MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYERS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BRINGS LEGENDS FOR YOUTH BASEBALL CLINIC SERIES TO SALT LAKE CITY
Free youth baseball clinic to feature father-son duo Vern and Vance Law and other MLB Alumni
Colorado Springs, Colo. – Local youth will have an opportunity to play with their big league heroes at the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association (MLBPAA) Legends for Youth baseball clinic series on Monday, August 21st, 2017. The free clinic features former Major League Baseball players who will teach baseball skills, drills and life lessons for approximately 200 local youth.
Players attending* include 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates World Series champion and 1960 Cy Young Award Winner Vern Law and his son, All-Star Vance Law, as well as Gorman Heimueller and George Sherrill. These four players combine for 38 seasons, 184 wins and 2,159 games in Major League Baseball.
The clinic will take place at Sherwood Park – Northeast Field, running from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., located at 1450 West 300 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84104. Alumni players will train at stations including pitching, catching, baserunning and life skills. Registration will begin at 9:30 a.m. and the morning will conclude with an autograph session and baseball giveaways for children in attendance.
To register for this clinic, please visit www.baseballalumni.com. Registration is required.
For more information regarding the clinic, please contact Nikki Warner, Director of Communications, at (719) 477-1870, ext. 105 or visit www.baseballalumni.com.
*Clinicians subject to change.
About The Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association (MLBPAA)
MLBPAA was founded in 1982 with the mission of promoting baseball, raising money for charity and protecting the dignity of the game through its Alumni players. The MLBPAA is headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO with a membership of more than 7,800, of which approximately 6,100 are Alumni and active players. Alumni players find the MLBPAA to be a vital tool to become involved in charity and community philanthropy. Follow @MLBPAA on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for updates.
About Legends for Youth Clinics
MLBPAA’s Legends for Youth clinics impact more than 16,000 children each year, allowing them the unique opportunity to interact with and learn from players who have left a lasting impact on the game of baseball. The MLBPAA has reached children across America and internationally in Australia, Canada, China, Curaçao, the Dominican Republic, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Nicaragua, the United Kingdom and Venezuela, through the Legends for Youth clinic series. To donate to this program, visit baseballalumni.com/donate. The official hashtag of the Legends for Youth clinic series is #LFYClinic.
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U.S. Department of Labor to Hold Medical Benefits Meetings
in New Mexico and Utah for Uranium Workers
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor will hold informational meetings in New Mexico and Utah for former and current workers in the uranium industry and their survivors. Federal representatives will be on-hand to provide information about the medical benefits available under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA).
The EEOICPA provides compensation and medical benefits to employees whose work in the nuclear weapons and uranium mining industries made them ill. Survivors of qualified workers may also be entitled to benefits.
Additionally, staff from the Denver and Seattle District offices of the Department’s Division of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation (DEEOIC) and representatives of its Espanola and Las Vegas Resource centers will be available to assist individuals filing new claims under the EEOICPA. They will also provide claimants with status updates on their existing claims.
WHAT: Town Hall Meeting on EEOICPA benefits
WHERE: Phil L. Thomas Performing Arts Center
State Route 504
Shiprock, NM 87420
WHEN: Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017
9:00 a.m. MDT – EEOICPA Medical benefits discussion
9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. MDT – District Office and Resource Center availability
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WHAT: Town Hall Meeting on EEOICPA benefits for current and former uranium industry workers
WHERE: Hideout Community Center
648 S. Hideout Way
Monticello, UT 84535
WHEN: Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017
9:00 a.m. MDT – EEOICPA Medical benefits discussion
9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. MDT – District Office and Resource Center availability
To date, the program has paid $1.9 billion in EEOICPA compensation and medical benefits to 14,543 New Mexico claimants, $232.3 million to 2,072 Utah claimants, and $13.9 billion nationwide. For additional information about this outreach event or to schedule an appointment for claim-filing assistance, contact DEEOIC’s Espanola Resource Center toll-free at (866) 272-3622.
