Designed by New Horizon Ventures, the community offers four buildings with six single-occupant rooms and two townhome buildings with eight townhomes. The six single-occupant rooms are spaciously designed and are each equipped with a private bathroom. Additionally, residents have access to shared facilities, including a full kitchen, dining area, living room and laundry facility. The community also provides ample office space for support staff.
The two townhome buildings offer four units each with two bedrooms and one-and-a-half bathrooms. Features include a split-level design, attached garages, and in-unit laundry.
A 3,700-square-foot on-site activity building contains a community kitchen, craft space, computer center, and fitness area for all residents to use. Residents can also enjoy a paved walking path on site.
A consultant was engaged to help select interior finishes that are conducive to a healthy environment for Autistic adults.
The project was designed with sustainability in mind to achieve Wisconsin Green Built Homes certification.
About McShane Construction Company McShane Construction Company was established in 1984 and is headquartered in Rosemont, Illinois, with regional offices in Madison, WI, Auburn, AL, Irvine, CA, Nashville, TN, and Phoenix, AZ. The female-owned and led firm offers integrated design-build and build-to-suit construction services for the multi-family, industrial, commercial, health & fitness and institutional markets. For more information, visit the firm’s website at http://www.mcshaneconstruction.com.
Transaction Represents the First Private Equity Exit in U.S. Podiatry
NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Albaron Partners LP (“Albaron”), a middle market private equity firm, is pleased to announce that it has completed the sale of Albaron Podiatry Holdings LLC d/b/a Beyond Podiatry (“Beyond Podiatry”), the Midwest’s leading podiatric medicine practice management company, to CUC Inc. (TSE: 9158), on January 5, 2024. The transaction values the business at $87 million and represents the first acquisition for CUC Inc. (“CUC”) in the U.S. as well as the first private equity exit in U.S. podiatry.
“This is a transformational moment for Beyond Podiatry. We are thrilled for Dr. Stephen Frascone and his fellow physician shareholders, as well as John Moroney, President, and the entire Beyond Podiatry team.” said Alessio Baraldi, Albaron Partners. “CUC is the perfect partner for the platform’s next stage of growth, and we look forward to following Beyond Podiatry’s continued success.”
“I could not have wished for a better first partnership than what we built with Albaron,” said Dr. Frascone, founder and Chief Medical Officer of Beyond Podiatry. “Their strategic direction, operational expertise and vision for growth is unparalleled in the healthcare middle market.”
“We are excited to enter the U.S. podiatry market with Beyond Podiatry,” said Keita Hamaguchi, Founder and CEO of CUC. “Albaron has built a scalable platform that will allow us to rapidly expand throughout the U.S. The team at Beyond Podiatry is a clear market leader and shares our vision for future growth.”
About Beyond Podiatry
With over 200 employees across 30+ locations in the Midwest, Beyond Podiatry treats more than 250,000 patients per year for a variety of lower extremity conditions. Since its founding in 2018, Beyond Podiatry has consistently expanded its footprint through M&A and de novo clinic openings. Beyond Podiatry supports a team of 56 doctors who treat patients across Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. (https://beyond-podiatry.com)
About CUC
CUC, Inc. (TSE: 9158) is a publicly traded Japanese company with operations in Asia.
CUC began its global expansion in 2019, mainly in Southeast Asia, with its mission of “Creating Hope through Healthcare”. CUC formed CUC America Inc. in July 2023 to undertake market research and facilitate business development in the U.S.
With this acquisition, CUC’s objective is to support the operational capabilities of Beyond Podiatry as a premier practice management platform by utilizing the expertise CUC has gained through its management support for medical institutions in Japan. Going forward, Beyond Podiatry will maintain its operations under the direction of its current management team alongside several directors from CUC.
