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In this episode, we will discuss critical care management of acute neuromuscular disorders. We will focus on the Guillain-Barre Syndrome and Myasthenia Gravis. My guest is Dr. Kamran Athar, who is trained in critical care medicine and neurocritical care. He is a practicing neurointensivist at the Farber Institute for Neuroscience in Philadelphia. Dr. Athar is an assistant professor of Medicine and Neurology at the Jefferson School of Medicine in Philadelphia. Additional Resources: Neuromuscular Disorders in the Intensive Care Unit. T B Birch. American Academy of Neurology 2021: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34618763/ The clinical management of neuromuscular disorders in intensive care. M S Damian and EFM Wijdicks. Neuromuscular Disorders 2019: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960896618304231 Books Mentioned in this Epsiode: When Breath Becomes Air. By Paul Kalanithi: https://www.amazon.com/When-Breath-Becomes-Kalanithi-Paul/dp/1784701998/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1706814212&sr=8-1

Norris Howard is in and we've got stories around Detroit and Metro Detroit to talk about on the podcast.  00:47 - Target is pulling out of the deal for the City Target at Mack and Woodward, but the developer says no way, we have a contract. 06:42 - The Jefferson School will become the HQ of Invest Detroit (among other things) plus a number of other Detroit projects get grants 12:30 - A new direct Metro Airport to downtown Detroit bus service pilot will start this spring. We have details. Feedback as always - dailydetroit - at - gmail - dot - com or 313-789-3211 Follow us on Apple Podcasts: https://lnk.to/dailydetroitonapple  Or Spotify: https://lnk.to/dailydetroitonspotify  Thanks to our members: http://www.patreon.com/dailydetroit  Or those who do a one-time contribution: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/dailydetroit  

Well Said has invited Dr. David Nash, the founding dean emeritus of the Jefferson School of Population health in Philadelphia, and Charles Wohlforth, a widely published author and science writer to discuss their new book “How COVID crashed the system; a guide to fixing American health care” that takes a hard look at how the COVID pandemic exposed deep flaws in how health care is delivered in the US.

The final week of 2021 begins with a slight pause on government meetings at the local and state level, but there’s always something to document in every edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement. What phrase would you use to describe the week between Christmas and New Year’s? Boxing Week? Witching Week? Charlottesville Community Engagement is looking for a few more subscribers, each and every day! Sign up for free and decide later how you might want to contribute! On today’s program:A lawsuit has been filed to stop a Confederate statue from being given to the Jefferson School Center for African American HeritageScottsville and Charlottesville have both received additional funding from a cap and trade program to pay for flood programs The Nelson County Board of Supervisors hires a consultant to help update the Comprehensive PlanAlbemarle County offering seven drop-off locations for Christmas tree recyclingIn today’s first Patreon-fueled shout-out:Winter is here, and now is the time to think about keeping your family warm through the cold Virginia months. Make sure you are getting the most out of your home with help from your local energy nonprofit, LEAP. LEAP wants you and yours to keep comfortable all year round, and offers FREE home weatherization to income- and age-qualifying residents. If you’re age 60 or older, or have an annual household income of less than $74,950, you may qualify for a free energy assessment and home energy improvements such as insulation and air sealing. Sign up today to lower your energy bills, increase comfort, and reduce energy waste at home!Pandemic updateAs the week begins, the Virginia Department of Health reports the seven-day average for positive tests has climbed to 14.5 percent this morning and a seven-day average of 6,307 new cases. On Christmas Day, the VDH reported 8,609 new cases and 5,432 cases on Boxing Day. More on the pandemic tomorrow. Statue lawsuitTwo organizations that bid to receive the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee have filed suit in Charlottesville Circuit Court to prevent it from being awarded to the Jefferson School Center for African American Heritage. The center plans to melt the statue down and made into a new public work of art. The petition for injunction filed December 22 on behalf of the Trevillian Station Battlefield Foundation and the Ratcliffe Foundation argues that City Council overstepped its authority when it voted 4-0 in the early hours of December 7 to choose the center. “The City can legally remove, relocate, contextualize, or cover the Lee monument, but the General Assembly denied the City authority to alter or destroy,” reads the argument, which also names the center as a defendant. “A foundry is not a museum, historical society, government, or military battlefield, which are the only lawful recipients for placement of a relocated monument.”The plaintiffs seek voidance of the award and to prevent the Center from submitting another one. Alternatively they seek damages or restoration of the statue. The suit claims the city broke the Freedom of Information Act and its own procurement rules. (read the petition here)The 2020 General Assembly passed legislation allowing localities to decide for themselves if they wanted to remove war memorials, which had been protected by state law. The Virginia Supreme Court ruled in April that that state law did not apply to either the Lee statue or another Confederate statue that formerly stood in a city park. (April 1, 2021 opinion in City of Charlottesville v. Payne)Belmont Bridge updateCrews working on the replacement of the Belmont Bridge will take a break today, Thursday and Friday. The Caton Construction Group has been working on removing the eastern span of the bridge, but will take some time off for the holiday, according to a press release from the city. However, work on a waterline between East South Street and Old Avon Street will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday. The work began this past summer after several years of planning and after Council agreed to spend $7.5 million in capital improvement funds to make up a cost over-run. Learn more at the project website at belmont-bridge.com. In today’s second Patreon-fueled shout-out:Algorithms know how to put songs and artists together based on genre or beats per minute. But only people can make connections that engage your mind and warm your heart. The music on WTJU 91.1 FM is chosen by dozens and dozens of volunteer hosts -- music lovers like you who live right here in the Charlottesville area. Listener donations keep WTJU alive and thriving. In this era of algorithm-driven everything, go against the grain. Support freeform community radio on WTJU. Consider a donation at wtju.net/donate.Nelson County Comprehensive PlanFans of Comprehensive Plan reviews can rejoice now that Nelson County has hired the Berkley Group of Bridgewater to conduct the first update of their plan since 2014. Dylan Bishop is the county’s director of planning and zoning. They’ll be paid $160,000 for the work. “When I first accepted this position two and a half years ago, I was aware that the Comprehensive Plan update was on the horizon,” Bishop said. “Over the last couple of years there have been a few roadblocks with that but it’s also given me a good opportunity to become familiar with the current Comprehensive Plan, zoning ordinance, and subdivision ordinances.”The current plan was written by the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission with an entity at the University of Virginia known as the Design Resources Center. (read the 2014 update)Bishop said the current plan does not lead the county’s land use and development decisions, and that that occurs now in the zoning ordinance.“When it’s done correctly, it should be an economic development tool,” Bishop said. “It’s often used as reference for grant applications such as Smart Scale, Virginia Outdoors Foundation grants, when you have something to point to that says our county already supports this.” Nelson County sent out a request for proposals this fall and receive three submissions. Two of the firms were interviewed and staff chose the Berkley Group. Public engagement will begin with a meeting in January.  “Once the final plan is adopted, they will follow it up with another diagnostic of the zoning ordinance and subdivision ordinances,” Bishop said. “They’ll generate recommendations that will make it consistent with our Comprehensive Plan. That will be the enforcement tool to set the vision of the comp plan as the years go on.” The Berkley Group is currently working on the Comprehensive Plan updates in Richmond County and Greensville County. They’ve recently concluded work in Northampton County and the city of Lexington. (Watch the Nelson BOS meeting)Charlottesville, Scottsville, receive flood-prevention funds Governor Ralph Northam has awarded an additional $24.5 million to help Virginia localities prepare for weather events associated with a changing climate. The money comes from Virginia’s proceeds from participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin has said he would end through an executive order after he takes office. In the meantime in this round, Charlottesville will receive $94,276 for “resilience planning and staff training” and the town of Scottsville will receive $123,346 for a planning study. Both communities were among 30 applicants for the second round of the Community Flood Preparedness Fund. In October, Charlottesville was awarded $153,500 in the first round for a project to create a two-dimensional model for the Moores Creek watershed. (Charlottesville awarded $153K for flood study from RGGI funds, October 6, 2021)Virginia became the first southern state to join RGGI in 2020 and has received $227,636,583.52 in the four auctions it has been a part of so far. Utility generators have to purchase credits to exceed a certain threshold of carbon emissions. Forty-five percent of the proceeds go to the Community Flood Preparedness Fund. According to their application, the city will put the money towards a Charlottesville Resilience Plan that will include taking an inventory of existing plans, identifying hazards and threats, and assessing vulnerabilities. “The City is applying for these grant funds to contract with an expert consultant to facilitate planDevelopment,” reads the application. “The consultant will co-create the plan at facilitated workshops with the City’s Resilience Team staff to increase staff expertise and capabilities.” The schedule anticipates the plan will be ready in mid-April. Scottsville will use the plan to develop to modernize its plans for dealing with floods. According to the application, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed a levee project in 1988 after a series of devastating floods in the mid-20th century.“This project connects to the town’s history and its future, assuring the continued safety from flooding, and laying the groundwork for new economic development,” reads the project narrative. The document goes on to state the town would like the Federal Emergency Management Agency to adjust the floodplain map to remove the designation for the former Kyosung tire factory in order to make it more attractive to redevelopment. They also want a new hydraulic model for downtown Scottsville. The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation will need to approve both documents. Resources:Charlottesville’s applicationScottsville’s applicationFull list of recipients on the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation’s webpageAlbemarle tree recyclingBeginning today, Albemarle’s Parks and Recreation Department will operate seven places where county residents can drop off Christmas trees for recycling. People are asked to remove all decorations, lights, stands, and nails before they are added to the pile. The trees will be chipped and converted into mulch. That mulch will be available beginning January 24 at both Darden Towe Park and Claudius Crozet Park. The locations:McIntire Recycling Center* – 611 McIntire Rd. Charlottesville, VA 22902Claudius Crozet Park – 1075 Claudius Crozet Park, Crozet, VA 22932Greenwood Community Center – 865 Greenwood Rd. Crozet, VA 22932Chris Greene Lake Park – 4460 Chris Greene Lake Rd. Charlottesville, VA 22911Darden Towe Park – 1445 Darden Towe Park, Charlottesville, VA 22911Scottsville Community Center – 250 Page St. Scottsville, Va 24590Walnut Creek Park – 4250 Walnut Creek Park North Garden, VA 22959Community members are asked not to bring any other yard waste, and are warned that the McIntire Recycling Center may be congested. Support the program!Special announcement of a continuing promo with Ting! Are you interested in fast internet? Visit this site and enter your address to see if you can get service through Ting. If you decide to proceed to make the switch, you’ll get:Free installationSecond month of Ting service for freeA $75 gift card to the Downtown MallAdditionally, Ting will match your Substack subscription to support Town Crier Productions, the company that produces this newsletter and other community offerings. So, your $5 a month subscription yields $5 for TCP. 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Charlottesville residents and members of Prolyfyck Run Creww Paul and Littlez join us for a conversation about running, community, and coaching. Paul and Littlez both successfully completed the 2021 Richmond VA Marathon in mid-November, along with many other Prolyfyck runners. If you're in Charlottesville, VA, you can join Prolyfyck at 6 AM (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) for a 4 mile run starting from the Jefferson School. Happy running! https://www.instagram.com/s1imstagram/ https://www.instagram.com/yunglittlez/

