With our new restaurant, Trece, we are fortunate to have the ability to prepare nutritious and delicious meals for those in need.

LAS VEGAS (PRWEB)
April 03, 2020

Planet 13 is proud to announce it will work in partnership with Clark County Social Services to donate 100 meals per day, Monday through Friday to vulnerable stay-at-home seniors and disabled residents.

“This has been a very difficult time for seniors who are at risk every time they leave their homes, and don’t have the means to pay for food delivery services,” said Bob Groesbeck, Planet 13 Co-CEO. “With our new restaurant, Trece, we are fortunate to have the ability to prepare nutritious and delicious meals for those in need. We would like to thank Clark County Chairperson Marilyn Kirkpatrick and Commissioner Tick Segerblom for allowing to us to contribute to their Senior Services program.”

“We are very grateful for Planet 13’s generous offer to provide healthy meals to vulnerable people each day in our community at no cost,” said Commissioner Segerblom, whose County Commission District E includes Planet 13’s dispensary. “We appreciate the contributions of their chef and kitchen staff to make this program possible for seniors and disabled residents who are at high risk of being exposed to coronavirus if they leave their homes.”

Trece’s ‘Chef Manny’ and his team will prepare approximately 2,000 meals in the month of April for local seniors who are being served by the county’s Homemaker Home Health Aide program which provides homemaking and personal care services to clients.

The goal of the program is to help clients and their family members maintain self-sufficiency and the ability to stay in their homes to reduce the need for custodial care, a particularly important mandate during Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak’s mandated Stay-at-Home directive.

About Planet 13

Planet 13 (http://www.planet13holdings.com) is a vertically integrated cannabis company based in Nevada, with award-winning cultivation, production and dispensary operations in Las Vegas – the entertainment capital of the world. Planet 13’s mission is to build a recognizable global brand known for world-class dispensary operations and a creator of innovative cannabis products. Planet 13’s common shares trade on the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) under the symbol PLTH and on the OTCQX under the symbol PLNHF.

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These forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions and estimates of management of the Company at the time such statements were made. Actual future results may differ materially as forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to materially differ from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors, among other things, include: final regulatory and other approvals or consents; fluctuations in general macroeconomic conditions; fluctuations in securities markets; expectations regarding the size of the Nevada cannabis market and changing consumer habits; the ability of the Company to successfully achieve its business objectives; plans for expansion; political and social uncertainties; inability to obtain adequate insurance to cover risks and hazards; and the presence of laws and regulations that may impose restrictions on cultivation, production, distribution and sale of cannabis and cannabis related products in the State of Nevada; and employee relations. Although the forward-looking statements contained in this news release are based upon what management of the Company believes, or believed at the time, to be reasonable assumptions, the Company cannot assure shareholders that actual results will be consistent with such forward-looking statements, as there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Readers should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements and information contained in this news release. The Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements of beliefs, opinions, projections, or other factors, should they change, except as required by law.

The Company is indirectly involved in the manufacture, possession, use, sale and distribution of cannabis in the recreational and medicinal cannabis marketplace in the United States through its subsidiary MMDC. Local state laws where MMDC operates permit such activities however, these activities are currently illegal under United States federal law. Additional information regarding this and other risks and uncertainties relating to the Company’s business are contained under the heading “Risk Factors” in the Company’s annual information form dated April 30, 2019 filed on its issuer profile on SEDAR at http://www.sedar.com.

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Our AgingChoices Guide was diligent about ensuring that our community was right for his client—who is now our resident. AgingChoices made such a difference in this man’s life, which was noticed by our staff and his family alike. Hattie Russell – Olympics West Senior Living

ROCKY HILL, Conn. (PRWEB)
April 03, 2020

AgingChoices is the latest innovation from LifeStyleCX, a women-owned business that was founded by Terri Sullivan and Brenda Limone based on their own experiences navigating the arduous process of finding senior living solutions for their loved ones. In shaping their company and its mission, these co-founders also draw on years of experience in the senior living and care industry.

AgingChoices.com features the Choice! Wizard©, the first and most comprehensive tool available to help users find senior living and care options that align with their needs and preferences. After completing a brief lifestyle survey, consumers receive a list of service providers in their area that most closely matches what they’re looking for.

Users have the opportunity to connect with an AgingChoices Guide who can introduce them to a home care provider or local market advisor in their area. These local experts know their markets well and can assist consumers. There is never a charge to seniors or their families, as fees are paid by the providers that benefit from the placements.

“After our own experiences, we realized there needs to be more clarity and transparency about senior living and care—that it really needs to be demystified,” said Terri Sullivan, Founder and CEO of AgingChoices. “Our mission is to provide unbiased educational information and useful tools that help aging adults and their families make decisions that they can feel good about,” Sullivan said.

