COATESVILLE, Pa. (PRWEB)
March 22, 2020

COVID-19 (also known as SARS-CoV-2, 2019-nCoV, and “Novel Coronavirus”) has profoundly affected the daily lives of people across the globe. In recent weeks, COVID-19 has unexpectedly ingrained itself into the constant and persistent thoughts of American citizens and Medical Professionals alike. As such, MTI Dental has adapted its operations and processes to be as flexible and resilient as possible, while not only maintaining stringent manufacturing and product safety guidelines, but also increasing such measures to ensure the utmost quality and safety standards for both staff and customers.

From the moment COVID-19 jumped from its first U.S. city to its second, the Leadership Team recognized the need to enhance existing meticulous and longstanding safety standards, in the event the situation became more widespread.

Dental Professionals are most susceptible to potential exposure to spreading of COVID-19, especially Hygienists and Dentists.

MTI Dental fully supports the ADA in recommending that all non-emergency (non-essential) dental procedures be rescheduled until further notice. If your practice is still scheduling patients during this vulnerable time, PLEASE AUTOCLAVE YOUR HANDPIECES BETWEEN EACH AND EVERY PATIENT. Alcohol wipes do not provide nearly as effective a sanitization result as an autoclave and will do nothing to kill the infectious contagions within the handpiece. The simple practice of sterilization has never been so critical in preventing and spreading contagions.

Surfaces used to store or temporarily place handpieces, tools, and/or accessories should be cleaned immediately between patients. Reports from the CDC indicate that COVID-19 can stay viable in the air in the form of micro-droplets for up to 3 hours.

COVID-19 can also remain viable on most surfaces for 3 hours or more, most notably:

• Up to 4 Hours on Copper
• Up to 24 Hours on Cardboard
• Up to 3 Days on Plastics and Stainless Steel

Additional information about MTI Dental products can be referenced on the website (mtidental.com), and is available even if team members are not available to immediately answer calls or emails.

The goal during this crisis, is to assist the global community in slowing down the spread of COVID-19 through ensuring a safe and healthy workplace for team members, while also providing uninterrupted service to customers, group practices, and distributor partners.

In this effort, MTI Dental has committed to the following modifications to Operations:

• Additional Hygiene-Focused Policies Have Been Activated                 
• How Team Members Transition Between Shifts Have Been Modified
• Social Distancing Policies
• Flexible Policies Related to Additional Time Off
• Ability for Team Members to Work Remotely
• Increased Cleanings for Office and Manufacturing Facilities

Consistent and dependable service is incredibly important to MTI Dental and its clients, however, accountability and responsibility to the health of team members supersedes all else. MTI Dental is aware that many of its customers may have critical dental procedures that cannot be postponed, and is dedicated to doing its part in supporting dental practices with the necessary handpieces, tools, and accessories to perform those procedures.

Like many other American businesses, MTI Dental is settling into the “new normal,” but is steadfast in its resolve to provide customers with the products and service necessary to get through this crisis.

“Be pragmatic and stay positive.”

About MTI Dental:

As an American manufacturer with over 40 years of expertise in producing precision dental handpieces and tools, MTI Dental offers customers dependable and quality-focused products in a market saturated with aftermarket, gray label, and non-compliant equipment. Featuring industry leading designs, warranties, and 5-Star customer service, MTI Dental prides itself on not being just sales people – we are proud American manufacturers.

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WILMINGTON, Del. (PRWEB)
March 21, 2020

The Healthcare Compliance Symposium 2020 will bring professionals from the healthcare and legal communities together for a day of live discussion and learning online. Experts will provide helpful insight on a variety of timely topics including patient advocacy and ethics, telemedicine, whistleblower laws, the role of boards, fraud, waste and abuse, and privacy and security laws while instructing and leading interactive discussions among attendees to answer common questions and provide practical tips.