Our show today brings us https://robert-begley.com (Robert Begley), the Director of Operations and Development at the https://objectivestandard.org/about#staff (Objective Standard Institute) where we cover topics like our introduction to Ayn Rand's ideas, his involvement with The Heroes Society in New York city, and many other topics. Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services: https://objectivestandard.org/podcasts/the-hero-show (The Hero Show podcast) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_(band) (Rush (band)) https://www.rush.com/2112-spotlight-on-ayn-rand/ (2112 - Spotlight on Ayn Rand) https://www.shazam.com/track/2885773/anthem (Anthem (song)) https://amzn.to/3lb85lf (Brave New World) https://amzn.to/3zVQuUh (1984) https://peikoff.com/courses_and_lectures/understanding-objectivism/ (Understanding Objectivism by Leonard Peikoff) https://objectivistmedia.com/events/tjs-1985 (The Jefferson School (conference, 1985)) https://nyheroes.wordpress.com (The New York Heroes Society) https://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/32882/ (Hero Hike) - New York Magazine (May 31, 2007) https://youtu.be/TK4LYRR9OD0 (PBS Great American Read - Atlas Shrugged) https://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/books/#/book/Atlas%20Shrugged (Great American Read - Atlas Shrugged) https://objectivestandard.org/blog/how-i-got-atlas-shrugged-on-the-great-american-read (How I Got Atlas Shrugged on The Great American Read) https://tim.blog/2008/06/04/how-to-take-a-mini-retirement-tips-and-tricks/ (How to Take a Mini-Retirement: Tips and Tricks) https://objectivestandard.org/product/your-supersystem-for-flourishing-sept-2021 (Your Supersystem for Flourishing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Potential_Movement (Human potential movement) https://objectivestandard.org/blog/cal-newport-to-speak-at-tos-con-2021 (Cal Newport) https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/personal-development-market (Personal development market size) https://www.eofire.com/top-10-business-books-for-entrepreneurs/ (Top 10 business books for entrepreneurs) https://theobjectivestandard.com/2018/07/steve-ditkos-legacy-from-superheroes-to-moral-heroes/ (Steve Ditko's Legacy: From Superheroes to Moral Heroes) https://theobjectivestandard.com/2018/04/toastmasters-a-means-to-actualize-your-potential-and-improve-the-culture/ (Toastmasters: A Means to Actualize Your Potential and Improve the Culture) https://robert-begley.com/speaking-writing/ (Adventures in Greek Mythology, Philosophy, History, and Reality) Episode 30 (44 minutes) was recorded at 9 PM CET, on August 28, 2021, with https://ringr.com/ego (Ringr app).. Editing and post-production was done with the https://alitu.com/?fp_ref=egonetcast (podcast maker, Alitu). Support this podcast

