A/PS, Inc. (1-800-AUTOPSY) launches Autopsy Franchise

The world's first private autopsy service franchise is now available, announced Autopsy/Post Services Franchise, Inc. "By franchising, we are able to provide an invaluable service to a much larger public," said Vidal Herrera, founder of the company. For years, since founding his mobile-based thanatology specialty services company, Autopsy/Post Services, Inc. in 1988, Vidal Herrera has been receiving requests and inquiries from family members of the deceased, not just in Los Angeles County, where he is based, but from all over the country and the world. "We never wanted to decline to provide our services to a family in need, but serving them meant they had to arrange for transportation of the decedent's remains to a location in our area," says Vidal, an expert autopsy technician (diener) and former Field Deputy Coroner Investigator with the L.A. County Chief Medical Examiner Coroners Office. "The cost to do so can be prohibitive, but now franchisees will be activated in many states across the country to better serve the needs of the public."

The franchise will provide those who join the system with thorough initial and on-going training, materials, techniques and guidance, and methods for operating the business. An operations manual gives the A/PS franchisee specifications, standards, checklists and procedures to follow for nearly every conceivable situation. High-tech support for franchisees will include intranet and e-mail communications.

"Autopsy technicians, embalmers, pathologists, or pathology assistants looking for growth opportunities will find this franchise an interesting entrepreneurial alternative to consider," indicates Herrera. "We believe strongly in the ability and knowledge the local franchisee can bring to the business, and our goal is to support their initiative with systems that set the quality standard in private autopsy care."

The model for the A/PS franchise, Autopsy/Post Services, Inc. is a totally autonomous and mobile-cased specialty company providing efficient quality anatomic, clinical procurement and forensic services nationwide. It's founder Vidal Herrera, is a dynamic community leader, husband and father of two, with 24 years of experience working within hospital and medical-legal forensic environments. He attributes the successful growth of A/PS, Inc. to the organizations efforts to provide the deceased with a voice, and the absolute adherence to the highest ethical standards in all aspects of the business. A significant part of A/PS's mission has always been to broaden society's perspective about the "positive side of death" with respect to transplantable tissue, cadaver-tissue research, and whole body donations. Vidal points out that "medical research has a critical shortage and constant demand for fresh cadaver tissue. We seek to educate the public in order to increase tissue availability. We will also be involved, through our network of franchises, with the organizations that recycle and redistribute medical appliances that are donated and given to developing countries." Funeral industry organizations, hospitals and research institutions, organ transplant and tissue procurement foundations, private families, forensic-based pathologists and the legal community at local, national and international levels, have come to rely on A/PS for providing accurate and high quality information.

Persons interested in learning more about the franchise can call A/PSFC at 800-288-6779 or visit the organizations website - www.1800autopsy.com for more information.