“You can find more information online about hotel rooms than senior care options—and we want to change that,” said Brenda Limone, Co-founder and COO of AgingChoices.

The AgingChoices team strives to provide unbiased advice by offering customers options based on their physical and emotional needs, likes and dislikes, and goals for the next chapter of their lives—which is translated into actionable steps through their answers on the Choice Wizard.

“In this time of uncertainty, we hope to empower aging adults and their loved ones by providing them with the education, tools, and one-on-one support they need to plan for senior living and care—whether their timing is immediate or still down the road a bit,” Limone said.

LifeStyleCX based in Rocky Hill, CT. with an office in Cambridge, MA., educates consumers and helps match them with senior living and senior care options through AgingChoices.com. To learn more about the service AgingChoices provides, visit AgingChoices.com.

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The Haute Residence webinars look to inform real estate agents, brokers, and insiders on how best to navigate the current outlook of the industry as it adapts to COVID-19.

MIAMI (PRWEB)
April 03, 2020

As the world economy is adapting to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Haute Residence is hosting a series of live webinars on Zoom, featuring experts in real estate including leading developers, brokers, and real estate agents. Each has limited space; register soon in the links below to guarantee your space.

The real estate industry, like most if not all, has seen the Coronavirus have a gradual and strong impact on how its integrants operate and do business for the foreseeable future. The Haute Residence webinars look to inform real estate agents, brokers, and insiders on how best to navigate the current outlook of the industry as it adapts to COVID-19.

See the top names of the real estate world that will be joining Haute Residence next week below, each with their own point of view and market expertise.

The series starts on Monday, April 6th with Daniel de la Vega, President of ONE Sotheby’s International Realty. He recently oversaw the closing of the penthouse at One Thousand Museum by Zaha Hadid Architects purchased by David Beckham. REGISTER HERE.

On Tuesday, April 7th, FOX Business Network anchor Cheryl Casone will moderate a talk with Louis Birdman, developer of the aforementioned One Thousand Museum; Edgardo Defortuna, Founder and CEO of Fortune International Group; Jules Trump, developer of The Estates at Acqualina; and Michael Stern, Founder & CEO of JDS Development. REGISTER HERE.

Wednesday, April 8th, will feature the powerhouse real estate agents Oren and Tal Alexander, the sibling duo who just last month received top accolades from Douglas Elliman Real Estate for their top-performing numbers. REGISTER HERE.

For the brokerage point of view, tune in on Thursday, April 9th, to hear from CEO of Douglas Elliman Florida Brokerage Jay Parker. He leads the firm in Florida’s markets with a total of 21 offices and more than 1,100 agents. REGISTER HERE.

On Friday, April 10th, New York “Queen of Real Estate” Dolly Lenz and her daughter Jenny Lenz will be talking about the current outlook of real estate in the Big Apple. REGISTER HERE.

ABOUT HAUTE RESIDENCE

Haute Residence is a luxe digital platform for real estate and interior design connoisseurs. As a leading real estate, design and architectural platform, Haute Residence connects affluent readers with the most powerful and renowned agents, developers and designers. The elite, expert-curated platform offers the latest in real estate and design news, showcasing the world’s most extraordinary residences and projects on the market.

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Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Green Space, University of Maryland, College Park

“This question about dosage gets asked a lot, and what’s exciting to me is that we used to have to demonstrate that nature was restorative,” explains Naomi Sachs, UMD. “For the most part, those benefits are accepted. But now the question is: How does nature do this? How much? In what way?”

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (PRWEB)
April 03, 2020

In a new collaborative study out of the University of Maryland (UMD) and Cornell University, researchers find that as little as 10 minutes of leisure time experiencing nature can measurably improve your mental health and well-being. With suicide rates on the rise alongside increased urbanization, there has been a boom in recent research showcasing the positive health benefits of natural settings on mental and physical health markers. However, little work has been done to quantify the actual “dose” of nature you need to experience these effects. With this new paper published in Frontiers in Psychology, researchers are hoping to guide future research and establish dosages to help revolutionize what a prescription to reduce stress and improve mental health can look like, particularly among the highly stressed college student population.

“This question about dosage gets asked a lot, and what’s exciting to me is that we used to have to demonstrate that nature was restorative,” explains Naomi Sachs, assistant professor of Landscape Architecture at UMD. “For the most part, those benefits are accepted. But now the question is: How does nature do this? How much? In what way?”

In this scoping review of the current literature on the topic, Sachs and colleagues at Cornell have pulled together studies from around the world to help determine how much nature is the minimum dosage, and identify what the field needs to continue to answer these questions. As a larger goal, researchers hope to move towards a more holistic approach to health that prescribes time in nature alongside or as an alternative to traditional pharmacological options.