In today’s Patreon-fueled shout-out, supporter Lonnie Murray wants you to know about a series of seminars on spring and fall landscaping with native plants. Plant Virginia Natives has held four of these already, but the next one is coming up on April 20 with Beth Mizell of Blue Ridge Prism on how to identify and eradicate invasive plants in Virginia. On today’s show: A review of Charlottesville City Council’s meeting from this past Monday, including a first reading of the budget and a discussion of performance metrics Council also adds the Starr Hill Vision Plan to the 2013 Comprehensive Plan as part of the appendix The eastern entrance to the Blue Ridge Tunnel will close for repairs to the parking lot beginning this Monday The University of Virginia will live-stream the dedication of the Memorial to Enslaved Workers Saturday morningThe bulk of today’s show deals with the Charlottesville City Council meeting from Monday, April 5. But before we get to that, here’s a few quicker stories. The unemployment rate in the Charlottesville Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) dropped to 4.8 percent February, down from 5.1 percent in January. That’s according to data released Wednesday by the Virginia Employment Commission. Statewide the rate in February was 5.4 percent, down from 5.7 percent in January. The unemployment rate in February 2020 was 2.1 percent in the Charlottesville MSA and 2.5 percent statewide.  Over in the Shenandoah Valley, the Staunton-Waynesboro MSA has an unemployment rate of 4.6 in February, down from 4.8 in 4.8 in January. In February 2020, those communities had an unemployment rate of 2.2 percent. Source: Virginia Employment CommissionTomorrow morning at 11 a.m., the University of Virginia will hold a ceremony to formally dedicate the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, which was completed last year but the pandemic prevented a public dedication. There are at least 4,000 people who built and maintained the University of Virginia from 1819 until Liberation Day in 1865. The event will be live-streamed. (UVA Today article)Tonight at 6 p.m., a group called the Descendants of Enslaved Communities at the University of Virginia will have its public launch on a virtual event that begins at 6 p.m. Speakers will be Dr. Andrea Douglass of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, Dr. Jody Allen of The Lemon Project at William and Mary, and Dr. Michael Blakey of the Montpelier Descendant Committee.  Registration is limited. (Descendant’s Day event)*The eastern parking lot of the Blue Ridge Tunnel in Nelson County will be closed for at least three weeks beginning Monday, April 12 so that it can be expanded. The director of the Nelson County Parks and Recreation department sent out an email stating that barriers will be placed on Afton Depot Lane and people will be stationed outside to direct people to the western trailhead which is in Waynesboro. Traffic congestion, over-parking, and litter have been issues on the eastern side since it opened last November. (more information) The view last November shortly after the tunnel opened for pedestrian passage (Credit: Victoria Dunham)The rest of this newsletter is dedicated to the Charlottesville City Council meeting from Monday, April 5. Let’s just go through it, more or less in order. As reported elsewhere, the Charlottesville School Board has entered into a $1.47 million contract with architectural firm VMDO to conduct design services for the reconfiguration of the city’s middle schools. VMDO has also been hired to put together growth and capacity scenarios for the entire school system. Source: December 19, 2018 Charlottesville School Board budget presentationThe capital budget before the City Council includes a placeholder of $50 million for the project, but more detailed analysis will yield a more accurate cost estimate. “The initial analysis of the existing buildings of the schools, the two buildings being Buford Middle School and Walker Upper Elementary School, have been completed including building envelope assessments, general building condition analysis, a building 3D digital modeling, and site survey,” Boyles said. A kick-off meeting will be held next week and community engagement will begin in early May. “An initial assessment of the findings are due back in June,” Boyles said. “While these will be preliminary and an initial assessment, it will begin to start giving feedback and data to the City Council and the Charlottesville School Board.” This week, several housing advocacy groups asked Council to help cover the legal costs of preventing evictions. The entire nation is currently under a moratorium imposed by the Centers for Disease Control that has now been extended to June 30, and groups are concerned that tenants will face renewed pressures once it is lifted. Boyles said Council has provided direction at work sessions this spring to provide resources. (CDC order)“We have engaged discussions with the Legal Aid Justice Center,” Boyles said. “They have presented some ideas of how this could move forward. At this point our recommendation is to utilize the American Recovery Plan funds that the city should be receiving.” Boyles said one possibility is for a two-year agreement between the Legal Aid Justice Center and the city. A community outreach person would be funded as part of this arrangement. “I do believe that the right direction to go is with contracting with someone like Legal Aid Justice Center and they have begun to work up what the cost estimates would be as soon as the American Recovery Funds are available, we can present that to Council for approval,” Boyles said. Virginia is also continuing to offer a rent relief program related to the pandemic. Councilor Lloyd Snook noted that many in Albemarle County had asked Council to increase funding for eviction prevention and to push for policies to protect tenants’ rights. “I would hope that there would be also be conversations with Albemarle County just as they are having with the city of Charlottesville,” Snook said. “I’ve been interested to note that roughly half of the letters that we have received in the last few days imploring the city to do something have been from county residents. And I’ve asked some of them if they’ve sent a comparable letter to the Board of Supervisors.” Boyles said he has already reached out to Albemarle to begin the conversations of working together. I put the question to Emily Kilroy, the county’s Director of Communications and Public Engagement. She said Albemarle does not have a specific eviction prevention program, but does fund Legal Aid Justice Center and Piedmont Housing Alliance to provide direct services.“Over the course of the pandemic, the Emergency Financial Assistance Program that the County is sponsoring through United Way has provided funds for rent, including referrals from the General District Court related to eviction petitions,” Kilroy said in an email. “The Housing Choice Voucher program has been able to increase subsidy payments to owners on behalf of our participants who may have lost their income during COVID and have done so, on several occasions.Later in the meeting, Council held a public hearing on the budget for FY22 which so far does not include any funding from the American Recovery Plan because staff wants to have a full sense of restrictions that may come with the money. However, Boyles said one of the first uses will be to fill the revenue shortfalls from FY21. Staff have been working to close a multimillion dollar budget gap. “While revenue projections are improving for FY21, we still estimate a $9.2 revenue loss for fiscal year 21,” Boyles said. Final budget adoption is scheduled for April 13. After that, Boyles is hoping to relaunch the city’s strategic planning process in order to inform future budgets. The current strategic plan was adopted in June 2017 and no one is left on Council from that time. “My vision is that as soon as we get through with this budget process, then we begin a strategic planning process that will start to lead us toward the FY23 budget,” Boyles said. A strategic plan is not to be confused with the Comprehensive Plan, which is a document intended to direct the development of land and public infrastructure. The strategic plan is intended to create policy objectives which then direct the work of the city’s employees as well as what the city chooses to fund. Mayor Nikuyah Walker said one of her main objectives is to ensure city funding for non-profits is tied to performance. “One of the major points that came out of the task force or working group meeting I convened or whatever we called it was to figure out how to get citizens input directly and not just have nonprofits be able to say that X people of number participated and thereby just by participating they get the dollars that there are allocated,” Walker said.For many years, Albemarle and Charlottesville participated in something called the Agency Budget Review Team in which a sixteen member team evaluated requests jointly.However, Council opted to go its own way beginning with the development of the FY21 budget in favor of something the Vibrant Community Fund. In her comments above, Walker was referring to the Measurement and Solutions Group which had been intended to meet to “identify appropriate measurements, benchmarks, solutions and metrics for the designated priority areas for use in The Vibrant Community Funding process.” Those priority areas are “Jobs/Wages, Affordable Housing, Public Health Care, and Education.” However, that process has been delayed by the pandemic. Boyles said the process would be improved for the next fiscal year.