CACHE VALLEY® CREAMERY PARTNERS WITH REAL SALT LAKE™
FOR A SEASON FULL OF FAMILY-FRIENDLY EVENTS
Fan-Favorite Local Cheese Brand Enhances Game-Day Experience for Real Salt Lake Supporters with Events, Entertainment and a Chance to Win Access to Their Favorite Team
SANDY, Utah —Thursday, April 27, 2017— Cache Valley® Creamery announced today that the Utah-born brand is partnering with Salt Lake City’s Major League Soccer™ club, Real Salt Lake™, for the 2017 season. The partnership, which kicked off at the home opener on March 4, brings excitement to Real Salt Lake and Cache Valley fans alike with a series of contests, family-friendly events and game-day experiences throughout the season.
“We are proud to welcome Cache Valley Creamery as a sponsor and partner of Real Salt Lake,” said Andy Carroll, Chief Business Officer of Real Salt Lake. “This is a unique opportunity for our team, along with another brand trusted and loved by Utahans, to enhance the fan experience and help our community feel closer to the Real Salt Lake organization and players.”
To kick things off, the brand has partnered with local radio stations KUBL and KBEE to offer ten of Real Salt Lake’s biggest fans a VIP Experience at Rio Tinto Stadium. Starting April 3, listeners will get the chance to win special access to the May 6 game against FC Dallas™, which will include tickets for one adult and one child (between ages five and 16), dinner at the AFCU Pavilion, pre-game sideline passes and a post-game autograph session. Even more, one lucky Grand Prize winner will get his or her moment in the spotlight at a post-game press conference, acting as a reporter and asking their favorite player a single question. Fans can also enter to win at http://www.rsl.com/post/2017/04/21/enter-win-vip-experience-cache-valley-creamery.
“It is an honor to work with the Real Salt Lake organization,” said Flavia Panza, Senior Marketing Director for Cache Valley Creamery. “Utah is the heart of our brand, and we look forward to strengthening our relationship with the community by joining in on the fun of the 2017 soccer season.”
Throughout the season, RSL fans can enjoy melt-in-your-mouth Royal Grilled Cheese sandwiches made with Cache Valley Slices at in-stadium concessions, as well as engage with the brand on a Mini Foot-Golf course complete with cheese-themed obstacles at Carnival Real, just outside Rio Tinto Stadium. At select games, attendees will also have the chance to sample Cache Valley String Cheese and take a spin at the Cache Valley Cheese Wheel to win soccer jerseys, water bottles and more. Later in the summer, fans will enjoy even more halftime fun and must-see promotions presented by Cache Valley around Father’s Day and back-to-school.
ABOUT CACHE VALLEY® CREAMERY
Since 1937, Cache Valley® Creamery has been offering delicious cheese and butter using only the highest-quality ingredients to Utahans and surrounding areas. Dedication to quality means consumers can expect wholesome, expertly crafted cheese every time. Cache Valley Creamery products are sold at retailers throughout Utah, including Walmart, Smith’s, Macey’s, Fresh Market, Harmon’s and more.
ABOUT REAL SALT LAKE:
Real Salt Lake recently kicked off its 13th Major League Soccer season in 2017, the Utah side buoyed by a passionate fan base boasting nearly 13,000 season ticket holders at its Rio Tinto Stadium home in Sandy, where the “Claret-and-Cobalt” has enjoyed a most pronounced home-field advantage in Major League Soccer, posting an impressive 97-22-39 mark in the building since its opening in October, 2008.
In search of hardware, RSL seeks to reach the MLS Cup Playoffs for the ninth time in 10 years this season, a remarkable run among Major League Soccer’s elite that includes an MLS Cup 2009 title, the state of Utah’s only major professional championship in the last 40 years. Recent campaigns have seen RSL advance to another MLS Cup title game, losing in 2013 via a penalty-kick shootout in Kansas City, where the 2015 squad also dropped a Semifinal match in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. RSL lost an Open Cup Final at home in 2013, the one-goal loss to D.C. United a bitter reminder of the Club’s groundbreaking (and ultimately heartbreaking) run to the CONCACAF Champions League Final in 2011, when the club became the first-ever – and still only – U.S. side to progress within one goal of advancing to the FIFA Club World Cup.
Opening in Fall, 2017, Real Salt Lake's regional training campus arrives in Herriman, Utah, approximately 20 minutes southwest of Rio Tinto Stadium. The $60 million facility will serve as the daily training home beginning in 2018 for both of the club's professional teams – RSL (MLS) and Real Monarchs (USL) – while centralizing the club's U-18, U-16 and future U-14 development academy youth selections. The Herriman facility will provide adjacencies for an on-site charter school opening this September with STEM disciplines (Science/Technology/Engineering/Math) for nearly 300 boys and girls.
Late last year in North Logan, Utah, RSL Owner Dell Loy Hansen broke ground on the first of a half-dozen regional training centers across Utah and Arizona to be built in the next 2-3 years. Each $5 million RTC houses a classroom, as well as an indoor and outdoor field, dedicated to fulfilling a curriculum consistent with the club's vision and mission for youth soccer training and education, and the continued development of both recreational and competitive pre-Academy (ages 7-12) initiatives across Utah and Arizona.
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Findings of a new study by researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute may be a “game-changer” for determining who’s at risk of a heart attack.