“We rely greatly in our culture on pharma approaches to both physical and mental health problems, and as we know, those medications come with very specific dosages,” says Donald Rakow, associate professor of horticulture at Cornell. “Until recently, there has been nothing analogous to prescribing time in nature, but this review helps move us in that direction.”

In fact, Rakow not only heads up a program called NatureRx@Cornell that directs students to particularly beautiful natural settings around campus for stress relief and mental wellbeing, but he also heads the Campus NatureRx Network of 20 colleges around the country and in Canada that are adopting similar programs, including UMD. At Cornell, health center practitioners are already prescribing time in nature as part of students’ electronic health records, and the goal is to do the same at UMD with our NatureRx@UMD program, led by Jennifer Roberts, assistant professor in the School of Public Health.

Roberts explains, “NatureRx@UMD is an initiative that emphasizes the benefits of the natural environments throughout and around the UMD campus in an effort to address the array of health and well-being issues faced by students and greater campus community. The rising trends in mental health issues, specifically suicide, among college students is presented as one of the many reasons for the need of NatureRx@UMD and the like across college campuses. The gains from NatureRx@UMD are both promising and endless.”

Rakow adds, “While our entire culture is showing evidence of increased stress, we feel that college students are particularly susceptible to psychologically related disorders: everything from the social isolation caused by social media, to intense competition, to grades and academic success, to financial vulnerability. These and other factors cause incredibly high stress among college aged students.”

According to Healthline, mental illness and stress levels among college students are reportedly high, with recent reports showing up to 40% of college students struggling with at least one diagnosable mental illness, and the rate of suicidal thoughts jumping to 11%. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students, spurring on UMD’s commitment to this type of research and programs like NatureRx.

“If a student can know that nature is good for them and has 10 minutes to go to lunch or get to class, they can choose to take a more nature rich path and pay a little bit more attention to their surroundings to be in that natural experience and get the benefits,” says Sachs. “And that benefit is not just an emotional benefit, it is also a cognitive benefit. Test scores improve, they can better retain and process information – all these things that college students really need.” Rakow adds, “Every campus, no matter how urban, has some greenspaces, and students and other members of the campus community just need to seek those out.”

UMD has many advantages as a green campus, including its distinction as a nationally recognized Arboretum & Botanical Garden. “The whole campus is an arboretum, which is amazing that we have that resource here,” says Sachs. With UMD striving to maintain a richly green campus among continued growth as an institution and added connectivity brought by the construction of a new DC metro line, this research can help give credence to initiatives like the AgroEcology Corridor. This multidisciplinary initiative spearheaded by the College of Agriculture & Natural Resources and supported across the university reimagines UMD’s campus as a living-learning environment prioritizing interactive and educational green space.

Meg Smolinski serves as outreach coordinator for the Arboretum & Botanical Gardens at UMD, and is on the UMD board for NatureRx. “There are countless studies citing the immense pressures college students face, but also an equal number of studies showing that time in nature can help alleviate stress. Our students have the benefit of living and studying in an award-winning arboretum. As part of the NatureRx team and a supporter of the AgroEcology Corridor, the Arboretum provides hands-on opportunities to plant a tree, grow vegetables, or simply take a walk with one of our arborists and learn about our campus ecosystem.”

One of Sachs’ graduate students in Landscape Architecture, Sarah Wallace, is working to design a new therapeutic space for the AgroEcology Corridor. In addition to this work, Sachs and the team at Cornell will continue to explore the many benefits of exposure to nature, looking for more specifics on how different types of natural settings affect people’s health, as well as how socializing in nature versus active engagement with your surroundings affects the dosage and benefits received.

This paper entitled, “Minimum Time Dose in Nature to Positively Impact the Mental Health of College-Aged Students, and How to Measure It: A Scoping Review,” is published in Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02942

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“As COVID-19 tightens its grip on communities around the nation, people are becoming more aware and appreciative of what public health is and what public health does. Accreditation provides reassurance that their health department has the capacity to provide the highest quality of services.”

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (PRWEB)
April 03, 2020

Every day, people and communities trust public health departments to provide essential services that will keep them healthy, protect them from diseases and injuries, and ensure that their food and water is safe. During public health emergencies such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, health departments are a community’s lifeline for providing services, information, and guidance that can save many lives. To honor the trust that is placed in them and ensure they are providing the highest standards of service, more and more health departments are seeking national accreditation through the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB). Today, PHAB announced it has awarded five-year accreditation status to 20 health departments. Among the 20 departments, 13 have achieved the prestigious designation for the first time, and seven have successfully completed the review process required to maintain their national accreditation status for five more years.

Marking yet another milestone for PHAB’s decade-old accreditation program, Fort Bragg Department of Public Health in Fort Bragg, N.C., in March became the first Army Installation Department of Public Health to achieve accreditation under the new Army Public Health Initial Accreditation Standards and Measures, which were approved by PHAB’s Board of Directors in 2019.

