Blue Orchid Opens On Eighth Avenue & Main Street
Integrative Medical Practice Offers Everything From Primary Care to Coolsculpting
A new medical practice has opened on Eighth Avenue and Main Street.
The brainchild of brother sister team Josh Lane and Barbara Locke, Blue Orchid is actually a one stop medispa specializing in everything from primary care to the trending vampire facial and coolsculpting.
Office manager Shannon Flammia explains that vampire facials were made popular by Reality TV star Kim Kardashian. The treatment is a combination of microneedling, followed by the application of platelet rich blood drawn from the patient, placed in a centrifuge and redistributed across the face in order help rejuvenate the cells. Coolsculpting is an FDA approved non-surgical fat-reduction treatment that uses a freezing technique to eliminate fat cells.
The practice also offers evaluation/treatment, PrEP counseling for those at risk of HIV/AIDS, and vitamin 
supplemented infusions that are Lane’s proprietary blends; think IV hangover cures, B12 infusions and those with anti inflammatory properties.
Lane, a rural Kentucky native who works as an anesthesiologist at a New York hospital, moved to Asbury Park four years ago.
“I heard a lot about the town,” he said. “Coming from Kentucky, I would never have predicted walking down the [city] streets and knowing people by name.”
Lane’s dream of creating a medi-spa began to take form almost immediately.
“From the very beginning of his move here, we would sit at the dining room table brainstorming,” Locke said.
The University of Pennsylvania graduate began formulating a practice that would help fill a need, he said.
Those brainstorming visits from his Florida-based sister resulted in her move to town in order to serve as nurse practitioner and practice manager, while Lane takes on the role of medical practice’s director and overseeing his customized rejuvenating infusions.
“What a better way to unite two siblings than through medicine,” Lane said. “We want to fill a piece of the Asbury Park puzzle. We are vested in this community and value being as inclusionary as we can be with our primary care.”
Lane and Locke have brought on Dr. Canh Tran, a celebrated traveling internist who will be on site one week a month. The St. George’s University School of Medicine graduate is a Vietnam native, raised in Minnesota, who speaks multiple languages.
They have a certified esthetician and coolsculpting specialist on staff and plans are to hire a second a nurse practitioner, Lane said. They will administer in house lab testing when available.
“We want to take care of people from primary to medical aesthetics and quality of care is everything,” Lane said “We believe people should look and feel as good as they can.”
Blue Orchid is located directly across from Dr. Carl Lepis’ obstetrics & gynecology practice, located at 607 Eighth Avenue.
For more about Blue Orchid, email and/or visit their website, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages.
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