Researchers are revisiting their views on the relative dangers soft and hard atherosclerotic plaque deposits pose to heart health
The finding potentially could mean a lot of patients may not require statin therapy, even though they have high cholesterol.”
— Brent Muhlestein, MD, FACC, Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute
SALT LAKE CITY , UTAH , USA, April 28, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Researchers are revisiting their views on the relative dangers soft and hard atherosclerotic plaque deposits pose to heart health. Findings of a new study by researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City may be a “game-changer” for determining who’s at risk of a heart attack, they say.
The notion that soft plaque is more likely to rupture and cause heart attacks than hard calcium deposits in coronary arteries may be wrong, according to the new study that will be presented at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions in Washington D.C. on March 18.
Atherosclerosis is caused when plaque builds up in the arteries, narrowing and hardening them.
“We previously thought the lipid-laden soft plaque was more likely to rupture and cause heart attacks, but based on our new research, it’s more the calcified plaque that appears to be associated with adverse cardiovascular events” said Brent Muhlestein, MD, one of the study’s authors and co-director of cardiology research at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City.
Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute researchers had earlier teamed with Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and National Institutes of Health scientists to analyze the composition of plaque from 224 patients who had diabetes, but no heart symptoms.
This new research reflects more long-term findings after patients were followed for an average of nearly seven years to see if their plaque composition had predicted whether they’d have a cardiac event.
In this study, through careful quantitative evaluation, the composition of coronary artery plaque identified in the subjects through CT coronary angiography was stratified proportionately into amounts of soft, calcified, and fibrous plaque and compared with future risk of unstable angina, heart attack or death.
Unexpectedly, proportionately higher quantities of calcified plaque best predicted major adverse coronary events, while soft plaque did not, researchers found.
Dr. Muhlestein said further studies are needed to verify the findings, but results from his team’s research may represent a potential paradigm shift. “We need further validation to gauge the importance of why the coronary calcium score is so predictive,” he said.
Although a build-up of coronary calcium doesn’t go away, doctors can successfully treat the patient aggressively with statins. They know no one gets coronary calcium if they don’t have plaque, even if it hasn’t been seen, so anyone with coronary calcium also has atherosclerosis.
“It’s a disease marker, not a risk marker. And we think it’s possibly a very important predictor,” said Dr. Muhlestein, who noted that having a calcium score of zero is like having a five-year warranty against heart attack — even with high levels of low-density lipoprotein, also known as LDL or bad, cholesterol.
“The finding potentially could mean a lot of patients may not require statin therapy, even though they have high cholesterol,” he said. “Maybe we can find and identify them. If there’s no atherosclerosis, you’re not going to have a heart attack. So the coronary calcium score may allow us to much more effectively select who we treat.”
The next step for the researchers is to complete more of the scans to see if the finding holds up, which will make findings more robust.
Other study authors are Farangis Lavasani, NP; Heidi T. May, PhD; Alan C. Kwan, MD, George Cater, MD; Boaz D. Rosen, MD; Donald L. Lappé, MD; Jeffrey L. Anderson, MD; Kirk U. Knowlton, MD; and Jaoa A.C. Lima, MD.
Intermountain Medical Center is the flagship hospital for the Intermountain Healthcare system, based in Salt Lake City.
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SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, USA, April 28, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Would you tolerate a restaurant handing you three bills for your dinner? How about if the waiter asked several times if you have allergies? That is the point that Intermountain Healthcare is trying to make in a new video that highlights the customer experience differences between a medical office and an eatery.
The video, titled “If Restaurants Behaved Like Healthcare,” takes a humorous approach about the restaurant/medical office switch to show the absurdity of the event with the customer’s outrage. Yet, through the humor, the message rings true to how patients should be treated.
“I think it is enlightening for Intermountain to be able to call that out and say look at how we treat our patients in regards to how they might be treated in a restaurant,” said Katy Jo Stevens, patient experience director at Intermountain. “What would that actually look like?”
There are indispensable needs everyone has needed as a patient. While some traits have not changed over time, the same patient/caregiver interaction may not be the same as that of thirty years ago.
“Patients have always needed our compassion and our understanding, and our going beyond just the clinical care. They expect that,” Stevens said. “We said we have to involve patients more. We have to partner with them more. We have to listen to them more.”
Intermountain has been working on improving the ever-changing patient experience for years. Current efforts include inviting patients and families into advisory boards for improvement ideas. Changes from surveys and the advisory boards can present large to small ideas, but effective changes.
One major problem that most patients who feel, and highlighted in the restaurant video, is when the bill arrives – or rather several bills – all at once or even months apart. Intermountain is working to address the billing concerns. One such example is if you receive service and have insurance through Intermountain’s SelectHealth insurance plan, Intermountain and SelectHealth will combine statements in the same envelope. This helps reduce bill confusion and also is environmentally friendly.
The “If Restaurants Behaved Like Healthcare” video can be found on Intermountain Healthcare’s YouTube page.
Intermountain Healthcare is a not-for-profit system of 22 hospitals, 180 clinics, a Medical Group with about 1,500 employed physicians and advanced practitioners, a health plans group called SelectHealth, and other medical services. Intermountain is widely recognized as a leader in transforming healthcare through high quality and sustainable costs. For more information about Intermountain, visit www.intermountainhealthcare.org.
