Insight Treatment has provided counseling for teenagers in the valley for more than 30 years. To help more teenagers, this month they are announcing an expansion of their focus on mental health. 

According to the CDC, "more than a third (37%) of high school students reportedly experienced poor mental health" and "44% reported that they felt sad or hopeless during the past year." 

Originally a warehouse, Insight Treatment's Van Nuys location was specifically designed to be a place for counseling teenagers that also had a "clubhouse" feel so that teenagers would want to come. 

Today, the Van Nuys location offers a "Day Program," which is a therapeutic, drug and alcohol-free day school program for students best served by being away from a more traditional school setting. Additionally, it also features an Intensive Outpatient Program, where clients attend daily groups or sessions and also take part in structured weekend plans. 

Beyond that, the Van Nuys location also serves as a "hub" for Insight. Multiple events are hosted by their clinical staff there: external community events, AA meetings, internal clinical training, events with other treatment providers, and more. 

All of this is overseen by Insight's Executive Clinical Director, Dr. Daryn Plancher. 

"We're proud to have been able to help teenagers as well as their families for more than three decades. Teenagers and their parents have always faced struggles, but the struggles that many have had to deal with in recent years are unique. We've seen more teenagers struggling with their mental health than ever before so we wanted to respond to that. We've always helped with mental health and recently, we've made it a focus. Always, we encourage parents who feel that their teen may have a mental health problem, something that lingers, to reach out to us. We're looking forward to helping for many years to come," said Dr. Daryn Plancher. 

At the Van Nuys location, currently, a limited number of scholarships are available for families in the valley. 

The Van Nuys location is actually the second Insight Treatment location but the first to have been a warehouse. Currently, Insight Treatment also has locations in Pasadena, El Segundo, Santa Clarita, Modesto, Merced, El Monte, and San Diego. 

To learn more about therapy for teens in the valley or to schedule a free assessment, contact Insight Treatment at (888) 295-9995. 

LOKI Mk2

AARDVARK Tactical and Sky-Hero are pleased to announce the release of the world's first National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)-compliant interior use tactical sUAS, LOKI Mk2US. The Mk2US is built to comply with the rigorous standards set forth in the NDAA and the recent Department of Defense black-listing of certain Chinese-made drone parts and technologies.  

In response, Sky-Hero, the world's leading manufacturer of interior tactical robotics, redesigned and resourced the LOKI Mk2 to eliminate all of the covered Chinese components and replace them with European or American items.  

Speaking about this new drone, Yves Coppye, CEO of Sky-Hero, stated: 

"We have been asked by many of our top users around the world to ensure that all major components are built by NATO countries. After two years of work, we are pleased to announce that we have reengineered and redesigned these components and located American or European sources for them."

Jon Becker, AARDVARK's CEO, echoed this by stating: 

"We are extremely excited to see Sky-Hero release an NDAA-compliant version of LOKI. While there are a number of products on the market that claim to be American, in reality, the large majority of drones are simply built with Chinese-made parts and at best assembled in the U.S. LOKI Mk2US has always been made by NATO allies and now every NDAA-covered component will be too." 

The LOKI Mk2US will begin shipping in Q1 of 2023. LOKI Mk2 is sold exclusively in North America by AARDVARK. Visit LOKI.AARDVARKTactical.com to learn more.

About AARDVARK: Founded in 1987, AARDVARK is a leading manufacturer, distributor, and system integrator of products to protect tactical operators from Local, State, Federal, and Military Units. AARDVARK is headquartered in La Verne, CA.

About SKY-HERO: Founded in 2013, Sky-Hero is a dynamic, flexible, fast-growing company specializing in drones and robotics and located in Brussels. With a target market in civil security, their clients range from Police Special Forces to International Security companies, mountain rescue teams, and firefighters.

About LOKI-Mk2 - LOKI Mk2 is a rugged, purpose-built sUAS intended to act as a scout for close-quarter, confined space, and indoor missions. LOKI Mk2 requires no internet service, no GPS, no phone or tablet connection, and has no forced software updates, making it mission capable in seconds from virtually anywhere. LOKI Mk2 performs in almost any lighting condition, seamlessly transitioning from sunlight to complete darkness. 

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AQuity Solutions, an industry leader in tech-enabled clinical documentation and medical coding solutions, today announced it received the #1 top-performing company for Virtual Scribing, Medical Transcription, and Clinical Documentation Capture solutions by Black Book™ Market Research for the ninth consecutive year. AQuity earned the distinction through independent survey results collected from 2,786 users representing hospitals, health systems, ambulatory facilities, and physician practices. 