Attorneys, compliance officers, managers, nurses, medical assistants, healthcare professionals, business associates, and students are encouraged to attend. This online learning event has been reviewed and approved for 7.5 Continuing Education Unit(s) by PAHCOM and 7.5 continuing education unit(s) by Practice Management Institute®. The Compliance Certification Board (CCB)® has approved this event for up to 9.6 live CCB CEUs. Continuing Education Units are awarded based on individual attendance records. Granting of prior approval in no way constitutes endorsement by CCB of this event content or of the event sponsor. Attendees are eligible to receive 7.0 CLE credits including 1 ethics credit in New Jersey. Attendees are eligible to receive 7 distance learning CLE credits in Pennsylvania including 1 ethics credit. Updates are pending for Delaware CLE credits at this time.

The symposium is a joint effort to provide resources for professionals facing the challenges of the ever-changing healthcare industry. The full-day event will be held on April 23, 2020, with online access for virtual attendance. Registration is open and available throughout the United States.

About Delaware Law School: Widener University is a metropolitan university that connects curricula to social issues through civic engagement. Dynamic teaching, active scholarship, personal attention, applied leadership, and experiential learning are key components of the Widener experience. Delaware Law School is the First State’s only law school, providing a Juris doctor, legal graduate and paralegal degree programs with an emphasis on developing legal professionals who reflect the Delaware Way and its traditions of civility, integrity and mutual respect. The school offers signature programs in corporate and business law, environmental law, family health law and policy, trial advocacy, and dignity rights.

About First Healthcare Compliance: Founded in 2012 by a nurse attorney, the First Healthcare Compliance software solution creates confidence among compliance professionals through education, resources, and support in the areas of HIPAA, OSHA, human resources compliance, and fraud waste and abuse laws. Serving clients across the United States, the company’s evolving platform provides real-time insight for board reporting and across multiple locations. For more information please visit https://1sthcc.com/

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SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (PRWEB)
March 21, 2020

On March 19, 2020 Amramp installed a wheelchair ramp to provide access to the new Health Screening Trailer Triage at Adventist Health Simi Valley. The ramp and platforms helped access the large intake triage trailer in the parking lot.

Amramp Los Angeles is considered to be an essential service as we install ramps that provide access to medical facilities and individual homes. This service enables patients to be discharged to their homes so that the hospital bed might be used by someone with COVID 19 symptoms.

Amramp provided commercial ramping to allow access to this triage facility trailer container using a 5 x 7’ platform, a 6 x 5’ platform and 22’ of 48” wide commercial ramping.

Amramp provides wheelchair ramps, lifts and other accessibility equipment for commercial and residential residents to provide access to buildings and homes.

Amramp is the leading company in the United States specializing in modular steel wheelchair ramps, offering sturdy, customizable ramps for disability access that enable the aging and disabled population to remain in their homes with independence and mobility. Ramps can be installed temporarily for short or long-term needs without damaging the housing structure as they are not a permanent modification to the home. Amramp products comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and are available for sale or rental with no minimum time frame and no ramp size restrictions.

Amramp also installs Vertical Platform Lifts which are used where the length of a ramp might be impractical. Portable wheelchair showers are used when a client cannot utilize the shower or tub facility and does not want to remodel the bathroom.

Amramp has been providing accessibility ramps, vertical platform lifts, stair chairs and wheelchair showers in Southern and Northern California since May, 2007 and has eight employees. Warehouse facilities are located in Gardena and Watsonville, CA. See http://www.amramp.com/laoc and http://www.amramp.com/norcal.

Service areas include Los Angeles, Burbank, Glendale, Altadena, Pasadena, Cerritos, Chatsworth, Covina, West Covina, Culver City, Diamond Bar, Downey, El Monte, Encino, Gardena, Glendora, Granada Hills, Hacienda Heights, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Huntington Park, Hermosa Beach, La Puente, Lakewood, Lawndale, Lomita, Long Beach, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, Hollywood, North Hollywood, West Hollywood, Northridge, Pacific Palisades, Palos Verdes, Pomona, Rancho Palos Verdes, San Dimas, San Fernando, San Pedro, Torrance, Valencia, Santa Clarita, Van Nuys, Valley Village, West Hills and Woodland Hills, Aliso Viejo, Anaheim, Buena Park, Brea, Corona Del Mar, Irvine, Dana Point, Fullerton, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach, Laguna Niguel, Lake Forest, Newport Beach, Orange, Placentia, San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano, Westminster, Tustin, Yorba Linda, Riverside,, Corona, Moreno Valley, San Bernardino, Redlands, Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, Camarillo, Moorpark, Oxnard, Santa Paula, Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks, Ventura and Westlake Village, San Jose, Santa Clara, Campbell, Saratoga, Los Gatos, Cupertino, Gilroy, Los Altos, Milpitas, Morgan Hill, Mountain View, Almaden, Palo Alto, Stanford, Sunnyvale, Belmont, Burlingame, Daly City, Half Moon Bay, Loma Mar, Menlo Park, Milbrae, Moss Beach, Pacifica, Portola Valley, Redwood City, San Bruno, San Carlos, South San Francisco, San Mateo, Aptos, Capitola, Felton, Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley, Soquel, Watsonville, Freedom, Contra Costa, San Ramon, Walnut Creek, Pleasant Hill, Concord, Dan Ville, Castro Valley, San Leandro, Hayward, Alameda, Oakland, Berkeley, Union City, San Leandro, San Rafael and El Cerrito.