CUC’s publicly filed announcements regarding the transaction can be found at the following links:
Founded in 2017, Albaron is an operationally focused middle market healthcare private equity firm. Albaron’s dedicated team of healthcare investors and operators helps physician founders and management teams scale their businesses and grow leading platforms within their individual specialties. (https://albaronpartners.com)
FSC announced the new partnership amid a period of exponential growth for the agency within international markets. Currently, roughly a third of the agency’s client base lives outside of the United States, across 36 different countries. FSC’s new exclusive partnership will help the agency provide its “top-notch services” to even more intended parents in Israel, said Jessica Williams, the agency’s International Relations Manager.
“We are extremely pleased to collaborate with Manor Baby and LARC in this exciting new venture,” said Williams. “This partnership will allow us to help even more of Israel’s intended parents create families through our tailored surrogacy services.”
“As international companies, Family Source Consultants and LARC have experience with assisting clients outside the USA and help individuals and couples of all races, sexual orientations, and religious and ethnic backgrounds,” said Sharon Alon, CEO of Manor Baby. “Together, with our shared values and combined expertise, we can provide better services for our intended parents by pooling our resources, expertise and experience.”
To date, Manor Baby has assisted in the births of 5,500 babies via surrogacy and egg donation. This new partnership will allow the agency to provide Israeli intended parents with “an even wider range of services,” said Alon, along with “fresh perspectives and new ideas.”
The primary goal of the arrangement, according to Williams, is to provide a “holistic surrogacy experience” for Israeli-intended parents. This new, exclusive partnership with Manor Baby and LARC will allow all three agencies to provide a “seamless, positive experience” for Israeli intended parents.
LARC brings two-and-a-half decades of combined physician experience to the partnership, and is thus uniquely qualified to help support FSC in providing 360-degree surrogacy services for Manor Baby’s clients, said Williams.
“We could not be more excited about the opportunity to work with both Manor Baby and Family Source Consultants,” said Dr. Marc Kalan and Dr. Nurit Winkler in a joint statement. “Both Manor Baby and Family Source Consultants have a solid and well-established reputation in the field of egg donation and surrogacy, both locally and internationally.”
With its favored location in California, among the most desired locations to create a family via surrogacy, LARC has worked with patients in countries across the world, with a special connection to Israel. “We are proud of LARC’s outsized role in serving Israeli-intended parents with pride, compassion, and success,” Dr, Kalan and Dr. Winkler said.
All three partners stressed the importance of using the new venture to help all intended parents in Israel start or grow their families. The new partnership will support the journeys of anyone requiring surrogacy services to achieve their dream of parenthood, including those from the LGBTQ community, unmarried couples, and single individuals. “It’s wonderful to be working alongside companies with the same values and ethos as us,” Williams said.
The partners said they aimed to instill hope in Israeli intended parents through this project, emphasizing the essence of third-party reproduction as a source of optimism. “Surrogacy gives options to those facing challenges starting or growing their families through conventional methods,” Williams said. “We are thrilled to be able to offer this partnership as a source of inspiration for those dreaming of parenthood.”
The new partnership officially launched on January 8, 2024 with new intended parents welcomed into the program immediately. This date brings more than this partnership to recognize as Family Source Consultants is also celebrating 17 years of bringing dreams and miracles together!
About Family Source Consultants: Family Source Consultants is a leading surrogacy and assisted reproductive agency committed to helping individuals and couples worldwide realize their dreams of parenthood. With a strong focus on personalized care, exceptional support, and ethical practices, Family Source Consultants has built a reputation as a trusted partner in the surrogacy and assisted reproductive journey.
“Fear Free is excited to partner with Antelligence and sponsor the Veterinary Student Insider,” said Randy Valpy, CEO of Fear Free. Valpy further commented, “Fear Free has become one of the single most transformative initiatives in the history of companion animal practice and is recommended or mandated at most veterinary colleges in the USA. We are proud to offer our certification course at no charge to students.”
Students can register for their Fear Free certification by clicking here.
Founded by Dr. Marty Becker and developed by hundreds of experts in behavior, medicine, and handling, Fear Free offers online and in-person education to veterinary professionals, the pet professional community, animal shelter staff and volunteers, and pet owners. Fear Free provides both professionals and pet lovers alike with the knowledge and tools to look after a pet’s physical and emotional wellbeing.
