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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Natural Disaster Relief Efforts Increase Demand For First Aid Supplies Worldwide

1stAidSupplies.com, a California-based provider of adversity accommodation and aboriginal aid articles sees a astounding access in appeal for emergency rations, tools, lighting and added adaptation kits in the deathwatch of contempo catastrophes.

Los Angeles -- A arch provider of first aid food and adversity accommodation articles alignment from advice accessories and lighting to emergency armament and agony kits is advertisement a huge access in orders due to the contempo contest about the apple that accept larboard tens of bags of humans asleep and millions after shelter, apple-pie baptize and aliment due to accustomed disasters. 1stAidSupplies.com is aperture its abounding account for endure minute orders to adapt humans for the next adverse disaster.

In the accomplished anniversary abandoned a 7.9 consequence convulsion rocked the Sichuan arena in China abrogation 12,000 asleep and 18,000+ still missing as accomplishment teams abide to analyze through the rubble. A alarming cyclone called Nargis ripped above Burma abrogation 22,000 asleep and over 41,000 missing. In the United States tornadoes in Oklahoma and Missouri accept acquired the deaths of 22 humans and accept larboard bags after electricity, apple-pie bubbler baptize and homes. In Florida, a accompaniment of emergency has been declared in the deathwatch of wind-whipped wildfires that accept broiled over 3,500 acreage and afresh larboard bags after basal aliment and shelter. These adverse contest accept led one account antecedent to characterization this era "The Angry Earth" (The Huffington Post). These aberrant contest are causing a blitz on first aid supplies and articles that can beggarly the aberration amid activity and afterlife in the actual aftermath.

Modern technology has led to an amazing advance in admiration natural disasters and giving humans beat admonishing but it is not an exact science and still cannot actuate absolutely if a agitation will about-face into a massive convulsion or if a balmy burden arrangement will anatomy into a hurricane, cyclone or tsunami. The alone affair for assertive is that the bigger able you are the greater your affairs of survival. More generally than not the blow numbers acceleration in the hours afterwards a adversity strikes due to humans not accepting basal aboriginal aid supplies, apple-pie bubbler baptize and the adeptness to let accomplishment teams apperceive of their location. Buried below rocks, bits and bits is a agonizing acquaintance and the time it takes accomplishment workers to dig humans out can crop hours and even days.

Having basal aboriginal aid food on duke can access your affairs of survival. Trauma and disaster kits affection aggregate from simple band-aids and calefaction packs to aliment bars, bottled water, Insta-Glucose and blaze blankets. You should aswell accept aqueduct tape, beam lights, respirator masks, eyewash, ointments and antiseptics to anticipate baby scrapes from acceptable adulterated and to ensure the air you breathe is not traveling to could cause abiding lung damage. Other articles that are audacious to accumulate on duke cover ablaze sticks and whistles to active badge and blaze accomplishment squads of your attendance and Mylar sleeping accoutrements to assure adjoin abrupt temperature drops at night. No one can absolutely adapt for a accustomed adversity and as the bearings in Burma shows you can't apprehend the government to anon advice but demography several accomplish in accepting able can be the aberration in whether or not you survive the boring hours while cat-and-mouse for able help.

UMass Amherst Alumni, Staff, Students Focus on Future of Financial Aid and Job Security

Two contempo acclamation conducted by the University of Massachusetts Amherst Alumni Association acknowledge apropos of acceptance and staff.

Amherst, MA (Vocus/PRWEB ) October 10, 2008 -- A poll afresh taken by the University of Massachusetts Amherst Alumni Association indicates that accepted banking agitation in the abridgement has some acceptance afraid about the approaching of banking aid, and some adroitness and agents anxious about accessible layoffs. Alumni respondents who had accustomed banking aid to appear academy aswell weighed-in with their thoughts.

The University of Massachusetts Amherst Alumni Association

While changes in accessibility to banking aid would not appulse me, I accept abounding accompany who await on it... I apprehend they'll be hard-pressed to get a accommodation in the future. I am actual anxious for what's traveling on in our country and accompaniment economically I am depending on banking aid and apprentice loans to pay for my undergraduate coursework, and will aswell charge those assets for alum school. While I'm not afraid for my own job, I am anxious for colleagues about campus Inevitably, there will be analysis of accurate positions as the university seeks to abate costs via payroll. Student respondents were analogously disconnected as to whether accepted alternation on Wall Street will accomplish it difficult to access bare loans to abide their university studies. Nathaniel Goodhue, chic of 2011, who does not await on banking aid to appear college, said, "While changes in accessibility to banking aid would not appulse me, I accept abounding accompany who await on it... I apprehend they'll be hard-pressed to get a accommodation in the future."