AQuity received the #1 ranking over 20 vendors who were evaluated across 18 key performance criteria, earning top scores in:

• Strategic alignment of client goals
• Innovation and optimization
• Client relationships and cultural fit
• Trust, accountability, transparency, and ethics
• Breadth of offerings, client types, delivery excellence
• Integration and interfaces
• Scalability, client adaptability, flexible pricing
• Brand image and marketing communications
• Data security and backup services
• Support and customer care
• Best-of-breed technology and process improvement

"AQuity is committed to service excellence, and focused on helping Providers, health systems, and independent physician practices accurately and efficiently capture the patient story and improve provider wellness throughout," added Jason Kolinoski, COO for AQuity. "We are proud and humbled to be ranked as the top-performing company for the ninth time in this Black Book™ Market Research report."

"Our solutions transform the clinical documentation experience, giving Providers back a significant amount of time to focus on patients," noted Regina Buchwald, VP of Worldwide Operations at AQuity. "We are proud to be recognized by Black Book ™ Market Research and our customers for helping transform their clinical documentation workflows."

"It's an honor to be recognized again for our worldwide team who wake up every day committed to making a difference in the lives of providers and the patients they serve," added Kashyap Joshi, CEO of AQuity. "Most importantly, we are grateful to our clients, trusting and allowing us to play a vital role in delivering differentiated solutions that yield better outcomes in their clinical documentation strategy."

About AQuity

Headquartered in Cary, NC, AQuity employs over 7,500 clinical documentation and medical coding professionals across the United States, India, Australia, Canada, and the U.K. With over 45 years of experience in service and technology solutions. AQuity is recognized year after year by KLAS and Black Book as a leading vendor in multiple disciplines. AQuity is privately held. https://aquitysolutions.com/

About Black Book™

Black Book Market Research LLC provides medical transcription clients, healthcare IT users, media, investors, analysts, quality-minded vendors, and prospective software and services buyers with comprehensive comparison data of the industry's top respected and competitively performing solutions vendors. The largest user opinion poll of its kind in healthcare IT, Black Book™ collects over 900,000 viewpoints on information technology and outsourced services vendor performance annually. Black Book is internationally recognized for over 17 years of customer satisfaction and loyalty polling, particularly in technology, services, and outsourcing industries.

Black Book™ founders, management, and staff do not own or hold any financial interest in any of the vendors covered and encompassed in this survey including AQuity Solutions.

TOOTRiS
Child Care On-Demand

Starting Oct. 28, National First Responders Day, and in commemoration of the more than 4.6 million first responders nationwide, TOOTRiS Child Care On-Demand is providing free access to millions of first responder parents. 

More than 25% of American families say finding Child Care is a nightmare, and for first responders (fire fighters, police, EMTs, nurses) who work long and varying hours, the challenge is even greater.

To ease the burden and provide help, TOOTRiS, the nation's largest network of Child Care providers, is launching its First Responder Honor Gift program. With the gift, first responders who sign up will get free access to TOOTRiS' Premium Child Care platform free of charge for a full year. This allows first responders to access over 180,000 licensed Child Care providers nationwide, 24x7, enabling them to search, vet, and enroll their children in real-time quality Child Care programs for full-time, drop-ins, emergencies, before and after school, during standard and non-standard hours, no matter where they live and work.

"Children and their families are at the core of what we do at TOOTRiS just as first responders are at the core of our communities," said Alessandra Lezama, TOOTRiS CEO and select member of the ReadyNation CEO Task Force on Early Childhood. "TOOTRiS is humbled to be able to give back to first responders in a way that makes life better for their entire family."

First Responders who'd like to receive the First Responder Honor Gift should visit Honor Gift for more information and eligibility. 

About TOOTRiS

TOOTRiS was founded in 2019 to transform Child Care so that every person, in every city, in every state has access to affordable Child Care options. TOOTRiS is the only technology platform that integrates the entire Child Care ecosystem (children, parents, providers, employers, and service organizations). This makes finding Child Care more convenient, affordable, and on-demand. 

Visit TOOTRiS.com for more information.

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Jeff McAdam
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(720) 988-0984

HealthJoy
HealthJoy is a healthcare navigation platform that is simplifying the healthcare and benefits experience for every member.

HealthJoy, a healthcare navigation platform that drives benefits satisfaction, improves care outcomes, improves employee satisfaction and reduces HR burden, today announced it has raised $60M in Series D funding. Valspring Capital led the round with participation from new investors Endeavour Vision and CIBC Innovation Banking. Existing investors US Venture Partners, GoHealth co-founders Brandon Cruz and Clint Jones, Health Velocity Capital, Nueterra Capital and Epic also participated in this round. 

This new investment brings the total funding raised by HealthJoy to $108M, and will be used to accelerate growth while maintaining the best user experience in healthcare navigation. 

"This is a special moment in our journey to create an intuitive, connected experience that takes the confusion and complexity out of healthcare while reducing the ever-growing administrative burden faced by HR leaders," said Justin Holland, CEO and co-founder, HealthJoy. "As we enter 2023, employers will continue to be challenged to add new point solutions. Due to the hard work and dedication of our global team, we are in the strongest position we have ever been to support employers in this new era."

