{"id":2442637,"date":"2019-04-07T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=303719"},"modified":"2019-04-07T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T05:02:00","slug":"business-monday-cover-story-former-aspen-club-employees-bounce-back-with-new-physical-therapy-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/business-monday-cover-story-former-aspen-club-employees-bounce-back-with-new-physical-therapy-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Monday cover story: Former Aspen Club employees bounce back with new physical-therapy practice"},"content":{"rendered":"
Physical therapists Chris Peshek and Sarah Miller, as well as chiropractor Dr. Pete Scher, recently opened their open practice on Main Street following the March 12 of Aspen Club Sports Medicine Institute.<\/strong>
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The remaining physical therapists at the financially strapped Aspen Club didn\u2019t see their eviction coming last month<\/a>, but they quickly regrouped to hang up their own shingle a block away from their old practice on Main Street.<\/p>\n

On March 12, employees at Aspen Club Sports Medicine Institute were told their time was up at 430 W. Main St. because their parent company, The Aspen Club, was behind $56,585 on rent and the landlord was evicting them.<\/p>\n

They had been using the space on a temporary basis, since February 2016, during the redevelopment project of The Aspen Club campus, at 1450 Ute Ave. Financial setbacks have put the project on hold since August 2017.<\/p>\n

Not only were the employees left in a lurch; their stable of patients, as many as 300, also had no place to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were scrambling,\u201d said Dr. Pete Scher, a chiropractor who had worked under The Aspen Club for nine years. \u201cWe had staff members calling patients who were scheduled for the next day to let them know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scher, as well as physical therapists Chris Peshek \u2014 a 28-year employee of the club \u2014 and Sarah Miller realized they had to act fast or risk the goodwill they\u2019d built up over the years.<\/p>\n

They did home visits for patients and also treated them at different facilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur biggest concerns weren\u2019t us; it was our patients\u2019 well-being,\u201d Peshek said. \u201cIt was a total injustice to our patients. Our biggest focus was landing on our feet so that our patients landed on their feet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eleven days after Aspen Club Sports Medicine Institute closed, the trio opened their own facility mere footsteps from their former location \u2014 at 400 W. Main St.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to completely cut ties and just move on and start a clean slate,\u201d Peshek said.<\/p>\n

With no business or marketing plan, no front-desk help and nobody to schedule appointments, the three took it upon themselves to own, operate and manage the new business, which spans about 1,300 square feet.<\/p>\n

They are relying on word of mouth, some social media marketing efforts, phone calls and their reputations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re doing this all backwards,\u201d Scher said.<\/p>\n

Aspen Club owner and president Michael Fox also allowed them to transfer the Aspen Club Sports Medicine Institute\u2019s phone number (970-925-8940) to the new practice.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re taking care of everything now from start to finish,\u201d Peshek said. \u201cWhere we used to have front-desk help and they would have taken care of everything, now when a patient walks in the door, we\u2019re doing all of the front-office stuff, and the treatment stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cFor 28 years, I intentionally tried to stay away from the front desk. It\u2019s been a fast education in the last couple of weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miller, who worked three years at Aspen Club Sports Medicine Institute, said there are some growing pains that go with the new business. They\u2019re in the process of getting their insurance contract re-credentialed so they can accept patients with insurance. That can take 45 to 60 days.<\/p>\n

For now, their business has no name \u2014 it is simply identified by the three individuals now in charge.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been humbling,\u201d Scher said. \u201cOur patients were worried about us, and we\u2019re so concerned about their well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n

rcarroll@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Physical therapists Chris Peshek and Sarah Miller, as well as chiropractor Dr. Pete Scher, recently opened their open practice on Main Street following the March 12 of Aspen Club Sports Medicine Institute. The remaining physical therapists at the financially strapped Aspen Club didn\u2019t see their eviction coming last month, but they quickly regrouped to hang […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 08:56:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}