“For FY23 we want to come up with a means to be able to identify some of our nonprofit and community stakeholders and partners that will become more of a line item within the budget so that even though it is an annual basis, it be a little bit more definitive for them to know they’re going to get a funding of a certain amount every year,” Boyles said. A work session on the process going into the next fiscal year will be held in May.You’re listening to Charlottesville Community Engagement. What do you know about rock music? Want to put it to the test? Join WTJU virtually on April 16 for their first-ever Trivia Night at 8 p.m. Join a team in the virtual pub and put your screens together to answer rounds of questions with themes that relate to rock, radio, and local lore. There will be merriment! There will be prizes! Trivia Night is just three days before the beginning of the rock marathon, a seven-day extravaganza to help fund the station. Visit wtju.net to learn more!The entire plan can be downloaded from the New Hill Development Corporation's website (download) Council next took up the adoption of the Starr Hill Vision Plan to the City’s Comprehensive Plan. In November 2018, Council used $500,000 from its Equity Fund to pay the nonprofit New Hill Development Corporation to create a small area plan. Alex Ikefuna is the deputy director of the Neighborhood Development Services department.“Planning Commission and staff worked together,” Ikefuna said. “Originally it was a small area plan that because of the contents and the efficiencies in the land use it was agreed with the consultant that it would be submitted to the Planning Commission and subsequently to the City Council as a vision plan,” Ikefuna said. Yolunda Harrell is with New Hill Development Corporation, which was formed following conversations that began in July 2017 with former Councilors Wes Bellamy and Kathy Galvin. “This plan intentionally centers the Black community, not to the exclusion of others, but rather to the intentional inclusion of us,” Harrell said. “This plan specifically looks at opportunities to increase the street-level presence of sustainable, well-capitalized, existing and start-up Black-owned businesses.” Harrell said part of the work going forward will involved providing gap money to finance entrepreneurial efforts. From the land use perspective, the idea is to create multiple types of housing so as to cover different affordability ranges. “Whether you are a first-time homebuyer, a voucher-holder, or someone looking for the next phase of housing along their financial growth path, in this plan we have demonstrated how those opportunities can and will exist,” Harrell said. Harrell said the plan would build off of the work the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center has done to curate local Black history. The Jefferson School received $450,000 from the city’s Strategic Initiatives fund in FY2018 and another $500,000 in FY2019. “This plan also speaks to the need for gathering spaces where folks can connect or just simply be,” Harrell said. “Where they can be empowered to congregate and co-create, build and own, and innovate and learn.” Harrell said the 10.4 acre City Yard property offers the best chance to create new housing. Currently the city’s public works department is located in the space. City Council agreed to fund a $300,000 environmental remediation plan in FY20. Ikefuna said that money has not yet been spent. “While City Yard represents a genuine opportunity for new affordable housing as part of a mixed-use development, Starr Hill’s existing residential neighborhood must be sustained and strengthened,” Harrell said. Harrell said the plan offers suggestions on what could happen immediately. “Which is, creating housing on Brown Street, thus shoring up and strengthening the integrity of the existing residential neighborhood,” Harrell said. “This can be done while we explore other opportunities in the larger plan.”Looking west on Brown Street, April 8, 2021 (Credit: Sean Tubbs)Brown Street runs east-west between Cream Street and 5th Street NW and most of the parcels on the northern side are vacant. The city’s property records indicate there are 14 landowners on the street. In addition to the City Yard, the City of Charlottesville owns a 0.13 acre vacant lot at 609 Brown Street. Harrell suggested these properties could be be subdivided to create between 10 and 46 new residential units, including homeownership opportunities to first-time home buyers.  As for the greater City Yard, Harrell said the vision could yield many more places to live.“If we just look for a moment at the proposed vision, our city could gain upwards of 250 additional housing units not to mention the additional office and retail space to support the presence of Main Street, Black-owned businesses which can significantly change the social fabric of our community,” Harrell said. Source: New Hill Development CorporationThe plan also calls for the identification of 50 parking spaces for First Baptist Church on West Main Street, which Harrell said will eventually lose 50 spaces when the Amtrak parking lot is eventually redeveloped. There are no plans for that now, but Harrell said the Starr Hill Vision Plan identified that need for the future. But the main idea is to reconnect the city after decades of fragmentation using new infrastructure.“There is an important opportunity to restore and strengthen the connections between Starr Hill to a broader network of neighborhoods from Westhaven, 10th and Page, and Rose Hill to the Downtown Mall,” Harrell said. Councilor Lloyd Snook said he was interested to come up with a future for the City Yard, but had some concerns about adding this specific vision to the Comprehensive Plan.“A Comprehensive Plan, it seems to me, needs to be more than just here’s a possibility,” Snook said. “It has to be ‘we’ve made a decision that this is the possibility not just a possibility.’”Snook said the visioning work was a start, but the city is in the middle of a Comprehensive Plan process through the Cville Plans Together initiative. “I’m not sure we’re there yet,” Snook said. “I think you’ve given us a great start for a lot of discussions that we need to be having.”Harrell said they have met with the Cville Plans Together consultants, Rhodeside & Harwell, and have updated them on the plan.“They are just waiting for this plan to be adopted so that they can then roll it up into consideration of the overall plan,” Harrell said. “We did make suggestions on what zoning should happen and what ways the land could be used.”  Ikefuna said the Starr Hill Vision Plan did not have enough land use analysis and the level of detail required for a small area plan. “However, it has several contents such as housing, economic development, and placemaking part of which is the connectivity concept which Yolunda alluded to in her presentationFor City Yard to be developed, City Council would need to approve a plan to move Public Works elsewhere and there is no estimate for how much that would cost the city. But redevelopment would begin with remediation.“I don’t think you can reuse that site without remediation,” Ikefuna said. “Maybe the areas around Brown Street could be carved out and developed. It has a good potential for development for housing. But in terms of redevelopment of City Yard, there has to be remediation.” Harrell said the vision plan addresses remediation. The plan suggests the city consider enrolling in the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality’s Voluntary Remediation Program which can lead to grants to pay for clean-up efforts. The plan also lists previous efforts to document contamination at the site and noted that remediation may have a preliminary cost estimate of $3.4 million. Harrell said that the plan has taken previous studies into consideration and designates commercial uses in areas that might need remediation. Council voted unanimously to approve a motion to add the Starr Hill Vision Plan to the appendix of 2013 Comprehensive Plan, the same way that the Cherry Avenue Small Area Plan and the Hydraulic Area Plan were added. (see all approved city plans)That’s still not all from the Council meeting. I’ve clipped out audio for potential future segments on the 4-1 vote for an amendment of the special use permit for new apartments on Harris Street, action on changes to City Council rules related to expenditures of funds, and a presentation on the latest version of the Orange Dot Report from Piedmont Virginia Community College’s Division of Community Self-Sufficiency Programs. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at communityengagement.substack.com/subscribe