INDIANAPOLIS (PRWEB)
March 20, 2020

Early praise for INSPIREd Healthcare: A Value-Based Care Coordination Model

“INSPIREd Healthcare is a brilliant case study in ‘hope’ for the American healthcare system. Billie Allard and her team have creatively hacked through the thicket of financial reimbursement, bureaucracy, and culture to forge a clear path to value-based, quality care. Follow them!”

–Kathleen Bartholomew, MN, RN

Nurse Leader, Author, and Speaker

“Nurses represent the largest segment of the healthcare workforce and are present in almost every environment in which healthcare is delivered. For true healthcare reform to take place, nurses must be active co-leaders, and the INSPIRE Model demonstrates this leadership. This well-organized book, full of resources, will guide you in using clear recommendations and best practices, with real examples that lead to impressive results. An inspiring book by a truly remarkable nurse leader.”

–Amanda Stefancyk Oberlies, PhD, MBA, RN

Chief Executive Officer

Organization of Nurse Leaders – MA, RI, NH, CT, VT

As healthcare costs continue to outpace the economy, healthcare systems are shifting from fee-for-service to a value-based payment system to deliver high-quality care and reduce costs. This shift presents an opportunity for nurses to take the lead in transforming care delivery and improve patient experience while reducing costs.

Filled with practical content for both clinical and academic settings, INSPIREd Healthcare follows author Billie Lynn Allard and her team of nurses as they successfully implement an accountable community of health in pursuit of the Triple Aim goals: improving patient experience of care, improving health of populations, and reducing per capita healthcare costs. The INSPIRE Model they follow provides an evidence-based blueprint for other healthcare systems hoping to solve the complicated problems surrounding care transitions and health promotion.

“There is a pathway to success for value-based payment that empowers nurses to take the reins to deliver value based, person-centered care,” said author Billie Lynn Allard, MS, RN, FAAN. “It will be the most rewarding work of your career!”

For an excerpt and other supplemental materials, visit https://sigma.nursingrepository.org/handle/10755/18280.

This book is available for purchase at SigmaMarketplace.org/SigmaBooks.

INSPIREd Healthcare: A Value-Based Care Coordination Model

By Billie Lynn Allard, MS, RN, FAAN

Published by Sigma, 2020

ISBN-13: 9781948057295

EPUB ISBN: 9781948057301

PDF ISBN: 9781948057318

MOBI ISBN: 9781948057325

Price: US $59.95

Trade paperback, 536 pages

Trim size: 7 3/8 x 9 1/8

About the author:

Billie Lynn Allard, MS, RN, FAAN, is the Administrative Director of Population Health and Transitions of Care at Southwestern Vermont Health Care. As an exceptional nursing leader for the past 35 years, Allard has spent her career leading innovation in community hospital settings, serving as Director of Cardiopulmonary Nursing, Director of the Emergency Department, and Chief Nursing Officer. Her visionary leadership style inspired nurses to function at the height of their capabilities, achieving 100% certification, implementing cutting-edge evidence-based practice, transforming care delivery, and improving patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes. In the past decade, Allard has led the implementation of an Accountable Community of Health as part of an all payer model in Vermont.