Veterinary or pet professionals can learn more about becoming Fear Free Certified by visiting fearfreepets.com. Pet owners can visit fearfreehappyhomes.com to access free videos, articles, and more that will help improve the physical and emotional health of their pets right at home. Shelter, rescue, and animal welfare employees and volunteers can visit fearfreeshelters.com to enroll in the complimentary program.
About Antelligence
Antelligence delivers timely, comprehensive and expertly curated information and insights for animal health industry stakeholders, enabling them to make well-informed decisions for their businesses. Staffed by a team of industry experts, its publications provide a broad, agnostic view of what’s happening in animal health, from the companion animal, to livestock, to pet retail and veterinary education sectors. Antelligence focuses on the business side of the industry, serving over 50,000 highly engaged subscribers with the Fountain Report, Pet Care Weekly and the Veterinary Student Insider. For more information, visit www.antelligence.com.
The report proposes reforms to limit contagion when bank failures occur and mitigate broader economic consequences. These include enhanced liquidity support mechanisms, notably a much-improved lender-of-last-resort (LoLR) regime, possible changes to deposit insurance, and a truly workable scheme for resolving large banks. The key goal of the reforms is to reduce the risks of liquidity and other stresses from spilling over to other banks and the system at large. The report also stresses that reforms are needed to reduce the likelihood of banks failing. These reforms include better bank governance; improved accounting standards and financial reporting; changes to prudential regulations; and much better supervision, including more comprehensive stress tests. Most of these reforms, many advocated for some time, do not impose large costs, if any, on those banks that are already well run and transparent, and they will both force and incentivize banks that are poorly run to improve their performance.
William C. Dudley, Chair of the G30 Working Group on the 2023 Banking Crisis, explained: “We propose strengthened lender-of-last-resort (LoLR) mechanisms: we would require banks to pre-position enough collateral at the discount window to cover, after the normal haircutting for credit risks, all runnable liabilities—that is, all liabilities excluding capital, long-term debt, swap liabilities, and insured deposits. This more robust LoLR system would enable banks to obtain immediate liquidity in times of stress and avoid fire-selling assets.” Dudley continued: “By requiring pre-positioning, we will reduce the risk that uninsured depositors and other short-term claimholders run for the exits during periods of panic.”
Stijn Claessens, Project Director of the G30 Working Group on the 2023 Banking Crisis and Former Head of Financial Stability Policy at the Bank for International Settlements, added: “The study takes a holistic perspective. We recognize the need for a balance between market discipline and public support. We crafted the reforms mindful of minimizing the impact of reforms on the overall financial system.” He added: “We concluded that a reformed LoLR system is the most important, most feasible, and lowest-cost reform.”
Darrell Duffie, Project Advisor to the G30 Working Group on the 2023 Banking Crisis and Adams Distinguished Professor of Management at Stanford University, added: “These LoLR changes can be undertaken by the central bank and regulatory authorities now, without the need for new legislation. In the case of the United States, we do not need to wait for Congress to act. Policymakers and regulators can strengthen the system quickly and effectively.”
Patricia Mosser, Project Advisor to the G30 Working Group on the 2023 Banking Crisis and Director of the MPA Program in Economic Policy Management at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, added: “We are clear that in normal times, banks need to conduct their own prudent risk management, including by holding enough liquid assets, except in the most extreme scenarios that cause a need for an LoLR. Robust norms of good governance, risk management, conduct, and culture will always be necessary for strong and stable banking—as the G30 has stressed in the past. Prepositioning is not a substitute for good risk management.”
The G30 Working Group on the 2023 Banking Crisis included eleven members: Mohamed El-Erian, Jason Furman, John Heimann, Gail Kelly, Mervyn King, Helene Rey, William Rhodes, Masaaki Shirakawa, Tidjane Thiam, Axel Weber, and Zhou Xiaochuan. We extend our gratitude to the Working Group members for their support, input, and dedication throughout the project.
