COVID-19 has been a terrible tragedy that has put many people in a position where they can’t afford food. I couldn’t just sit back and watch my community suffer when I have the means to give them well-balanced meals

ATLANTA (PRWEB)
June 11, 2020

Eat Clean Bro, a healthy meal preparation and delivery service, has been using the tools at its disposal to provide for those in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since early April, the company has been working hard to donate a grand total of over 1,000 meals to various businesses and establishments across Atlanta and surrounding cities. This impressive number continues to grow, as Eat Clean Bro is continuing to donate 180 meals to the Tillman House Resource Center for Food Insecure Families in Smyrna on a weekly basis.

Jamie Giovinazzo, President and Founder of Eat Clean Bro, explained his decision to donate such an extensive amount of meals to the community: “My team and I specialize in creating meals that don’t just taste good, but are good for you. We believe that everyone should be able to eat well, no matter their circumstances. COVID-19 has been a terrible tragedy that has put many people in a position where they can’t afford food. I couldn’t just sit back and watch my community suffer when I have the means to give them well-balanced meals. No one should have to worry about an empty stomach during times like these. My team and I are doing everything we can to provide relief to those less fortunate, as well as to the people who are giving their all to keep everyone safe and healthy during this time.”

As Eat Clean Bro continues its efforts to keep the community fed, here is a timeline of their hard work over the past couple months:

• April 6th – Food donation to the Ronald McDonald House to feed all of the families currently being housed at the Emory location.
• April 12th – Lunch donation with enough food for two meals for the firefighters and crew at Dekalb County Fire Station 19.
• April 19th – Lunch donation to the staff at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Radiology Department.
• April 21st – Lunch donation to the entire Chamblee Police Department.
• May 12th – Lunch donation with enough food for two meals for the firefighters and crew at Dekalb County Fire Station 15.
• May 14th – Lunch donation for all of the staff at the VA Hospital.
• May 26th – Lunch donation with enough food for two meals for the firefighters and crew at Dekalb County Fire Station 15.

About Eat Clean Bro

As a meal preparation and delivery service, Eat Clean Bro is a rising company in the industry. With pickup, delivery, and shipping options for their wide range of prepared meals, Eat Clean Bro works to provide fast and convenient service for people who are looking to improve their diet. With a diverse team of chefs, dietitians, and culinary professionals, the company as a whole is working hard to keep the community fed during these difficult times.

Eat Clean Bro has been featured in two separate WSBTV articles highlighting restaurants offering curbside pick-up, take-out, discount codes, and free delivery, as well as local Atlanta businesses helping frontline workers. Their support for food and nutrition businesses in the community has also been showcased in Best Self Magazine, and they have been included in the AJC Acts of Kindness spotlight too.

To learn more about Eat Clean Bro, please visit: https://eatcleanbro.com/

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We are always looking for new ways to help our members lead a healthy and active lifestyle with classes that cater to their workout needs. This new Fusion Class is perfect for clients who need a fun and engaging way to work out their core and upper body and want to incorporate cardio into the mix.

MARIETTA, Ga. (PRWEB)
June 11, 2020

Sculpted Body, a Lagree Fitness studio located in East Cobb, GA, is now offering a new Fusion Class every Thursday at 10:30 AM. Angie Callahan, an expert with small group instruction and one of the newest additions to the Sculpted Body team, will be leading this class. Clients interested in joining this new program can expect a 45-minute workout format which will be broken up into three 15-minute intervals. These three blocks will include: core, and upper body on the Megaformer and cardio off the machine.

Kathy Dickson, Owner of Sculpted Body, expressed her excitement over this new addition to her studio’s classes: “We are always looking for new ways to help our members lead a healthy and active lifestyle with classes that cater to their workout needs. This new Fusion Class is perfect for clients who need a fun and engaging way to work out their core and upper body and want to incorporate cardio into the mix. Angie’s skills are a great fit for this class, and we can’t wait to see what our members think about it.”