About Sigma:

The Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is advancing world health and celebrating nursing excellence in scholarship, leadership, and service. Founded in 1922, Sigma has more than 135,000 active members in over 90 countries and territories. Members include practicing nurses, instructors, researchers, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and others. Sigma’s more than 530 chapters are located at more than 700 institutions of higher education throughout Armenia, Australia, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, England, Eswatini, Ghana, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Malawi, Mexico, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, the United States, and Wales.

Curtis McMurtrey, Ph.D., Director of Immuno-Proteomics at Pure MHC

With OU, we are acquiring the actual COVID-19 virus, and we will infect cells and look for the targets on the infected cells. We will use those targets to either develop a vaccine or to directly target them with something like monoclonal antibodies.

AUSTIN, Texas and OKLAHOMA CITY (PRWEB)
March 20, 2020

OUHSC and Pure MHC have launched a research collaboration to work toward the development of a vaccine for the COVID-19 virus. The scientific team is led by William Hildebrand, Ph.D., whose expertise is helping the body’s protective immune cells target and kill virus-infected cells. He will be working with Pure MHC, part of a family of biotechnology companies formed, funded and managed by Austin, TX based Emergent Technologies, Inc. (ETI). Approximately 20 years ago, ETI commercialized and advanced Hildebrand’s and others’ research to develop breakthrough drugs and therapies. This partnership represents a unique collaboration between researchers in a university setting and a company with the scientific expertise and investment to further the project.

Hildebrand’s research career has focused on a crucial component of vaccine development: creating targets that help the immune system’s T-cells find and kill virus-infected cells. Because COVID-19 is an entirely new virus, the body’s immune system has not been trained to recognize it. Hildebrand’s research discoveries could provide a target for a potential vaccine.

“The body’s T-cells are able to distinguish virus-infected cells from healthy cells and, for the most part, they are able to eliminate infected cells without harming healthy cells,” Hildebrand said. “However, with COVID-19, our T-cells have not been prepared to recognize this coronavirus, and the disease is able to get a foothold before our immune system is able to catch up to it. What we want to do is to prepare our cells in advance, just as the body uses the flu vaccine – it gets your immune system ready to target the flu. Our role is to identify the targets that mark COVID-19, and then steer the T-cells to those targets using a vaccine.”

Hildebrand has been working on this type of target discovery technology for nearly three decades. He successfully discovered a target that allows T-cells to protect against the West Nile Virus, as well as a cancer target that allows T-cells to kill the malignant cells in melanoma. Now his charge is to discover the target for COVID-19.

For that work, the OU Health Sciences Center brings an important resource to the collaboration with Pure MHC: a Biosafety Laboratory-3, one of the safest and most specialized laboratories for working with infectious diseases. The laboratory ensures a high level of protection for research personnel because they will be working with the live virus.

“With OU, we are acquiring the actual COVID-19 virus, and we will infect cells and look for the targets on the infected cells,” said Curtis McMurtrey, Ph.D., Director of Immuno-Proteomics for Pure MHC and a graduate of the OU Health Sciences Center. “We will use those targets to either develop a vaccine or to directly target them with something like monoclonal antibodies.”

“Because the OU Health Sciences Center and Pure MHC have been working together on similar projects for over 20 years, they are uniquely positioned to quickly develop a target for COVID-19”, said Tommy Harlan, founder, chairman and CEO of Emergent Technologies, Inc., the technology commercialization company that manages Pure MHC. Harlan said he founded his company specifically to find and commercialize early-stage discoveries so they can positively affect human health and disease.

“After 20 years of working with Dr. Hildebrand and the OU Health Sciences Center, and through our commercial entity Pure MHC, we are positioned to pursue this discovery project very quickly at a time when speed is important,” Harlan said. “It all lines up at a time when society needs help with this devastating disease.”

Such partnerships are key to the university moving its discoveries into the marketplace, said James Tomasek, Ph.D., Vice President for Research at the OU Health Sciences Center. In 1998, the state of Oklahoma passed two state questions that allowed academic research to be transformed into start-up biotech companies. Tomasek, along with the university’s Office of Technology Commercialization, assist researchers in preparing their science for outside licensing and investment.

“The partnership between the OU Health Sciences Center and Pure MHC, a company developed from OU Health Sciences Center technology and housed at University Research Park in Oklahoma City, demonstrates how discoveries can be taken from the lab to the marketplace to address critical healthcare needs, like developing a vaccine for COVID-19,” Tomasek said.