The G30 thanks Project Director Stijn Claessens for his contributions to the report and his engagement on the endeavor.
To receive a copy of Bank Failures and Contagion: Lender of Last Resort, Liquidity, and Risk Management, contact G30 Press Officer Melissa Golding at +1 571-236-2820 or [email protected].
On January 9, 2024, at 10:00am EST, the G30 hosted a live webinar discussion of the report with William Dudley, Stijn Claessens, Darrell Duffie, and Patricia Mosser. A link to the event recording is available on the G30 website, www.group30.org.
The Group of Thirty is an independent global body comprised of economic and financial leaders from the public and private sectors and academia. It aims to deepen understanding of global economic and financial issues, to explore the international repercussions of decisions taken in the public and private sectors, and to examine the choices available to policymakers and market practitioners. The Group was established in 1978. The Chairman of the Board of Trustees is Tharman Shanmugaratnam. Mark Carney is Chair of the Group. More information and membership bios are available at www.group30.org.
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“At Bobo’s we’re committed to minimizing our environmental impact throughout our supply chain,” said TJ McIntyre, CEO of Bobo’s. “While we always strive to make decisions to improve the livelihoods of our people and the planet, our production process inevitably generates carbon emissions that we’re accountable for. Acorn’s revolutionary approach to carbon removal credits benefiting smallholder farmers across the globe made this a win-win. Acorn is the perfect partner to help us achieve carbon neutrality.”
While historically the carbon credit market has received its fair share of skepticism, Acorn is disrupting the traditional carbon offset model. The company has adopted an entirely new approach to helping responsible organizations, like Bobo’s, reach their sustainability goals leveraging the power of agroforestry. Agroforestry is the planting and integration of different species, such as fruit or nut bearing trees, and various crops on the field. Adopting agroforestry practices significantly benefits local farmers because it delivers more diverse crop yields, increased biodiversity and improved soil quality on their farms. It also helps local farmer’s businesses become more climate resilient, diversifies their income and improves food security within their local community. As the trees and plants mature and grow, they produce more and more yield while sequestering an increased amount of carbon.
“With Acorn we are delighted to partner with sustainable frontrunners like Bobo’s to support smallholder farmers globally. Their transition to carbon-capturing agroforestry has an incredible impact on various levels. Biodiversity increases, local welfare improves, and our planet cools down — everyone benefits,” said Jelmer van de Mortel, Head of Acorn
The amount of carbon captured by the trees and plants planted as part of Acorn’s agroforestry program is monitored with remote sensing techniques. Each ton of captured carbon represents one carbon removal unit (CRU). These CRU’s, which are traceable, certified and nature based, are sold to responsible companies like Bobo’s. But it’s the local farmers who benefit the most. With 80 percent of the sales revenue going directly to the farmers, it creates a substantial additional income stream and helps them adopt a more future-proof and sustainable way of farming. The remaining 20 percent is split evenly between Acorn and its local partners who help coordinate with the local farmers.
For more information about Bobo’s sustainability initiatives and delicious and nutritious products, please visit eatbobos.com.
About Bobo’s
Bobo’s has been making people everywhere feel like family with fresh-baked, wholesome snacks since 2003 when BOBO and her mother decided to whip up their favorite homemade oat bar recipe in their Boulder, CO kitchen. Today, the Bobo’s family of products include the original oat bars and has expanded with Oat Bites, Stuff’d Bites, Nut-Butter Filled Bars, Toaster Pastries, Protein Bars and now Dipp’d bars that can be found in natural and conventional grocers around the country. Every healthy Bobo’s treat is still 100% gluten free, kosher, and non-GMO certified. To learn more about Bobo’s and how the brand stays committed to feeding everyone like family, visit ww.eatbobos.com or follow @eatbobos on social media.