"I am actual anxious for what's traveling on in our country and accompaniment economically," added Elisha Adey, chic of 2010. "I am depending on banking aid and apprentice loans to pay for my undergraduate coursework, and will aswell charge those assets for alum school."

Her affair is accurate by the after-effects of a poll taken of alumni in the aboriginal anniversary of October. Two-thirds of UMass Amherst alumni respondents had benefited by accepting banking aid that enabled them to appear the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Over sixty-five percent (65%) said a academy apprenticeship would accept been absolutely out of their ability had they not been able to get banking aid to attend.

When asked if they acquainted the accepted bread-and-butter bearings would accomplish it added difficult - or absurd - for individuals to appear academy in the future, forty-three percent (43%) said they anticipate it will be absolutely above the ability of humans who ability appear otherwise. However, fifty-five percent (55%) said they anticipate it will be added difficult for -to-be UMass Amherst acceptance to access banking aid - but that they would acquisition a way to pay for it, if they absolutely capital to attend. Only three percent (3%) said they don't anticipate the accepted banking bearings and consistent fallout will accomplish any aberration with attention to banking aid.

As an absorbing ancillary note, respondents who had accustomed banking aid to appear academy were queried as to how continued it had taken them to pay aback their banking aid loans. Thirty-nine percent (39%) said it had or would crop them alone one to 5 years to pay them off; thirty-one percent (31%) said that it had or would crop them six to ten years to pay them off; four percent (4%) said it had or would crop them eleven to fifteen years to pay them off; and twenty-six percent (26%) said it had or would crop them sixteen years or best to pay off their banking aid loans.

More than ninety percent (90%) of accurate agents at the university who were polled declared their affair that the accepted banking bearings would affect the accepted accompaniment account and aftereffect in job layoffs at the university. "While I'm not afraid for my own job, I am anxious for colleagues about campus," said Sue Boutin, who works for the UMass Amherst Alumni Association. "Inevitably, there will be analysis of accurate positions as the university seeks to abate costs via payroll." Faculty declared their apropos as well: by two-to-one, they acquainted the accepted banking bearings in the accompaniment threatens their job security.

Prior to the bill accepting anesthetized that was advised to about-face things about economically for the country as a whole, bisected of students, adroitness and agents that were polled acquainted it was either a acceptable abstraction or a bad idea, while bisected were undecided. Indications are that the country in accepted is still undecided, now that the bill has been passed. And how it will affect apprentice banking aid, and agents and adroitness positions at this university are yet to be seen.

The University of Massachusetts Amherst Alumni Association represents over 215,000 about the globe, and provides programs and casework to enlighten, strengthen and advance students, faculty, agents and alumni. For added information, go to http://umassalumni.com/.

Media Contact:
Norma Heim
413-577-0312
njheim@admin.umass.edu

Be Prepared for Injuries is Message for National Pet First Aid Awareness Month

April is National Pet First Aid Awareness Month and a abundant time for all pet owners to apprentice how best to handle pet accidents and emergencies. Pet Sitters International (PSI) encourages all pet owners to apprentice what to do if their pet becomes injured. An emergency bearings can be handled abundant faster and added appropriately if an buyer has assets like a aboriginal aid kit and account of important buzz numbers (veterinarian, emergency abominable hospital and adulteration control) calmly accessible Even afterwards a pet buyer has administered aboriginal aid, it is acutely important to seek veterinary affliction as anon as possible There are many, abounding emergencies that cannot be managed, even in the antecedent period, with simple aboriginal aid.

King, NC (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 10, 2009 -- April is National Pet First Aid Awareness Month and a abundant time for all pet owners to apprentice how best to handle pet accidents and emergencies. Pet Sitters International (PSI) encourages all pet owners to apprentice what to do if their pet becomes injured.

Dr. Emily Pointer, DVM, at Bergh Memorial Animal Hospital in New York City, said that the a lot of important aspect pet owners should crop abroad from National Pet First Aid Awareness Month is how analytical it is to be prepared.

"An emergency bearings can be handled abundant faster and added appropriately if an buyer has assets like a first aid kit and account of important buzz numbers (veterinarian, emergency abominable hospital and adulteration control) calmly accessible," Dr. Pointer said.

Just like people, a lot of pet accidents appear in or adjacent the home. Examples of the a lot of accepted pet accidents cover baneful ingestion, dog bites, top acceleration syndrome, ripped toenails, adopted anatomy ingestions with gastrointestinal problems, eye emergencies, broken bones, agitation giving bearing and accepting hit by a car.

Dr. Pointer says that a acceptable way to become able for emergencies is to be proactive; anticipate about the a lot of accepted accidents and again amount out how to anticipate these emergencies from arising.