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OU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER

One of nation’s few academic health centers with seven professional colleges — Allied Health, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Graduate Studies — the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center serves approximately 4,000 students in more than 70 undergraduate and graduate degree programs on campuses in Oklahoma City and Tulsa. For more information, visit http://www.ouhsc.com.

OU MEDICINE

OU Medicine — along with its academic partner, the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center — is the state’s only comprehensive academic health system of hospitals, clinics and centers of excellence. With 11,000 employees and more than 1,300 physicians and advanced practice providers, OU Medicine is home to Oklahoma’s largest physician network with a complete range of specialty care. OU Medicine serves Oklahoma and the region with the state’s only freestanding children’s hospital, the only National Cancer Institute-Designated Stephenson Cancer Center and Oklahoma’s flagship hospital, which serves as the state’s only Level 1 trauma center. OU Medicine is the No. 1 ranked hospital system in Oklahoma, and its oncology program at Stephenson Cancer Center and OU Medical Center ranked in the Top 50 in the nation, in the 2019-2020 rankings released by U.S. News & World Report. OU Medicine was also ranked by U.S. News & World Report as high performing in four specialties: Ophthalmology in partnership with Dean McGee Eye Institute, Colon Surgery, COPD and Congestive Heart Failure. OU Medicine’s mission is to lead healthcare in patient care, education and research. To learn more, visit http://www.oumedicine.com.

Pure MHC

Pure MHC, LLC is a platform technology company funded and managed by Emergent Technologies, Inc. with expertise in disease-specific target identification and validation as well as immunotherapeutic drug development for cancer, infectious and autoimmune diseases and allergy. The Pure MHC target discovery technology was developed by Chief Scientist William Hildebrand, Ph.D., of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. For more information, visit http://www.puremhc.com.

Emergent Technologies

Emergent Technologies, Inc. is an innovation solutions and technology commercialization leader headquartered in Austin, Texas. For more information visit http://www.etibio.com.

AUSTIN, Texas (PRWEB)
March 19, 2020

Inc. magazine today revealed that Insogna CPA is No. 171 on its inaugural Inc. 5000 Series: Texas list of The Most Inspiring Companies in Texas. The most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing Texas-based private companies. Born of the annual Inc. 5000 franchise, this regional list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the Texas economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent small businesses.

“We are very excited to be recognized by Inc. Magazine”, said Chase Insogna, Founder and CEO of Insogna CPA. “Our educated team of experienced professionals work diligently every day to serve our valued customers, which has led to significant year-over-year growth at Insogna CPA”, he continued. “We are extremely proud of our team’s dedication and look forward to the continued growth of the company and providing valuable expertise to our customers.”

The companies included in this list show stunning rates of growth across all industries in Texas with an average growth rate of 294 percent, employing 36,000 people and adding $11 billion to the Texas economy. Companies based in the largest metro areas Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio brought in the highest revenue overall. A full list of companies included in the Inc. 5000 2019 may be found here: inc.com/inc5000-series-texas-2020.

“The companies on this list demonstrate just how much the small-business sector impacts Texas’s economy,” says Inc. Editor in Chief, Scott Omelianuk. “Across every single industry, these businesses have posted revenue and growth rates that are beyond impressive, further proving the tenacity of their founders and CEOs.”

About Insogna CPA

Insogna CPA delivers an integrated team of experts dedicated to helping small businesses under $20M with year-around accounting, tax strategy and wealth building. We tailor customized monthly packages to help grow your business with you – and help with individual taxes too. Our highly-trained team of professionals use tech-savvy solutions to create efficiencies and provide expertly designed and transparent advisory, coaching, planning and strategy. Insogna CPA is a Dave Ramsey Endorsed Local Provider (ELP); Top50 Cloud Accounting Firm; Inc5000 Series-Most Inspiring Companies in Texas; Top3 Accounting Firm by LocalBest; Intuit QuickBooks Certified ProAdvisor; Xero Advisor Certified; Platinum-Austin Green Business Leader; Member-American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA; Member-Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants (TSCPA). For more information, please visit https://insognacpa.com/

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