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The collaborative grants provide seed funding for projects aimed at transforming healthcare in multiple fields of medicine
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, USA, August 18, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Stanford Medicine and Intermountain Healthcare have announced the recipients of more than $400,000 in seed grants focused on transforming healthcare.
The six projects were chosen from a competitive field of 23 proposals, using a vetting process similar to that used by the National Institutes of Health, which establishes selection criteria and scoring systems.
“The Intermountain-Stanford grant program is part of an exciting collaboration focused on advancing clinical care best practices, education and training, and clinical research in heart disease, cancer, and other conditions. This is the second year of the grant program, in September 2016 seven grants were awarded and those projects are underway. The purpose of the grant award is to spearhead and accelerate research between the two organizations and support innovative projects in research, patient care, and medical education” says Robert W. Allen, Intermountain Healthcare’s Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.
“Our collaboration will foster those scientific discoveries that have potential to improve patient care in both institutions,” says David Larson, MD, MBA, co-chair of the Intermountain-Stanford Collaborative Committee and Stanford University School of Medicine’s Associate Professor of Pediatric Radiology and Associate Chair of Performance Improvement in the Department of Radiology.
The seed grants, up to $75,000 each, were awarded to projects that will be jointly led by principal investigators from Intermountain and Stanford, and will take effect on September 1, 2017.
The six selected projects focus on surgical health services, emergency medicine and electronic decision support, pediatric bronchiolitis, neonatal onset of sepsis, team-based primary care, and infectious disease. Although they’re from diverse clinical areas, all the studies are designed to improve patient care.
The six selected projects:
• Setting a foundation for collaborative surgical health services research at Stanford Health Care, Intermountain Healthcare, and the Veterans Health Administration — Stephen Warner, MD, Orthopedic Surgery, Intermountain Healthcare; Alex Sox-Harris, PhD, MS, Associate Professor (Research) of Surgery, Stanford.
• ePE: Electronic decision support for the diagnosis and treatment of acute pulmonary embolism in the emergency department — Joseph Bledsoe, MD, FACEP, Medical Director Emergency Medicine/Trauma, Intermountain Healthcare; Ian Brown, MD, MS, FAAEM, FACEP, Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Stanford.
• Optimizing value in bronchiolitis: the bronchiolitis follow-up intervention trial (BeneFIT) — Eric Coon, MD, MS, Pediatric Medicine, Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital; Alan Schroeder, MD, Associate Chief for Research in the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
• Early detection of neonatal early onset sepsis using the sepsis MetaScore: A genomic analysis of cord blood — Patrick Carroll, MD, MPH, Neonatology, Intermountain Healthcare; Purvesh Khatri, PhD, Assistant Professor (Research) of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics Research-ITI Institute) and of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford.
• Pragmatic Design for Enhanced Team-Based Primary Care — Brenda Reiss-Brennan, PhD, APRN, Behavioral Health Services Director, Intermountain Healthcare; Marcy Winget, PhD, Director, Evaluation Sciences Unit and Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Stanford School of Medicine.
• Repurposing an old drug for a new epidemic: ursodeoxycholic acid and clostridium difficile Infection — Brandon Webb, MD, Infectious Diseases, Intermountain Healthcare; Aruna Subramanian, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases, Stanford.
“We are privileged to collaborate with the Stanford University School of Medicine, a premier medical school and worldwide leader in science and research,” says Raj Srivastava, MD, MPH, co-chair of the Intermountain-Stanford Collaborative Committee and AVP of Research at Intermountain Healthcare. “We are excited to launch these projects, foster new scientific collaborations focused on improving patient care, and set the stage for the healthcare transformation potential from the Intermountain-Stanford grant program.”
Intermountain Healthcare is a Utah-based, not-for-profit system of 22 hospitals, 180 clinics, a Medical Group with some 1,500 employed physicians, a health plans division called SelectHealth, and other health services. Helping people live the healthiest lives possible, Intermountain is widely recognized as a leader in transforming healthcare through high quality and sustainable costs. For more information about Intermountain, visit intermountainhealthcare.org,