Charlotte Rene Woods updates us on an idea to create a mobile crisis unit to respond to 911 calls when there’s a mental health concern. And we talk to  Kaymin Hester, a Charlottesville High School student, whose essay about the twelve African-American students who integrated Charlottesville City Schools was awarded in the Jefferson School’s Liberation and Freedom Days essay contest.

There is a lot going on with digital health tools these days. Which ones are the good ones and which ones are nothing burgers packaged up in beautiful marketing? That’s a good question, and it would be nice to have a go-to source for such information. Some parties — mainly PBMs [pharmacy benefit managers] and to some extent payers and providers — recognize that this actually would be nice, and they see that creating digital formularies could be an opportunity to grow revenue for their shareholders by meeting a market need potentially and offering additional services to the marketplace. But the term formulary implies more than just some kind of health technology assessment. It implies, at least at some level, the promise of reimbursement. But given how local health care tends to be, especially when considering patient populations and the “bottom-up” nature of the doctor-patient relationship, here’s the question I have for you: Is it even possible for a third party, disconnected from the care setting and the patient, to “top-down” select the technology which will be used and reimbursed … especially in the age of consumerism? For more on the intersection of patients and provider digital tool selections, listen to episode 250 with Vicky Tiase from NewYork-Presbyterian.  In this health care podcast, I am speaking with Randy Vogenberg, PhD. Randy suggests that a more crowdsourced approach to digital health tool selection might be in order here. He says that those who are using the tools really need to have a seat at the table. He says that possibly the “formulary” within any given organization should be more of a consensus among stakeholders and less of a mandate from on high. But there are a lot of wrinkles … like, lots of wrinkles. Randy Vogenberg is board chairperson at the Employer-Provider Interface Council. He is principal over at the Institute for Integrated Healthcare. You can learn more at iih-online.com, epicouncil.org, and hope.rutgers.edu.  Randy Vogenberg, PhD, is principal at the Institute for Integrated Healthcare, co-leader for the National Employer Initiative on Specialty Pharmacy, and cofounder of the National Institute of Collaborative Healthcare (NICH). He is a health care expert on health system delivery and economics as well as health-related solution innovation research. Most recently he partnered with the Hospital Quality Foundation in developing the Employer-Provider Interface Council (EPIC). His broad hospital and managed care expertise includes current or future trends around financing, market excellence, and benefit management or design. A leader and highly requested speaker on applied health systems research, he has authored programs or books on self-funded health benefits, managed markets, hospitals, and integrated medical-pharmacy benefit management. His academic relationships include Rutgers HOPE Center and former senior fellow at the Jefferson School of Population Health. Currently, he is an adjunct professor at the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy and Presbyterian College School of Pharmacy as well as the University of Illinois College of Pharmacy. 02:51 What a digital formulary is. 03:52 PBMs and digital formularies. 04:41 The changing landscape of PBMs and digital health. 06:00 The intersection of PBMs and digital health tools. 10:18 “Arbitrage, full on.”—Mark Blum, from America’s Agenda. 12:21 The inherent differences between a health plan and a PBM. 15:58 The original purpose of a pharmacy/therapeutics committee. 16:58 “There’s a lot of change happening, is the bottom line.” 18:18 The risk assessment behind medical software. 18:29 Harm vs digital therapeutics and digital medicine. 18:52 Cybersecurity in digital therapeutics. 19:08 Reimbursement in digital therapeutics. 19:43 The question of “how” in reimbursement. 20:37 “How do we reset health care in just one state, let alone the whole country?” 22:13 Taxpayers, patients, and employers vs the health care industry. 22:56 The slow move away from fee for service, and why. 24:13 The timeline for incorporating digital tools into the health care system. 24:33 “It’s a real problem for the consumer side.” 25:09 “What’s really going to be worthy of reimbursement?” 25:50 “There’s only two major payers in the health care system … that’s the government, and it’s the private sector employers and state programs or unions.” You can learn more at iih-online.com, epicouncil.org, and hope.rutgers.edu.  Check out our newest #healthcarepodcast with @RandyIIH as he discusses #digitaltherapeuticformularies. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #digitaltherapeutics #PBMs and #digitalformularies. @RandyIIH discusses in our #healthcarepodcast. #digitaltherapeuticformularies #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #digitaltherapeutics The changing landscape of #PBMs and #digitalhealth. @RandyIIH discusses in our #healthcarepodcast. #digitaltherapeuticformularies #healthcare #podcast #digitaltherapeutics #digitalformularies The intersection between #PBMs and #digitalhealthtools. @RandyIIH discusses in our #healthcarepodcast. #digitaltherapeuticformularies #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #digitaltherapeutics #digitalformularies #Healthplans vs #PBMs—what’s the difference? @RandyIIH discusses in our #healthcarepodcast. #digitaltherapeuticformularies #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #digitaltherapeutics #digitalformularies What was the original purpose of a #pharmacy and #therapeutics committee? @RandyIIH discusses in our #healthcarepodcast. #digitaltherapeuticformularies #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #digitaltherapeutics #digitalformularies “There’s a lot of change happening, is the bottom line.” @RandyIIH discusses in our #healthcarepodcast. #digitaltherapeuticformularies #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #digitaltherapeutics #digitalformularies The risk assessment behind #medicalsoftware. @RandyIIH discusses in our #healthcarepodcast. #digitaltherapeuticformularies #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #digitaltherapeutics #digitalformularies Harm vs digital therapeutics and #digitalmedicine. @RandyIIH discusses in our #healthcarepodcast. #digitaltherapeuticformularies #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #digitaltherapeutics #digitalformularies #Cybersecurity in digital therapeutics. @RandyIIH discusses in our #healthcarepodcast. #digitaltherapeuticformularies #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #digitaltherapeutics #digitalformularies #Reimbursement in digital therapeutics. @RandyIIH discusses in our #healthcarepodcast. #digitaltherapeuticformularies #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #digitaltherapeutics #digitalformularies The question of “how” in reimbursement. @RandyIIH discusses in our #healthcarepodcast. #digitaltherapeuticformularies #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #digitaltherapeutics #digitalformularies “How do we reset health care in just one state, let alone the whole country?” @RandyIIH discusses in our #healthcarepodcast. #digitaltherapeuticformularies #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #digitaltherapeutics #digitalformularies Taxpayers, patients, and employers vs the health care industry. @RandyIIH discusses in our #healthcarepodcast. #digitaltherapeuticformularies #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #digitaltherapeutics #digitalformularies “It’s a real problem for the consumer side.” @RandyIIH discusses in our #healthcarepodcast. #digitaltherapeuticformularies #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #digitaltherapeutics #digitalformularies “What’s really going to be worthy of reimbursement?” @RandyIIH discusses in our #healthcarepodcast. #digitaltherapeuticformularies #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #digitaltherapeutics #digitalformularies “There’s only two major payers in the health care system … that’s the government, and it’s the private sector employers and state programs or unions.” @RandyIIH discusses in our #healthcarepodcast. #digitaltherapeuticformularies #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #digitaltherapeutics #digitalformularies

On March 1, 2020 Bree Newsome Bass and Zyahna Bryant were featured on a panel in Charlottesville at the Jefferson School of African American Heritage titled: Racial History and Black Feminism. Listen to the highlights of the panel as we dive back in time to re-live the brave moment of Newsome Bass removing the confederate flag in 2015 PLUS Virginia's own, Zy Bryant is celebrated as her portrait is added to an exhibition. Thank you to both as they work to remove confederate symbols, and congrats to VA for passing a bill for localities to control the future of their war memorials. #MonumentalJustice

In this episode of Critical Matters, we discuss acute neuromuscular disorders in the intensive care unit with Dr. M. Kamran Athar. The discussion focuses on the Guillain-Barre Syndrome and Myasthenia Gravis. Dr. M. Kamran Athar is a practicing neuro intensivist at the Farber Institute for Neuroscience in Philadelphia. Dr. Athar is an assistant professor of Medicine and of Neurology at the Jefferson School of Medicine in Philadelphia. Additional Resources: The clinical management of neuromuscular disorders in intensive care: https://bit.ly/2wWlYe1 Early predictors of mechanical ventilation in Guillain-Barré syndrome: https://bit.ly/2Icb1vi International consensus guidance for management of myasthenia gravis: https://bit.ly/2Ic2g4I Books Mentioned in this Episode: How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman: https://amzn.to/2ZmHSmV

In this episode we take a tour of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center with its director, Andrea Douglas, as she traces the process of integration in the Charlottesville schooling system. Then, we rejoin Pat Edwards on her porch as she reminisces on what the integration experience meant to her. Support the show (http://studycenter.net/support-study-center)

The House of Vans pop-up brings an indoor skate park, art galleries and live music to the empty classrooms and hallways of the Jefferson School in Midtown.

Day two LIVE From HIMSS is brought to you by Qlik. Broadcast schedule is 11AM - 1PM Wednesday, March 7th 2018. Guests 11:00  Dr. George Reynolds – Industry thought leader, retired Qlik user @GeoReynoldsMD 11:15 Rob MacKay Aginic 11:30 Eric Nilsson, SSI Group 11:45 Jordan Morrow Qlik 12:00 AVAILABLE 12:15 Nick van Terherden MD @DrNic1 12:30 Dr. Geeta Nayyar, MD, MBA - Industry thought leader @gnayyar 12:45 Charlie Farrah, Qlik/April Smith, Jefferson School of Population Health Management For more information on HIMSS, click here, for more information on Qlik,click here. 

On PopHealth Week, March 20th 2017 David Nash, MD, MBA the Dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health is our guest.  In this exchange we get Dean Nash's insights on the current state of health policy and reform including a preview of  the upcoming 17th Population Health Colloquium. Dr. Nash's bio notes: David B. Nash was named the Founding Dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health (JSPH) in 2008. This appointment caps a 25 year tenure on the faculty of Thomas Jefferson University. He is also the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy. JSPH provides innovative educational programming designed to develop healthcare leaders for the future. Its offerings include Masters Programs in Public Health, Healthcare Quality and Safety, Health Policy and Applied Health Economics. JSPH also offers a doctoral program in Population Health Science. Dr. Nash is a board certified internist who is internationally recognized for his work in public accountability for outcomes, physician leadership development, and quality-of-care improvement. Repeatedly named to Modern Healthcare’s list of Most Powerful Persons in Healthcare, his pro bono national activities cover a wide scope.  For more information, click here.