As the workforce moves from 'The Great Resignation' to 'The Great Realization' and employees reevaluate how to live happier, healthier and more fulfilling lives, the battle for talent is intensifying. Employers find themselves under immense pressure to deliver benefits that provide increased value, attract talent and satisfy existing employees while balancing rising costs and decreased resources. 

HealthJoy is powering HR leaders through this new era by enabling them to minimize healthcare costs, maximize benefits engagement, reduce administrative burden and improve employee well-being. The company provides in-depth healthcare benefits navigation to over 1000 U.S. employers, supporting the management and delivery of world-class healthcare benefits to nearly half a million employees and dependents. 

Aneesha Mehta, co-founder of Valspring Capital and former Partner at Bain Capital Ventures, said, "We're thrilled to invest in HealthJoy and accelerate their impressive platform growth. As users of healthcare technology ourselves, we genuinely identified with a core issue that HealthJoy fights: a serious lack of benefits awareness that leads to under-utilization by employees. Offering a solution that simplifies benefits is a key differentiator in the talent war the market currently finds itself in. We look forward to amplifying HealthJoy's solutions as we've seen the value they bring firsthand."  

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ABOUT VALSPRING CAPITAL

Established in 2022, Valspring is a Boston-based growth equity firm founded by the former healthcare investment team of Bain Capital Ventures. With deep sector expertise and a proven track record, we invest in growth-stage companies in the healthcare industry, focusing on the information technology, technology-enabled services and services sectors. Valspring is purpose-built to support scaling the best teams and solutions to achieve outsized impact and accelerate commercial adoption.

ABOUT ENDEAVOUR VISION

Endeavour Vision is a venture capital and growth equity firm founded in 2000, which invests in growth-stage digital health, medical device, and diagnostics companies in the U.S. and Europe. Its investments are focused on transformative healthcare technologies that bring superior clinical benefits for patients and significant efficiencies to healthcare systems. The firm partners with companies in the early stages of commercializing game-changing technologies and actively supports them beyond capital with strategic and operational expertise. To learn more, visit www.endeavourvision.com. 

ABOUT HEALTHJOY

HealthJoy is a healthcare navigation platform that is simplifying the healthcare and benefits experience for every member. HealthJoy provides a connected healthcare experience that takes the confusion and complexity out of healthcare by connecting members with the right benefits at the right moment in their care journey. Their mobile-first platform and human concierge team bring benefits together to surface the best providers, virtual care, and savings. To learn more, visit healthjoy.com. 

Immuware
Immuware

Immuware, a Chicago-based software company that provides innovative immunization and illness tracking systems, is excited to announce the launch of a new referral program for clients. The recently developed program will reward clients for referrals by providing referring organizations with a credit of $2,500 toward their next invoice for any referrals that sign a contract of three years or more.

The new referral program is intended to thank Immuware's existing clients for recommending the company's software products to other users. And because the program is ongoing, organizations can continue to refer Immuware as many times as they'd like, receiving a $2,500 credit each time a client signs on for a three-plus-year contract term.

Immuware's quick-to-deploy software solutions are essential for organizations that require tracking illness and injuries among employees. Through key system features like real-time dashboards, automated end-to-end compliance workflows, HIPAA-secure cloud hosting, and a permission-based online employee portal, Immuware makes it easy to maintain accurate data on employee immunization, illness, and injury status, regardless of the size or scope of a workforce.

Clients enjoy flexible and scalable features for employee and occupational health monitoring, with comprehensive solutions that raise the bar for what organizations can expect out of their health tracking software. And through the referral program, Immuware hopes to help even more clients save time and money and reduce the errors that can come with manual reporting.

Immuware clients have been shown to reach compliance at least 40% faster than non-users, and have a dedicated partner in tracking all of the data that matters to the health of their workforce and facilities. This means that not only are organizations able to easily meet mandatory regulatory requirements, but they are also able to better protect the employees who are crucial to their day to day operations.

Current Immuware clients are encouraged to participate in the new referral program and take advantage of big savings on one or more future invoices. As previously mentioned, clients will be credited $2,500 for every organization they refer that signs on for a three or more year contract with Immuware, and can gain this credit every time they make an eligible referral.

To learn more, please visit the Immuware homepage for additional information on Immuware software features and benefits, or contact Immuware directly today.  

About Immuware

Immuware is a software company and consulting firm that provides businesses in the healthcare, energy, education, and government sectors with secure and easy-to-use health tracking solutions. Immuware applications include innovative vaccination management and illness tracking software, plus streamlined compliance status dashboards that increase accountability and take the guesswork out of identifying compliance gaps.

Visit www.immuware.com for more information.

Contact:
Immuware
(312) 505-1443
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