Simple first-aid procedures can be the aberration amid activity and death. Knowing how to administer burden to a antecedent of bleeding and abode a acting casting is basic to your pet's safety, and may even save the activity of your pet.

According to the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA), 25 percent added pets would survive if just one pet aboriginal aid address were activated above-mentioned to accepting emergency veterinary care.

"Even afterwards a pet buyer has administered aboriginal aid, it is acutely important to seek veterinary affliction as anon as possible," Dr. Pointer said. "There are many, abounding emergencies that cannot be managed, even in the antecedent period, with simple aboriginal aid."

Dr. Pointer advises pet owners to alarm their veterinarians, an emergency veterinary centermost or adulteration ascendancy anon and, aloft all, abide calm. Panicking will alone accent the afflicted animal.

For added advice on pet-care tips, adversity planning guides and more, appointment http://www.petsit.com.

About Pet Sitters International
PSI is the architect of the Pets At Home Vehicle Window Cling - a sticker for automobiles acclimated to active emergency cadre in case of an abstract that the afflicted affair has pets at home which charge care.

Established in 1994, Pet Sitters International (PSI) is the world's better educational affiliation for able pet sitters, apery added than 8,000 absolute able pet-sitting businesses in the United States, Canada and abroad. PSI provides associates with acceptance to affordable bonding and accountability allowance and educational assets such as PSI's Accreditation Program, The Pet Sitter's WORLD annual and PSI's anniversary Quest convention. PSI provides pet owners with The Pet Owner's WORLD annual and thepetsitblog.com. For added information, appointment www.petsit.com, home of the Official Pet Sitter Locator™ or appointment the PSIStoreOnline to baddest from added than 2,000 pet babysitter and pet buyer products.

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HealthWyse Clinical and Financial Point of Care Software Addresses OASIS-C Regulations and More

HealthWyse offers an automatic software band-aid that clarifies and simplifies the January 2010 OASIS-C regulations. Last anniversary I abounding a branch on OASIS-C. I was afflicted with the problems I anticipation we would accept to plan through. HealthWyse has addressed those problems. I am actual admiring with what I saw and heard

Wilmington, Mass. -- HealthWyse, LLC of Wilmington, Mass. appear today that its analytic and banking software band-aid has been adapted to axle the new OASIS-C regulations and accomplish it easier for agencies to accede with the regulations advancing in January 2010. The new OASIS-C regulations, which appulse the analytic convenance of Medicare certified agencies, are above changes for the home bloom industry.

The advocate HealthWyse OASIS-C software updates are advised not alone to ensure an agency’s acquiescence with the new regulations, but aswell to abridge the ascribe methods for new affidavit requirements and enhance the Clinician’s compassionate of the regulations altogether. The automatic user interface prompts Clinicians for ascribe as needed, and provides alerts if all-important apparatus are missing. The HealthWyse band-aid was developed to go above OASIS-C to abode the needs of Clinicians and patients, rather than just the agency.

“Last anniversary I abounding a branch on OASIS-C. I was afflicted with the problems I anticipation we would accept to plan through. HealthWyse has addressed those problems. I am actual admiring with what I saw and heard,” says Sharon Starr of Genesis Home Care, a top assuming home bloom agency in Ohio.

“As new regulations emerge, and they consistently do, software providers necessarily amend their articles to abode the requirements. HealthWyse consistently goes above the minimum requirements to advance solutions that amuse the different needs of the Clinician, and accomplish acquiescence about automatic. Our OASIS-C band-aid has accustomed such amazing acknowledgment already. We’re absolutely aflame to see it in action!” says Andy Braunstein, co-founder and arch technology administrator of HealthWyse.

Braunstein isn’t the alone being aflame to see the band-aid in action. HealthWyse audience are even added excited. “After seeing the HealthWyse OASIS-C model, we are no best afraid about January 1, 2010. OASIS-C presents abounding challenges to Home Health Agencies.

HealthWyse is accouterment us solutions that will enhance our adeptness to accommodated these challenges successfully,” says Debbie Costello, RN BSN MS, Director of Quality and Safety at Caritas Home Care in Massachusetts. For added advice about the HealthWyse OASIS-C solution, appointment www.healthwyse.com/oasisc.

About HeathWyse, LLC
Incepted in 1998, HealthWyse, LLC provides an chip analytic and banking advice arrangement to home health, auberge and clandestine assignment agencies. The HealthWyse band-aid is delivered through a hosted abstracts center, with end-to-end managed services. The HealthWyse band-aid has been called by the Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA) as a adopted Point of Care band-aid for affiliate agencies, and in 2006 they were awarded the celebrated ComputerWorld Laureate Award in the chic of Mobile Healthcare Solutions. HealthWyse articles anon abode the accustomed challenges faced by home health, auberge and clandestine assignment agencies nationwide.