On PopHealth Week, March 20th 2017 David Nash, MD, MBA the Dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health is our guest.  We'll get his insights on the current state of the ACA, the assessment of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) and a preview of  the upcoming 17th Population Health Colloquium. Dr. Nash's bio notes: David B. Nash was named the Founding Dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health (JSPH) in 2008. This appointment caps a 25 year tenure on the faculty of Thomas Jefferson University. He is also the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy. JSPH provides innovative educational programming designed to develop healthcare leaders for the future. Its offerings include Masters Programs in Public Health, Healthcare Quality and Safety, Health Policy and Applied Health Economics. JSPH also offers a doctoral program in Population Health Science. Dr. Nash is a board certified internist who is internationally recognized for his work in public accountability for outcomes, physician leadership development, and quality-of-care improvement. Repeatedly named to Modern Healthcare’s list of Most Powerful Persons in Healthcare, his pro bono national activities cover a wide scope.  For more information, click here.

Bee Work Bonus! Experience an apiary through your ears! Last week in Episode 44, we met Amanda Welch of Grubby Girl. Bee farmer and charmer. This week, we're donning our suits and heading out into the field to check on the hives. Because beekeeping is not a weekend hobby. Bees live precarious and fragile lives these days. It takes a lot of work to keep the immune systems of bees thriving and the hives healthy. So if you've ever wondered what an apiary sounds like, join us! Follow along on our journey by using the photographs below. Or if you're listening in your car or on the treadmill, just enjoy the sounds of bees, birds, doggies and the occasional Spring breeze. Trust me, it's good for whatever ails you. I walked away from this experience feeling like I'd just taken a 2-hour meditation class. Favorite parts? I learned what a bee "traffic jam" sounds like. Whether bees are calm or agitated, you can really hear the difference. Did you know each queen has a name? Beatrix was my personal favorite. After taking Amanda's class in March, having this 360-degree experience was a field trip for the mind and soul. Interested in learning more? Contact Amanda to find out more about the bee classes she teaches at the Jefferson School in Charlottesville, Virginia. Then go buy some honey or bath products to round out your apiary experience. Grubby Girl products are sold at the Saturday City Market, the Thursday UVA market, and on her website. This is meant as a companion piece to Episode 44, which I'm posting as an experimental, experiential "bonus". Because I've got big dreams about expanding Edacious. Finding a dedicated podcast space. Getting better equipment. Maybe even renovating a food truck or "Canned Ham" to take to festivals for live events. Would you pay $.99 for an episode like this? Buzz at me in the comments. Cheers!

Bee Work. Welcome to Episode 44 where we meet Bee Charmer and Farmer Amanda Welch of Grubby Girl. Amanda has been a fixture at the Charlottesville City Market for years, selling her all-natural soaps, bath products, and granola, all produced with honey harvested at Meeting House Farm. I've loved her Farmer Person soap for a while. So nice and gentle with a honeysuckle scent that wafts about you without the threat of the plant taking over your entire garden. I could use her Cucumber Mint right now with this heat! So it was a thrill to finally sit down and talk about the triumphs and challenges of running an apiary. I first met Amanda when I took her bee class at the Jefferson School where I learned there's more to running an apiary than meets the eye. It is not a lovely, pastoral Martha Stewart project. This is real farming. To be successful you've got to have some knowledge of working with livestock, picking up on non-verbal cues to prevent the variety of diseases and issues facing our bee population. It's a lot of work and definitely not a weekend hobby. With our overabundance of pesticides it's a real challenge to keep their immune systems strong and the hive healthy and pest free. Bees are facing extinction. That's a fact. So in my mind Amanda is doing the most important work possible. Without pollinators we have no trees. No crops. No environment. They are delicate creatures and the overuse of pesticides threatens their very existence. But bees weren't always so fragile. Our dependence on pesticides and herbicides like Roundup have made them sick and their very existence has become precarious. Colony collapse is a real thing. We discuss this as well as the very real divide between conventional and organic agriculture. Why pesticides are a death knell for bees. When they collect pollen and nectar from plants treated with pesticides they get a non-lethal dose which they end up taking back to the hive. It builds up in the hive, the wax, and the population. Which means we are getting that in our own bodies. Bees have immune systems just like humans. Items like lemon balm tea and spearmint oil boost the health of bees the way probiotics do. They also prevent pests. Can't afford to keep a hive? No worries, go plant some lavender, tansy, echinacea, and mint. Even if you can't have a hive, you can help the health of our bees and make sure they stick around a good long while. What's the best way to make sure the honey you're getting is free of pesticides? We discuss that in this episode. Bees have seasons just like apples, corn, and tomatoes. They hibernate in winter since they physically cannot move if the temperature falls below 40 degrees. So it's very important the person keeping the hive makes sure they have enough food to last. Then in early Spring, bees collect nectar and the Queen starts to produce more young bees call the Brood. A brand new hive requires the bees to build wax to store the honey which is eight times more effort than just producing honey. This also happens in Springtime. Once established, bees collect in earnest and start producing honey from about mid-late April to mid-July. One year Amanda collected 400 pounds of honey from 18 hives. Wow! Honey is a natural anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, and sealant. Capped honey never expires and doesn't need refrigeration. So enjoy that honey sitting in the back of your cabinet. If it's raw and all-natural, it's probably just fine. What work is being done to breed a stronger type of bee able to handle our modern pesticide-full environment? What are some common misconceptions? Are there health benefits to royal jelly? Do bees have personalities? Why is the Queen the most important member of the hive? What's the difference between Workers and Drones? What does it mean when a hive swarms? Is it possible to have a honey that tastes of just one flavor? Like lavender? Listen to find out! Did you know Amanda's family wrote a memoir? Tragically she lost both her parents at a young age which of course affected the entire family. You can find the book, The Kids Are All Right at Amazon. And no, it's not the movie with Annette Bening and Mark Ruffalo. Like other local small businesses, Amanda got some help from the Community Investment Collaborative (CIC). She has also trademarked the Grubby Girl name. We talk about it. Valuable information for anyone out there in the same boat. Like me. We also talk extensively about concerns revolving around the current incarnation of the Charlottesville City Market. What's good? What needs fixing? What needs to happen? Is having numerous farmer's markets around the city at different times the answer? This is a terrifically ambient episode recorded in the Spring. You'll hear birds, bees, and her lovely Newfoundlands. Need a lift? Join the conversation and give a listen. You can find Amanda's products on her website, at the Saturday Charlottesville City Market, the UVA Hospital Farmer's Market on Thursdays, and The Virginia Shop. Go grab you some! This episode is sponsored by In A Flash Laser Engraving.