About Acorn
Acorn, part of Rabobank, supports smallholder farmers in developing countries transition to agroforestry. Together with local partners, we facilitate the funding and training needed by farmers to start their agroforestry transition. Transforming the sequestered CO2 through agroforestry into Carbon Removal Units (CRUs), we offer carbon credits to responsible corporates to help them reach their climate goals. The growth of the trees is measured with satellite imagery, AI and LiDAR, and certified by ICROA-accredited Plan Vivo.
With 80% of the sales revenue going directly to the farmers, it creates an additional income stream and helps them adopt a more climate-resilient way of farming that improves food security, biodiversity, and financial independence.
Companies Working Together to Address Post-Acute Care Delivery Management Needs Through Strategic Agreement
CHAPIN, S.C., Jan. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Virtue Technologies, a leading provider of Home Infusion, Specialty Pharmacy, Long Term Care Pharmacy, and Durable Medical Equipment logistics technology solutions, announced today a Strategic Agreement with final mile delivery leader 24/7 Xpress. The agreement will allow 24/7 Xpress access to solutions being offered to Virtue Technologies’ pharmacy and home medical equipment technology subscribers. Virtue Technologies’ namesake solution, VirtueScript, automates delivery workflow processes and increases the level of communication that occurs across the continuum of post-acute care.
“Establishing this collaborative agreement with 24/7 Xpress allows us to further broaden our vision of taking an agnostic, interoperable approach to healthcare technology solutions. Our steadfast vision remains to increase automation while reducing friction as it relates to delivery management in the post-acute market,” says Gibran Ameer, Chief Executive Officer of Virtue Technologies. “We provide our courier network partners much needed access to Electronic Health Record (EHR) logistics information to better serve their customers through a fully interoperable solution. We look forward to applying 24/7 Xpress’ final mile expertise to further create value in our customers’ businesses collectively.”
About Virtue Technologies
Virtue Technologies is a provider of cloud-based software committed to solving the challenges of the highly fragmented durable medical equipment and pharmacy markets. The solutions strive to drive out cost and improve the revenue cycle by improving staff efficiency, removing waste, increasing patient satisfaction, and providing unparalleled visibility to pharmacy operations. In an environment of shrinking reimbursements, growing audit risk, and persistent demand from patients and caregivers, Virtue Technologies provides the solutions the market demands.
About 24/7 Xpress
24/7 Xpress has been your trusted partner, at the forefront of revolutionizing healthcare logistics for over 25 years. We understand the critical nature and unique needs required in the space of Home Infusion, Specialty Pharmacy, Long Term Care Pharmacy, and Durable Medical Equipment. That’s why we operate round the clock, ensuring your deliveries are always on time, every time. We specialize in providing unparalleled courier and logistic services tailored exclusively for the Pharmacy healthcare industry. Seamless coordination from our On-Site management teams ensures all your Scheduled, and On-Demand deliveries are delivered swiftly and responsibly, complete with real time electronic proof of delivery signature capture. At 24/7 Xpress, we take pride in our HIPAA compliance standards while providing comprehensive coverage throughout the United States, from the Northeast, to the South, extending throughout the Midwest. Seamless, reliable, and compliant courier services tailored to your requirements. Our commitment to excellence, reliability, and compliance has solidified us as the premier choice in the market.
Until recently, there was no standardized benchmark for the quality of service in Mechanical Ventilation (MV) facilities. This posed potential risks to the well-being of patients and their families, resulting in problems such as lung-related injuries and dependence on MV. Meanwhile, the facilities struggled with inefficient resource utilization and elevated liability insurance rates.
Endorsed by the American Society of Respiratory Care (AARC), Enhanced Respiratory Care is the pioneering standard within the field. It’s developed on evidence-based principles and refined through extensive practice in Tennessee, where it has served as a ventilation standard since 2003. The standard includes advancements in weaning, patient care, and ventilator unit technology. It’s beneficial to both sides: patients and their families can expect quality-of-life improvements that make positive outcomes more likely, while facilities gain a competitive edge through accreditation and optimize their resource utilization.