As Sculpted Body expands its reach with this new class option, the studio has also added new instructors to help balance the increase in members and clients. These new fitness instructors are Angie Callahan and Victoria Bradley. With rotating schedules, clients interested in Angie’s classes can see her at the studio during the following class times:

• Tuesdays at 8:30 and 9:30 AM
• Thursdays at 10:30 AM
• Every other Saturday at 8:30 AM

For clients interested in taking classes from Victoria, members can sign up for her classes on:

• Mondays at 7:30 AM
• Thursdays at 5:15 PM and 6:15 PM

About Angie Callahan

Originally from Green Bay, Wisconsin, Angie is an ACE Certified Personal Trainer, and is also certified as a Les Mills GRIT coach. She has been teaching classes at Sculpted Body since November. Her positive attitude and encouraging teaching style work well to keep the energy levels up in her small group classes.

About Victoria Bradley

Victoria has been active her entire life, with experience in gymnastics, swimming, martial arts, and kickboxing. She is also a certified nutritionist and personal trainer. As an instructor she is an excellent motivator to her students, encouraging clients to challenge themselves during her workouts. For members who want to push their limits and achieve more from their fitness regime, Victoria is the perfect choice for a teacher.

About Sculpted Body

In business for 8 years, Sculpted Body is a certified Lagree Fitness studio offering classes on the Megaformer. A small boutique studio Sculpted Body has only 8 spaces per class allowing for personalized hands on instruction. These 50 minute full body classes are core based and high intensity but low impact. With modifications available to the exercises, all fitness levels are welcome. Sculpted Body’s small group sessions offer personalized assistance in a positive and encouraging environment. For those not comfortable in a group setting they also offer private sessions. To learn more about Sculpted Body, the Megaformer and Lagree Fitness visit: https://sculptedbodyatl.com/

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Healthcare disparities exist in America that result in Black Americans receiving less or poorer care than others.

HOUSTON (PRWEB)
June 11, 2020

Across the United States, Americans are calling for change. They are calling for equality and reform. They are calling for fair treatment and equal rights. They are calling for a just system. Currently, the focus is on the relationship between the black community and law enforcement. A new information repository hopes to highlight the larger and more deadly disparity in the quality of healthcare that Black Americans receive compared to other Americans.    

The current protests and calls for reform are reasonable and overdue. It is beyond dispute that Black Americans are proportionally more likely than white Americans to be injured by police. But custodial injuries are not the only disparities that exist in the U.S. Healthcare disparities exist in America that result in Black Americans receiving less or poorer care than others.    

Healthcare Disparities in America

Healthcare disparities exist in emergency care, diagnostics, prescriptions, prenatal care and nursing home care. The cause of those disparities can be labeled as economic, social or implicit bias. In the end they all lead inexorably to worse healthcare for men and women of color. Consider these facts:

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  Across healthcare measures, researchers find that black Americans receive worse care than white Americans 40% of the time.
• Black patients have worse access to care than whites for one-third of core healthcare measures.
• Black patients have the highest death rate and shortest survival rate for most cancers.
• Black women who develop breast cancer are less likely to be diagnosed early than white women.
• Black patients are twice as likely to die from liver or stomach cancer than white patients.
• Black patients are much more likely to die from stroke or heart disease.
• Black adults are 60% more likely to have a stroke than white adults.
• Minorities have significantly less access to mental health services.
• The infant mortality rate among black mothers is 2.4 times higher than among white mothers.
• The black community is significantly underrepresented in cancer trials compared to their peers. Because of this, cancer and mortality rates remain disproportionately high.

Learn More about Healthcare Disparities in America

If you would like to learn more about healthcare disparities in America, visit Brown, Christie & Green’s healthcare disparities information repository. This repository is a comprehensive resource providing you complimentary access to:

• PDFs of various academic and professional research studies and literature reviews.
• Links to online resources that identify healthcare disparities and offer valuable information.
• Links to online resources that discuss specific healthcare disparities plaguing the American healthcare system.
• News sources.

Knowledge is a powerful tool for change. The more knowledge that Americans have of the disparities that exist in our society, the more equipped we are to make positive changes toward equality and healthcare equity.

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UA Warehouse Worker

Providing a safe environment where our customers can comfortably shop is the absolute least we can do for our healthcare heroes.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (PRWEB)
June 11, 2020

Uniform Advantage (UA), a multi-channel retailer of medical uniforms for medical and hospitality industries, has implemented new safety measures and protocols for its Corporate Office, Fulfillment, and Retail teams.