“The work of public health never ceases – it’s 24/7 – and it is done so well and so seamlessly that it is largely invisible to the public,” said PHAB President and CEO Paul Kuehnert, DNP, RN, FAAN. “But this week, as COVID-19 tightens its grip on communities around the nation, people are becoming more and more aware and appreciative of what public health is and what public health does. People are looking to their public health departments to protect and guide them through this crisis, and national accreditation provides reassurance that the health department that serves them has the capacity to provide the highest quality of services.”

PHAB, the nonprofit organization that administers the national public health accreditation program, aims to improve and protect the health of the public by advancing and transforming the quality and performance of governmental public health agencies in the U.S. and abroad. Launched in 2011 with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, PHAB’s accreditation program has become the national standard for public health in the United States. With this week’s accreditation announcement, 82 percent of the U.S. population is now reaping the benefits of being served by a PHAB-accredited health department.

To receive national accreditation through PHAB, a health department must undergo a rigorous, multi-faceted, peer-reviewed assessment process to ensure it meets nationally established public health quality standards and measures. PHAB-accredited health departments range in size from large state health departments serving tens of millions of people to small local health departments serving communities of fewer than 50,000 people.

In Hastings, Nebraska, South Heartland District Health Department is among the smaller health departments to recently achieve accreditation through PHAB. Speaking on behalf of the department’s six full-time and six part-time employees, Executive Director Michele M. Bever, PhD, MPH, emphasized that “even a small rural public health department like ours” can attain this status.

“We are thrilled to be an accredited health department,” Bever said. “We now have firsthand proof of the value of accreditation’s evidence-based guidance for performance management, quality improvement and engagement of staff. Through the accreditation process, we leaped forward in our activities around enforcing public health laws and establishing and utilizing an ethics process. Most recently, in responding to the COVID-19 threat, our six full-time and six part-time staff have been working long hours with lots of overtime. In the midst of this, we called an emergency Ethics Committee meeting to deliberate on some emerging issues. We were very glad to have this in place; their input was invaluable to guide our decision-making processes at a critical juncture.”

In Minneapolis, Minn., Hennepin County Human Services and Public Health Department –initially accredited in 2014 — is among seven health departments recognized by PHAB in March for successfully completing the review process required to maintain their accreditation status for five more years. In doing so, the department has demonstrated its capacity to continue to improve, advance, and become increasingly effective at improving the health of the community.

“Hennepin County Public Health is pleased and excited to have achieved reaccreditation through PHAB,” said Public Health Director Susan Palchick, PhD, MPH. “The process of measuring our performance against rigorous standards gave us insight into our strengths and identified opportunities to advance our achievements as a high-performing local public health agency. With this accomplishment we are telling our community, our partner organizations, our funders, and our elected officials that we have the capacity to continue to grow and evolve in ways that strengthen our internal operations and community partnerships.”

National initial accreditation was awarded March 17, 2020 to:

• Central Racine County Health Department, Franksville, WI
• Chippewa County Department of Public Health, Chippewa Falls, WI
• Cudahy Health Department, Cudahy, WI
• Fairfield Department of Health, Lancaster, OH
• Fort Bragg Department of Public Health, Fort Bragg, NC
• Montgomery County Health Department, Mt. Sterling, KY
• Montgomery Township Health Department, Belle Mead, NJ
• Riley County Health Department, Manhattan, KS
• Shasta County Health and Human Services Agency–Public Health Branch, Redding, CA
• Siouxland District Health Department, Sioux City, Iowa
• South Heartland District Health Department, Hastings, NE
• Toledo-Lucas County Health Department, Toledo, OH
• Warren County Health District, Lebanon, OH

National reaccreditation was awarded March 17, 2020 to:

• Delaware Public Health District, Delaware, OH
• Deschutes County Health Services, Bend, OR
• Hennepin County Human Services and Public Health Department, Minneapolis, MN
• Marion County Health & Human Services Public Health Division, Salem, OR
• Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul, MN
• Missoula City-County Health Department, Missoula, MT
• Oneida County Health Department, Rhinelander, WI

For more information, contact PHAB Communications Manager Teddi Nicolaus at (703) 778-4549, ext. 118, or via email at tnicolaus@phaboard.org. Learn more about PHAB and accreditation at http://www.phaboard.org. Be in the know: subscribe to PHAB’s e-newsletter!

About the Public Health Accreditation Board

The Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) was created to serve as the national public health accrediting body and is funded in part by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The development of national public health accreditation has involved, and is supported by, public health leaders and practitioners from the national, state, local, Tribal, and territorial levels. For more information, email tnicolaus@phaboard.org.

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