PHOTO PROVIDED Relaxation time for clients at Infinity Hydration & Wellness.

Desiree Losell had been working in health care for years before heeding the call to switch gears while still using her experience and talents as a registered nurse.

She started Infinity Hydration & Wellness Bar to help people with some of their medical issues through alternative therapy.

“We are group of nurses. We are overseen by a medical director. Physician involvement is very important,” she said.

Losell is among eight nurses who tend to the growing client base of her business located at 75 Chad Road near Lycoming Mall.

“People have to be cleared medically,” she said. “Not just anybody can walk in off the street.”

Some of the health issues people come to Infinity Hydration include help for low energy, viral infections, and migraines.

Depending on the medical issue, people undergo IV infusions, vitamin injections, PEMF therapy, and medical weight loss therapy, and more.

“We have a lot of athletes who come in for endurance and performance needs,” she said. “We don’t say anything is a cure. We do very well with dealing with symptoms.”

The best aspect of Infinity Wellness, she said, is the rewarding feeling she gets from helping people.

“We get a lot of return clients,” she said. “I would say the majority of our clients return.”

Losell is a registered nurse who, by her own admission, became “burned out” during the COVID-19 pandemic and wanted something different.

She attended a conference in Kentucky and initially learned Pulsed Electro-Magnetic Field Therapy (PEMF) used to stimulate and exercise cells to help resolve cellular dysfunction and support wellness.

PEMF has been described as a therapy that treats cells like batteries.

She drew up a business plan and initially opened for business at the site of Wolf Run Vet Clinic near Pennsdale.

She credited Josh Phillips, who managed the Vet Clinic, with helping her learn more about and get

started in business.

“I started drilling him with questions on how to be successful on having a business,” she said. “I found it was important to be organized and focus on one thing at a time.”

She worked hard to get the word out about Infinity Wellness and attract business.

Being a nurse, she felt some people did not initially take her seriously as a businessperson.

She pressed on, despite her own reservations about the desire for and knowledge about alternative medicine in his area and people telling her she would be shut down.

She now has hundreds of clients.

“We get clients as far away as The Poconos and State College and upstate New York,” she said. “I didn’t expect to be as busy as we are.”

To be considered as clients, people can call for appointments and fill out a medical history.

“We are very medically based. We operate in compliance,” she said.

Overall, Losell said she is happy with her decision to change up career plans and start her own business.

“I would say this isn’t a job,” she said. “This might be the easiest job I ever had. If you enjoy it’s not work.”

She plans to eventually open another location.