UA has reopened its retail stores nationwide while implementing new safety measures that include: requiring customers to wear a face mask and sanitize their hands upon entry, cleaning fitting rooms and bathrooms after each use, instituting a two day quarantine for all merchandise that has been tried on, as well as requiring staff to undergo health screenings at the beginning of each shift. In addition, sneeze guards have been installed at cash wraps and safety liaisons have been tasked with limiting the number of customers in store, while ensuring they adhere to the new protocols.

“Our customers are the very individuals on the front lines of this pandemic, and we can’t help but to be proud of the selfless work they undertake,” said Laura DiFeterici, Director of Retail Operations. “Providing a safe environment where they can comfortably shop is the absolute least we can do for our healthcare heroes.”

Similarly, employees at Uniform Advantage’s Fulfillment Center have been equipped with personal protective gear and hand sanitizing stations have been available throughout the facility, while environmental services have been doubled to promote cleanliness between shifts.

Corporate office team members, who are able to do so, have been empowered to work remotely from home, while Uniform Advantage’s headquarters in downtown Fort Lauderdale is open for essential duties.

For more information on Uniform Advantage and their response to COVID-19 visit give.uniformadvantage.com.

About Uniform Advantage                                     

Uniform Advantage has represented style, quality and, above all, customer satisfaction for more than 30 years. As the first division of UA Brands, the chain was launched with a single South Florida store in 1985. Today, the company operates 29 retail locations in key markets across the U.S.; e-commerce and print catalog divisions; plus, designs and manufactures its own proprietary healthcare apparel lines. The company’s corporate office is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with a distribution center near Atlanta, Georgia. Learn more at http://www.UniformAdvantage.com or by calling 800-283-8708.

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Payam Jarrah-Nejad, M.D., F.I.C.S., F.A.C.S., aka Dr. J.

Even without a global pandemic bacterial and viral threats remain a real potential threat that all surgeons must routinely guard against.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (PRWEB)
June 10, 2020

A June 3 article on Medical Dialogues discusses efforts by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) to disseminate information on new best practices to protect the public as elective surgeries are resumed during the current phase of the COVID-19 pandemic; the organization, the article says, is also working to ensure that plastic surgery offices are well-stocked with personal protective equipment (PPE). Payam Jarrah-Nejad, M.D., F.I.C.S., F.A.C.S., a long-time active ASPS member who is known to colleagues and patients as Dr. J, applauds the organization’s efforts to ensure that its membership is well-informed and well supplied. He adds, however, that patients should be reassured that, even under ordinary circumstances, his office has always taken extraordinary steps to ensure maximum safety for both patients and staff.

Even without a global pandemic, says Dr. J, bacterial and viral threats remain a real potential threat that all surgeons must routinely guard against, and safety measures to prevent all sorts of infections are a standard part of medical training. The difference, says Dr. J, is that — unlike most common illnesses — there is a no certain amount of immunity to COVID-19 in the community at large and the impacts of even one person becoming infected can have tragic repercussions as they infect those around them. He notes that, as a result, responsible physicians of all kinds are instituting enhanced measures to guard against the transmission of any and all microbial illnesses.

To that end, Dr. J notes that his team has been taking steps to ensure that everyone at his clinic — both staff members and patients — are wearing masks at all times while also limiting the number of people who are present in his offices. Of course, patients who are suffering from a variety of possible COVID-19 symptoms are asked to delay visits until after a full recovery. He also says that patients are being screened for signs of COVID-19 before entering. Dr. J is also reducing the number of physical visits by conducting many consultations virtually.

Dr. J. notes that the Medical Dialogues article also reports on the results of an ASPS survey that indicates that Americans are still positively disposed toward plastic surgeries generally. He adds that, while being cautious is definitely called for as some distancing measures are being gradually relaxed, patients who have a serious interest in procedures such as facelifts, rhinoplasty, and breast augmentation need not wait to start speaking to a plastic surgeon to learn more and to see if a procedure makes sense for them.

Interested readers can call (310) 228-3151 to learn more. Dr. J’s qualifications as a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon double-board certified by both the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery can be seen online.

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