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Every person that has ever spent a day as an in-patient in a hospital has experienced a care transition. And every person that has stayed in a hospital in the last several years has seen changes in the way in-patient stays and discharges are handled. One in six of Medicare beneficiaries discharge from a hospital were readmitted within thirty days during 2009. More than 1/3 were readmitted within 90 days. In 2009 alone, the cost to taxpayers for unplanned readmissions was more than $19 billion!

The good news is that these unplanned readmissions can be drastically reduced by observing some fairly simple guidelines for post-discharge care. Join Sam and Brad as they discuss Griswold Home Care’s approach to Care Transitions, and explore what other organizations are doing to help keep discharged patients safe and healthy in their own homes. For more information about care transitions, please contact Sam or Brad at (770) 908-0707, or send and email to brad@gscatlanta.com, or sam@gscatlanta.com.

We want to thank Griswold Home Care for sponsoring today’s show. Griswold Home Care has been a preferred provider of high quality, affordable in-home senior care in Atlanta for 20 years.

Capturing the Memories of a Lifetime…with Dave Savage

June 20, 2013 by angishields

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Capturing the Memories of a Lifetime...with Dave Savage

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“The quest to know who we are, where we came from, and how we came to be the family we are now, is a powerful emotional desire, at some point in everyone’s life.”

Dave Savage grew up in southern California in a family that is all about legacy. His Dad has composed a 100 year journal of their family and passed that on to Dave. The owner of Memory Keepers Video and co-author, with Beverly Molander, of the soon to be released book, “The Best Memorial Services”, Dave has always had a curiosity about how things worked and who people are.He began to help friends record the stories of their families, and the business “just grew from there”.“Family storytelling energizes and uplifts the spirit, honors the past and pays tribute to the people who have shaped your life”.“By recording the stories, with your loved ones, you are more confident that they understand what you are sharing and that they comprehend the emotion you have about the subjects being discussed”.

Memory Keepers Video can accomplish this in several customized formats suited to the particular desires of the client and their family. It was an easy transition from preserving family legacies to writing “The Best Memorial Services”.He and Beverly have found a way that “makes it far easier and less traumatic for your family to create and agree upon a wonder service or ceremony for your loved one”.They share advice, ideas, experiences and resources to help you create a meaningful service or ceremony. As an example, Dan tells us to think about your family’s traditions, rituals and ceremonies and find a way to record them so you can pass them on to the future generations. To contact Dave, call him at (404) 323-8686, send him an email at Dave@davesavage.com, or visit these websites:

www.MemoryKeepersVideo.com

www.TheBestMemorialService.com

We want to thank Griswold Home Care for sponsoring today’s show. Griswold Home Care has been a preferred provider of high quality, affordable in-home senior care in Atlanta for 20 years.

Personalized Medicine and Pharmacogenetics

June 20, 2013 by angishields

The Doctors Roundtable

Personalized Medicine and Pharmacogenetics

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Personalized medicine is an emerging model that extends traditional approaches by using an individual’s genetic profile to guide medical decisions and treat illnesses. Genetics gives us a more detailed understanding of how genetic variability between people can be used to better predict a patient’s response to medicine, titrate doses, and significantly reduce adverse drug reactions. “One size does NOT fit all” in drug therapy. Low cost, easy to use gene testing is now available and moving closer to the mass market.

The FDA recently documented that genotyped patients receiving warfarin therapy are expected to have 31% fewer overall hospitalizations and 28% fewer bleeding incidents that may result in healthcare savings of $1.1B. Over 2 million adverse drug reactions are documented in the US annually and an estimated 100,000 deaths per year are caused by ADR’s in hospitals across the US . Like knowing your blood type, knowing a genetic baseline /genetic variations can be quite valuable. Patient profiles that benefit the most include: on 4+ medications, taking Warfarin (Coumadin) or Plavix, have unexplained symptoms, or where medications have not been effective.

Iverson Genetics, in Washington, is a leader in this exciting field. Today, on this segment, Dr. Christina Mailloux and Randy Satterlee will discuss “P4” medicine: predictive, personalized, preventive, and participatory new pharmacogenetic advances. Listeners can visit www.iversongenetics.com and www.personalizedmedicine.com to learn more.

Dr. Christina Mailloux and Randy Satterlee

Iverson Genetics

Veterans see Green Gold in Grounds Guys

June 20, 2013 by angishields

From Boots 2 Biz Radio

Veterans see Green Gold in Grounds Guys

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Would you like to find the following attributes in a business?