Clyde Heflin MD, FACCP spoke about the need for recognized standards of care, “Previous to the Enhanced Respiratory Care Standards of Care, there were no established standards of care. Patients were sent to healthcare facilities based on other factors – bed availability, the smoothness of the marketing process, the look of the building, and so on. Enhanced Respiratory Care provides a standard of care that ensures that patients are receiving care based on an established standard and not on extraneous factors.” Dr. Heflin is also a member of the Enhanced Respiratory Care Standards Committee.
Michael Wong, JD (Executive Director, Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety) emphasized the patient safety and quality of care that the State of Hawaii will now enjoy, saying, “When families send their loved ones and friends to a healthcare facility, they want to make sure that they are receiving the best care possible. For the State of Hawaii, Islands Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation is such a facility.”
The Enhanced Respiratory Care Standards of Care are supported and endorsed by the AARC. Carl Hinkson, MS, RRT-NPS, ACCS, FAARC (President, AARC) writes:
“The American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) would like to express our support and endorsement of your efforts in developing standards of care and facility accreditation for long-term mechanical ventilation in skilled nursing facilities. As the leading professional association for respiratory therapists in the United States, we recognize the importance of ensuring patients receive the highest quality care possible.”
Gene Gantt RRT, FAARC, whose team has developed and managed the Enhanced Respiratory Care program in Tennessee since 2013, said, “The Enhanced Respiratory Care Program is based on standards published by the American Association for Respiratory Care. Utilized in Tennessee, this Program has achieved liberation rates of 65% and has earned national recognition of excellence from the American College of Chest Physicians.”
Islands Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation is Hawaii’s premier post-acute and respiratory care community specializing in short-term rehabilitation, ventilator, and tracheostomy rehab care program. Our 42-bed facility is equipped to provide the same kind of care that you would receive in a hospital or intensive care unit. Partnering with your physician, we put together a personalized post-acute care team for you. This team can include physical, occupational, speech, and respiratory therapists, a social worker, a nutritionist, post-acute care nurses, and nurse assistants. Our community design and specialty therapeutic equipment enable us to provide the first-class quality care needed to support your needs.
The goal is to help transition you to as normal a life as possible. Whether it’s a short stay to help with rehabilitation from a COPD, heart attack, or stroke, or a long-term stay to assist with daily ventilator or tracheostomy care. Islands Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation has you covered. For more information on Islands Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation, please visit www.islandsnr.com.
About Physician-Patient Alliance for Health and Safety
Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety is ranked internationally as a top-100 patient safety organization (Agilience Authority Index, August 2023) and is a national advocacy force for addressing patient health and safety priorities shared by patients, physicians, regulators, and industry. PPAHS seeks to ensure that the best medications, medical inventions, and technology that can improve care and reduce costs are employed. PPAHS works to advance patient health and safety by developing and highlighting best practices and recommendations through better use and application of clinical practices and experiences, information technologies and checklists, and healthcare information. As a voice in support of ideas and innovation that can improve care, we encourage a health ecosystem that fosters a culture of patient safety. For more about PPAHS, please visit www.ppahs.org.
“From the start, this process has been about working with Hoag to find new answers to the challenges facing modern healthcare,” says LPA Principal Dan Heinfeld. “Hoag is committed to breaking the paradigm to find better ways to serve patients.”
The new campus will include specialty care institutes for surgical innovation, cancer, and digestive and women’s health, in addition to dedicated urgent care services for cancer patients. Six new buildings will house 155 inpatient beds, eight operating rooms, 24 ICU beds, and 120,000 square feet of ambulatory facilities. Throughout the campus, outdoor spaces will provide environments for therapies and meditation, including numerous healing gardens programmed to create unique and meaningful experiences for patients and caregivers.