Best Food Business Advice. What if you got almost 100 local food business folks together to learn and share how to be more successful and avoid common pitfalls? You'd have the Business of Food Conference held June 20th at the Omni. I was thrilled to be named a Community Partner and spent the day recording interviews, gathering valuable tips and information to strengthen our food community. The result is five terrific short interviews, each one offering a different viewpoint from a unique area of our local food scene. First up is Melissa Meece, owner of Firefly Restaurant and Arcade, a living tribute to its founder Mark Weber, who passed away from cancer in January 2015.  His girlfriend Melissa inherited the restaurant and carries on his legacy and wish to create a community space around food, games, and fun. Through craft beers, ping pong, skeeball, pinball, board games and a great menu of family friendly favorites, Firefly does this and so much more. And the tips Melissa had for encouraging other food businesses to share their story and their history with customers are ones you don't want to miss. I'd love to have her on a future podcast - Firefly is a great space, and Mark's spirit lives on in the smiles of its patrons. Next up is Cass Cannon, owner of Peg's Salt. Not your ordinary table salt, Peg's is a special seasoning salt using kosher flake and 25 different spices. A secret family recipe created by her mother Peg. I use it on pasta but you could literally throw it on any food to make it taste just a bit better. Peg's Salt can be found in over 40 stores throughout the region including Whole Foods, Greenwood Grocery, Great Value in Crozet, and Ellwood Thompson in Richmond. I loved hearing the story of how this public relations expert took an old family recipe and her love for marketing to create a successful artisanal food business. You will too. A terrific lady and someone I hope to talk with again. Third we have Eric Breckoff, Program Head and Associate Professor of Culinary Arts for PVCC at the Jefferson School. In this role, Eric teaches, supervises other faculty, and performs important administrative duties like managing purchasing and the budget. Important for a program like PVCC, which currently has 15 students who have recently completed their that 2-year program and 14 young chefs enrolled in their first year. PVCC's Culinary Arts program includes five semesters and covers every aspect of food business and the culinary arts. Sure there are classes in knife skills and sautéeing, but also nuts-and-bolts courses in cost control, purchasing, menu planning, nutrition, and food safety and sanitation. I loved hearing about the behind the scenes aspects of running a restaurant. The unglamorous aspects you rarely hear about, but are just as important as running a successful business. Because as Eric so rightly stated, without them the whole ship sinks. Arley Arrington of Arley Cakes is a former artist who translated her passion for the visual into beautiful edible creations. Have you seen her Instagram? Wow! Gorgeous stuff! She should teach next year's breakout session on food photography! I first tasted Arley's creations at Brookville Restaurant, where Arley has waitressed on and off for the past five years and where Chef Harrison Keevil suggested one day, "Hey, why don't you come in next Tuesday night and bake a pie?" Thus a food business was born. Recently Arley has branched out into wedding cake territory. How did she learn the fine craft of icing roses and tiered cake skyscrapers? Why are visual aesthetics so important to her and her new food business? Listen to find out. Her thoughtful responses are so reflective of the supportive food community in Charlottesville that I continue to discover and be constantly amazed by. We truly live in a special place folks. And I'm eager to have Arley on sometime for a much longer conversation. Lastly, but by no means leastly, we have Marty Butts of Small Potatoes, who specializes in food business consulting. Marty was a featured speaker at the conference, and my personal favorite. The minute he opened his mouth at his first breakout session, I knew I had to speak with him.  In our conversation we talk about the pluses and minuses around Yelp, but more importantly, how he teaches his Foodshed Model to help businesses learn what exactly is "local" and what isn't. Which is unique to each area of our country. And infinitely complex. Marty discovered his passion when he looked around his community of Syracuse, New York and saw many food producers who had difficulty expanding beyond their immediate region. By stepping in to help, sometimes acting as a sales representative, other times acting as a marketing guru, he helped these producers succeed in an ever-changing market. This led to a career in consulting and education, traveling the country to speak at events about the complex world of local, organic, sustainable. Marty's mission is to help small food businesses grow. His past experiences working as a buyer and merchandiser in food co-ops and grocery stores has also helped him spread knowledge where it needs to go. The Johnny Appleseed of local, organic, sustainable if you will. Helping get people engaged with local food in emerging small-scale food producing markets like Charlottesville, Virginia. Is local 100 miles or 300 miles? When you see buzzwords like additive-free, organic, all-natural, what should you expect? What does each term mean exactly? It can get very specific but Marty helped navigate this complex arena. Connection, community, inclusiveness, transparency, strong relationships. All are important core values in small food businesses. How do you grow locally, regionally, nationally? Transparency especially is becoming increasingly important. Just ask any farm to table restaurant in Tampa. Or the folks at Chipotle. Is a sense of place important? What aspects of a community make its food scene unique? Should you build your brand according to a sense of place? Build it around where you're from because that creates a unique identity? And does this uniqueness help or hurt as you attempt to expand? What does Marty think is a good example of that? And which business does exactly that and is the one he noticed first upon arriving in Charlottesville? Listen to find out! Food has cultural impact. As he says so well, chefs and farmers are treated like rock stars these days, helping to define the culture of a community while at the same time being one of the building blocks of local economy. Which is very powerful. And very cool. Marty is such an amazing speaker, knowledgeable and interesting and quick. I did the ugly laugh more than once. I absolutely loved our conversation and I know you will too, as well as all of the other great local folks I talked with during this year's Business of Food Conference. Enjoy! Important Tips for Food Business Owners That Came Up During Our Conversations: It's important to keep open communication, both between an employer and employee and between an owner and their customer. Use video on your homepage to tell the story of your business Do you have a mission statement? What are your business's core values? Before you do anything else with your business, do this. Human resources law which is an important, but often overlooked aspect of a food business. In the hiring process, what questions can you ask and not ask? In the old days restaurant kitchens were the Wild West, but these days a wrong word or action can derail a business. How do you stay ethically and legally compliant? What technology, social media, or apps do these folks use to make running their business easier? Are folks moving away from Facebook toward visual social media like Instagram and Pinterest? Being able to take a great picture of your product is becoming more and more important every day. And not always possible under dim restaurant lights. Packaging is so important and often overlooked. If your bottle of barbecue sauce is too tall to fit within a store set it might be relegated somewhere to the back. Or the buyer may not purchase it at all. Making sure your product displays well, and is the right amount size-wise, is just as important as your branding. Even if you've been in business a while, there is always more to learn. Things like taxes, accounting, finances, and regulations change all the time which is why conferences like this are so valuable. Get away from your business sometimes to learn and network! SHOW NOTES – Links to resources talked about during the podcast: The Charlottesville 29 Restaurant Auctions - Every dollar you bid goes toward four meals for our area's hungry. Auctions close DAILY starting yesterday so bid early and often for the chance to win a once-in-a-lifetime culinary experience! Central Virginia Small Business Development Center - Need help with your small business? SBDC offers one-on-one counseling for free and many events and courses, often free or for just a small fee. The Sporkful Podcast - Is the burrito a sandwich or not? This fun podcast asks and answers the important questions. This episode is sponsored by In A Flash Laser Engraving.

Join Dr. Mike Lenoir, as he discusses the war on cancer with Dr. Edith Mitchell an internationally known oncologist from Jefferson School of Medicine. She is also the president of the African-American physicians in the National Medical Association. Dr. Mitchell will discuss her agenda as president, the impact of cancer on African-Americans, and our progress in the war on cancer. The post About Health – Are We Winning the War on Cancer appeared first on KPFA.

Sourced from the Population Health Colloquium 2015 in the 'City of Brotherly Love' my colleague and and co-founder of PopHealth Week Fred Goldstein @fsgoldstein sits down with the amazing Esther Dyson @edyson the inspiration and visionary behind The Way To Wellville fka 'HICCup'.  We get a lay of the landscape on the vision and upside of this novel approach to health via the basics of healthy community engagement and the broad spectrum impacting the social determinants of health. This segment was produced by Gregg Masters @2healthguruHealth Innovation Media for the Jefferson School of Population Health (@JeffersonJSPH) on behalf of Dean David Nash, et al. Enjoy! 