Need based, recession resistant.
Few Employees.
Very low operating costs.
High profit margin business model.
No prior industry experience necessary.
Can be home based.
Ability to grow a significant business.

Of course you would! And Grounds Guys has all of these strong points and many more. A Grounds Guys franchise provides commercial and municipal maintenance and landscaping services, snow removal (depending on location), landscape design; sod installation, lawn and vegetation fertilization and treatment; and other related services and products.

Our guests today are Pat Hyland, VP of Franchise Development for Grounds Guys and Garrison Spearman, a military veteran and relatively new franchise owner in the metro Atlanta area.

Grounds Guys is a part of the Dwyer Group, a nationally recognized leader in multiple service industries with over 1,600 locations in the United States and Canada. Grounds Guys benefits directly from The Dwyer Group’s 30 plus years of experience, systems and success with seven different franchise brands.

Additional competitive advantages:

Proprietary marketing tools and strategies to acquire customers.
Proprietary software designed to handle the day to day functions of the business.
Unique leasing and purchasing arrangements with various vendors to help new franchisees with start up and operational costs.
Proprietary estimating and pricing software for immediate job quotes.
A national call center controls overhead costs and frees up owners time to promote and manage their business.
Outsourcing all accounting functions provides up to the minute financial information and also reduces overhead.

It’s easy to see why many Veterans see Green Gold in Grounds Guys!

For more information contact Bill Williams, host of From Boots 2 Biz Radio at bwilliams@4axxiom.com directly.

Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk with bbr Marketing, and Donna Grindle and Karla Kreitner with Kardon Technology

June 20, 2013 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk with bbr Marketing, and Donna Grindle and Karla Kreitner with Kardon Technology

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Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk/bbr Marketing

Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk is the President and Founder of bbr marketing, a firm that provides marketing strategy and services to professional services firms. By having such a narrow market, she has been able to create a name for herself and her company, and was recently named “One to Watch” by AccountingToday on their Top 100 Most Influential People of 2011. She attributes the awareness and growth of her firm to a number of things, one of the most effective has been making connections with others and actively networking among her peers. She is never hesitant to make introductions to colleagues with the hopes that they will eventually work together, refer business to each other or simply enjoy getting to know each other. She’s even been known to reach out to her competitors, and has made some lasting friendships and alliances because of this strategy. At the end of the day, she feels the good that can be done by connecting people far outweighs any negative impact. And who doesn’t enjoy meeting someone new?

Donna Grindle and Karla Kreitner/Kardon Technology

Kardon Technology provides technology support and compliance services to small businesses. They specialize in businesses that are part of the medical industry.

Donna Grindle has been in the medical technology field at many levels for over 25 years. Donna is also a Certified HIPAA Privacy and Security Expert. Karla Kreitner has been in the customer service and training area of medical technology for over 30 years. Their combined expertise is what Kardon Technology is based upon.

CAP & The Children’s Museum

June 19, 2013 by angishields

Good Morning Atlanta

CAP & The Children's Museum

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Central Atlanta Membership Manager Dan Williams and The Children’s Museum of Atlanta’s Executive Director Jane Turner join host Dana Barrett to talk about the Atlanta business headlines and the latest and greatest news from the Children’s Museum of Atlanta.

Topics discussed ranged from the firing of 790 The Zone’s Mayhem in the AM show (for their tasteless mocking of Steve Gleason, the former NFL player who is battling ALS) to new jobs being brought to downtown and midtown by AT&T and Coke, to the newest downtown attraction, the ferris wheel, scheduled to open in early July.

The show also features a discussion of the age gap in attendance at arts and cultural events and what we can do about it.

Audio Dust Jacket Volume 11

June 19, 2013 by angishields

BRX National

Audio Dust Jacket Volume 11

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On This Episode of Audio Dust Jacket:

Sharon Drew Morgen / Did You Really Say What I Think I Hear? (In Progress)

Sharon Drew Morgen is a visionary, thought leader, author of many books including NY Times Best Seller, inventor, consultant, trainer, and developer of Buying Facilitation(r) method. Sharon Drew is the developer of the addition of the buying decision path into the field of sales. She is currently semi-retired, focusing on bringing the HOW TO of listening, to all people who wish to communicate more effectively, via a new book that will assess biases, filters, assumptions, and habits.

Sharon Drew Morgen | 512 457 0246