LPA’s integrated design team of architects, engineers, interior designers and landscape architects worked with Hoag to layer the buildings with outdoor space, maximizing opportunities for patients, providers and families to access the natural environment. Daylight and views of the lushly landscaped gardens are provided in all patient rooms, staff respite zones, family areas, and communal spaces. Patients will be able to receive a continuum of care for complex issues without having to leave the site.
Hoag broke ground last September on the new facility, which is named in recognition of the support of Diana and David Sun, who donated $50 million toward the project.
“LPA’s integrated team helped us to explore the full spectrum of patient care,” Hoag president and CEO Robert Braithwaite said. “The design honored the concept of adjacent specialty facilities that support the continuum of whole-person care.”
The design has already been “a major recruitment tool” for attracting top talent to Hoag, Braithwaite said.
The Sun Family Campus is designed to confront many of the challenges facing modern healthcare, focusing on a patient-centric approach that addresses diverse aspects of health and wellness to improve patient outcomes. Research has illustrated a direct link between the built and natural environments for quicker healing, healthier patients and reduced hospital stays.
“The connection to nature encourages the healing process and elevates mood,” says LPA Director of Healthcare Muhsin Lihony. “This simple truth altered the way we looked at the Hoag Irvine campus and guided our environmental approach.”
Hoag and LPA designers considered every aspect of the patient experience during the design process, from personalized care to the way the spaces make people feel. Biophilia and connections to nature are integrated throughout the campus. Travertine stone and warm wood toned panels provide a “high-touch” material palette to soften the “high-tech” aspects of Hoag’s cutting-edge healthcare capabilities.
“We want to counter-balance the high stress of high-tech environments, like being inside an MRI machine, with elements that address the patients’ basic needs,” says LPA Design Director Franco Brown. “Every building, every floor offers patients soothing ‘high-touch’ moments that bring them back to the familiar.”
With the construction of the first phase underway, the Sun Family Campus is expected to open to patients in 2026. The construction team includes program manager Jacobs, construction manager HB&A, and general contractor McCarthy Building Companies. KPFF and tk1sc are design consultants.
About LPA
LPA Design Studios is a multi-discipline firm focused on collaboration, inclusion and an integrated design process that connects building performance and design excellence. Founded in 1965, the firm’s mission is to deliver timeless, sustainable designs that benefit the environment, generate lasting value, enrich the human experience, and ensure a better future. With six studios in California and Texas, LPA’s team includes more than 400 in-house architects, master planners, engineers, interior designers, landscape architects and research analysts, working across a wide array of sectors. In 2021, LPA was honored as AIA California’s Firm of the Year, the organization’s highest annual honor for an architectural firm. For more information, visit lpadesignstudios.com.
In recognition of its innovative solutions, Zappix received the prestigious “Most Innovative Healthcare Company” and “Top Patient Experience Solution Provider” awards in 2023, specifically highlighting the Zappix Digital Patient Engagement solution. This groundbreaking solution has empowered Zappix’s healthcare clients, significantly reducing no-shows and late cancellations, enhancing staff efficiency through workflow automation, and improving patient access.
Throughout the year, Zappix continued to expand its portfolio, adding significant capabilities to the Digital Outreach and Digital Agent Assist products and strengthening the platform’s operability, security, and maintainability.
Zappix is poised for continued success in 2024, leveraging strategic partnerships and direct engagements to serve both existing and new clients. The company remains committed to enhancing customer experiences, reducing costs, automating workflows, and driving efficiencies and revenue.
About Zappix Zappix provides an AI-Powered Digital Engagement Platform. Zappix transforms the user journey during customer service interactions – engaging through Digital Outreach, deflecting inbound inquiries using Digital Self-service (Visual IVR), and optimizing agents’ activities using Digital Agent Assist. The cloud-based platform enables workflow automation, rapid developments, and integration to back-end systems and provides an actionable Analytics Suite. The Zappix solution provides significant benefits and ROI: reducing costs by increasing containment rates for contact centers, improving customer experience and Net Promoter Score (NPS), creating new revenue opportunities using targeted promotional banners, and automating revenue-generating use cases.
