chief Executive Officer of PhilCare, Ms. Maria Noemi G. Azura, enthusiastically entertained questions from the audience about PhilCare's newest online approach and services. |
Mommy bloggers were given the actual instructions on the step-by-step process on purchasing PhilCare products and services through
www.philcare.com.ph.
Here's how to purchase on PhilCare's eCommerce Website:
STEP 1: ONLINE PURCHASE OF THE CARD (24/7 ONLINE SHOPPING)
It only takes 4 clicks to shop on PhilCare website beginning from the homepage:
A. From www.philcare,com,ph, click --->
1. SHOP NOW --->
2. Choose your product and Add Item to cart --->
3. Checkout --->
4. Purchase
B. PhilCare Partnered with Aurumpay, Dragonpay and BPI to bring numerous options of payment including:
1. Credit Card
2. Debit Card (Bancnet)
3.Online Banking
4. Over the Counter
4. a. BDO, BPI, Chinabank, EastWest Bank, MetrobankDirect, RCBC AccessOne, Unionbank, UCPB, Dragonpay Prepaid Credits, Landbank, Maybank, Metrobank, RCBC, Robinsons Bank, Sterling Bank, Security Bank, Bayad Center, Cebuana Lhuillier, CashU, ECPay, LBC, Robinsons Dept Store, SM Dept/Supermarket/Savemore.
4. b. For international customers who wish to purchase a card and sent it to their loved ones in the Philippines, PhilCare website accepts payments through credit card and I-remit (OTC through Dragonpay).
STEP 2: NATIONWIDE DELIVERY
PhilCare use major logistics partners that include LBC and DHL to have the cards delivered nationwide right at your doorsteps.
The cut-off time is 11am where purchases made prior to 11am will be shipped out the same day.
STEP 3: SMS ACTIVATION
PhilCare has adapted the hassle-free prepaid card approach on registering. Once received, all the customer needs to do is lightly scratch-off the grey panel at the back of the card to see the PIN and Serial Number. If successful, customer will receive a message confirming their registration.
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| Our Free ERVantage 80 Plan worth 1300php |
On the event proper, we were given a free entitlement of their ER Vantage 80 service card once we completed the process of purchasing.
Details of this ER Vantage plan from the PhilCare site:
Product Description
The ER Vantage 80 prepaid card is a one-time use emergency care leading to admission health card for individuals 6 months to 64 years old.
- Provides coverage of hospital emergency care leading to admission up to the plan benefit limit for treatment of medical emergency cases due to accident or illness except for cases declared as non-coverable.
- Covers room and board corresponding to plan type:
| Plan 40 | Plan 60 | Plan 80 |
| Aggregate Benefit Limit (ABL) | P40,000.00 | P60,000.00 | P80,000.00 |
| Room Type | Ward | Semi-Private | Regular Private |
| Premium | P 900.00 | P 1,100.00 | P 1,300.00 |
- Could also be used just for out-patient emergency room care
- Covers hospital emergency care for animal bites except vaccines
- Inclusive of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures as medically necessary during ER and confinement
- Covers special modalities of treatment as medically necessary during ER and confinement and subject to Php 5,000 inner limit
- No hospital deposit required
- Nationwide access to designated PhilCare affiliated hospital
- Exclusive access to Go!Mobile App that lets you check your health benefit packages and steadfast search of affiliated hospitals
- Participation in the PhilCare 360 health and wellness programs
PhilCare's site offers a wide variety of health services that can be purchased by following the steps discussed above. Their newest approach for convenient, accessible and affordable health card plans are highly recommended for full time moms like me who doesn't own corporate HMO as well as those people who do freelance jobs. Another great aspect of their offering, the card is transferable to anyone who would need them during emergency plus PhilCare has affiliations to a lot of medical institutions and hospitals nationwide (list of hospital affiliations is also available at www.philcare.com.ph
Being a true advocate of health, PhilCare's tea party doesn't just confined itself to knowledge enhancement for the mommy bloggers who attended. Mini contest was held to exercise the moms social health.
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| The mommy bloggers were grouped into 5 persons each for the puzzle solving activity with this simple mechanics: The first group to finish the challenge and shout "Happy Anniversary PhilCare" will win the prize |
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| Here's the photo of our team's completed puzzle |
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| And with much luck during the day, our team won with a 500 php Sodexho gift certificate each. |
PhilCare team also raffled off one trip for 2 to Palawan, and one of our team mate won this, Bedalyn Aguas of mamiandfamily.blogspot.com. Our table indeed had the luckiest table that day.
Before the program ended, each mom were asked to sign on PhilCare's commitment board as we each one pledged to be advocates of health and wellness everywhere.
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| With much generosity, PhilCare had given each attendees this health promoting loot. |
The special gift we received is filled with stuffs that will promote relaxation and achievement of a sound mind, body and spirit. As moms, PhilCare considers that we achieve holistic health in order for us to actively care for our family and promotes health with them.
Quotable wisdoms related to health were also included on each product and are worthy to be shared to everyone to achieve health and wellness.
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| "Never throw in the towel. Use it to wipe off the sweat. Then keep going." |
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| "Lets us pray that our lives become incense sticks, spreading a beautiful fragrance to the lives of one and all." |
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| "Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what. - Julia Cameron" |
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| "How I feel about myself is more important than how I look. Feeling confident, being comfortable in your own skin - that's what really makes you beautiful. - Bobby Brown" |
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| "Smell is a potent wizard that transport us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived." |
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| "Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the fire of the candle cannot be reduced. Happiness never decreases when shared." |
And with this PhilCare shares the happiness of achieving health and wellness to every Filipino through their continuous efforts on service and product innovations as a response to an ever growing health care needs and demands.
As a mom and as a nurse, I greatly appreciated this PhilCare's newest approach on providing health for everyone, and is recommending Filipinos to avail their services that offers ease of availment and affordable prices for different packages to choose from according to one's needs.
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| Together we can achieve health and wellness and Make Health Happen |
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--- Lovelots ---
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| My Little Angel wearing the fascinator provided by PhilCare. Thank you PhilCare for an afternoon of health awareness and promotion! |
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| In every event, a shameless solo pic is required. |
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