On the inaugral re-launch of our show to 'PopHealth Week' see: 'From This Week in Accountable Care to PopHealth Week' and 'Some Thoughts on Population Health, its Definition(s) and the Providers Role', David Nash, MD, MBA the founding and current Dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health joins co-hosts Fred Goldstein (@fsgoldstein), CEO, Accountable Health LLC and Gregg Masters, MPH (@2healthguru), Founder & CEO of Health Innovation Media.  Join us Wednesday May 20th, 2015 at 12 Noon Eastern/9AM Pacific as we learn more about population health and population medicine from one of the country's most distinguished voices on this subject. For more information 

Dr. David Nash board certified internist and the founding Dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health on the campus of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. This is the only School of Population Health in the nation. Dr Nash is internationally recognized as a leader  promoting the transition of care from volume to value Robyn Benincasa World Champion Eco-Challenge Adventure Racer, CNN Hero, New York Times Bestselling Author, Founder of the 501c3 Project Athena Foundation, 3x Guinness World Record Distance Paddler, Proud Owner of 2 Metal 'Bionic Hips' and Full Time San Diego Firefighter Robyn Benincasa definitely knows a thing or two about creating Human Syngery--or as Robyn puts it, "that magic that allows groups of ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things together."   Michael Eastham founding principal of Fellowship Financial Group in Altamonte Springs, Florida. Mr. Eastham has been involved in financial services for over twenty five years. He is an active member of the American Institute of CPA's and has earned their Personal Financial Specialist designation Dick Beardsley international best selling author, but he is one of the world's most extraordinary, respected, and compelling motivational / inspirational speakers.   He is also the subject of a feature film, entitled Against the Wind.  He has been the keynote speaker at Fortune 500 companies, non-profit organizations, conferences, conventions, corporate events, fundraisers, sporting events, prisons, schools and drug treatment centers, to name a few. He has spoken to countless number of groups all over the world, ranging in size from 5 people to 15,000 people!  He has a gift of making people laugh, cry and most importantly, think and appreciate life to the fullest, despite any ups and downs that may come along

On a special edition of 'This Week in Health Innovation' at 1PM Pacific/4PM Eastern March 25th 2015, join @efuturist Douglas Goldstein and me Gregg Masters @2healthguru for an impromptu and raw wrap-up with key takeaways from the 15th Annual Population Health Colloquium organized by David Nash, MD, MBA the founding and current Dean of the the Jefferson School of Population Health on the campus of the Thomas Jefferson University. This was an amazing conference in the 'City of Brotherly Love' aka Philadelphia.  We conducted no fewer than 15 interviews with keynote speakers to session moderators and toured the landscape from the implications of global risk contracting to incremental progress from the fee for service to fee for volume paradigm shift. Join us for an informal recap of this no 'Johnnie come lately' to the Population Health conversation and discovery journey. In fact, some may say the event is perhaps the 'grand-daddy of them' all. Enjoy!      

On a special edition of this Week in Health Innovation on March 6th, 2015 at 12:30PM Pacific/3:30PM Eastern join me and Population Health Alliance, Executive Director Fred Goldstein for a deep dive conversation with Jefferson School of Population Health founding and current Dean, David Nash, MD, MBA. 'Dr. Nash is a board certified internist who is internationally recognized for his work in public accountability for outcomes, physician leadership development, and quality-of-care improvement. Repeatedly named to Modern Healthcare's list of Most Powerful Persons in Healthcare. He was named the Founding Dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health (JSPH) in 2008. This appointment caps a 25 year tenure on the faculty of Thomas Jefferson University. He is also the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy. JSPH provides innovative educational programming designed to develop healthcare leaders for the future. Its offerings include Masters Programs in Public Health, Healthcare Quality and Safety, Health Policy and Applied Health Economics. JSPH also offers a doctoral program in Population Health Science.' We'll dive into the emerging science and specialty of 'population health' and preview with upcoming Population Health Colloquium held in Philadelphia from March 23-25th, 2015. For details on the Colloquium click here.  Join us!

On a special edition of This Week in Health Innovation on November 18th, 2014 at 12 Noon Eastern and 9AM Pacific we continue the series 'Countdown to the PHA Forum' with David Nash, MD, MBA and Betsy Farrell, RN. Dr. David Nash is the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy and a board-certified internist who is internationally recognized for his work in outcomes management, medical staff development and quality-of-care improvement appointed as the Founding Dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health in 2008.  The Jefferson School of Population Health (JSPH) provides innovative educational programming designed to develop healthcare leaders for the future. Its offerings include Masters Programs in Public Health, Healthcare Quality and Safety, Health Policy and Applied Health Economics and Outcomes Research. JSPH also offers a doctoral program in Population Health Science. Betsy A. Farrell, RN is Director of Performance Management at Aetna where she oversees teams of professionals who deliver strategic development for care management programs, process excellence, and change management. She also holds a Bachelor of Science from Charter Oak State College and a Master Black Belt in Six Sigma and Lean from Villanova University. Join PHA Board Chair and Executive Director Fred Goldstein and me for an informative chat and preview of the PHA Forum 2014.    

Healthcare Executives Network Interviews Dr. David Nash David B. Nash, MD, MBA Dean Jefferson School of Population Health Philadelphia, PA 19107   David Nash was named the Founding Dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health (JSPH) in 2008. This appointment caps a 20-year tenure on the faculty of Thomas Jefferson University. He is also the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy. JSPH provides innovative educational programming designed to develop healthcare leaders for the future. Its offerings include Masters Programs in Public Health, Healthcare Quality and Safety, Health Policy and Applied Health Economics and Outcomes Research. JSPH also offers a doctoral program in Population Health Science. Dr. Nash is a board-certified internist who is internationally recognized for his work in outcomes management, medical staff development and quality-of-care improvement. In 1995 he received the top recognition award from the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy. He received the Philadelphia Business Journal Healthcare Heroes Award in October 1997, and was named an honorary distinguished fellow of the American College of Physician Executives in 1998. In 2006 he received the Elliot Stone Award for leadership in public accountability for health data from NAHDO. In 2009 Dr. Nash received the Wharton Healthcare Alumni Achievement Award. In 2012, he received both the Joseph Wharton Social Impact Award and the Philadelphia Business Journal Medical Education Innovator of the Year award.   Repeatedly named to Modern Healthcare’s list of Most Powerful Persons in Healthcare, his national activities cover a wide scope. He serves as an Industry Advisor for the VHA Center for Applied Healthcare Studies and he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Population Health Alliance (formerly CCA). Dr. Nash is a principal faculty member for quality of care programming for the American College of Physician Executives in Tampa, Florida, and leads the academic joint venture between ACPE and the JSPH.   Dr. Nash is a consultant to organizations in both the public and private sectors. He has chaired the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (HC4) for more than a decade and he is widely recognized as a pioneer in public reporting of outcomes. In December 2009 he was named to the Board of Directors for Humana Inc., one of the nation’s largest publicly traded healthcare companies. He recently retired from the Board of Endo Health Solutions, a publicly traded pharmaceutical company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. In October 2013 he joined the board of Vestagen, a privately held advanced medical textile company in Orlando, FL. He is on the Board of Main Line Health – a four hospital system in suburban Philadelphia, PA. From 1998–2008, he served on the Board of Trustees of Catholic Healthcare Partners in Cincinnati, Ohio where he chaired the Board Committee on Quality and Safety.   Through publications, public appearances, his “Nash on the Road” blog, and an online column for MedPage Today, Dr. Nash reaches more than 100,000 persons every month. He has authored more than 100 articles in major journals. He has edited 22 books, including Connecting with the New Healthcare Consumer, The Quality Solution, Governance for Healthcare Providers, Health Care Quality: The Clinician’s Primer, Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness, and most recently, Demand Better. From 1984 to 1989 he was Deputy Editor of Annals of Internal Medicine. Currently, he is Editor-in-Chief of four major national journals including American Journal of Medical Quality, Population Health Management, P&T, and American Health and Drug Benefits. Dr. Nash received his BA in economics (Phi Beta Kappa) from Vassar College; his MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and his MBA in Health Administration (with honors) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, he was a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar and Medical Director of a nine-physician faculty group practice in general internal medicine.   Please visit: http://Jefferson.edu/population_health/ and his blog at http://nashhealthpolicy.blogspot.com   HealthcareExecutivesNetwork.org