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EX Program By Truth Initiative® And McLeod Health Join Forces To Help Employees, Patients Live Tobacco Free
With Support from Truth Initiative, the EX® Program Brings Personalized Quit Smoking Tools to the McLeod Health Employee Wellness Program
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®, the national public health organization inspiring lives free from smoking, vaping and nicotine, today announced that it is joining forces with McLeod Health, a leading healthcare network.
The EX Program will be available to the nearly 8,900 employees working for the McLeod Health system of hospitals and physician practices in northeastern South Carolina. The McLeod Healthier You Program will integrate the EX Program into its overall wellness package for employees. With the EX Program, McLeod Health will now provide all employees who use tobacco including smokers with chronic conditions such as diabetes or heart disease tailored support to quit.
University of Minnesota’s App Helps Pedestrians Cross Street Recent trials show the new smartphone app, PedNav, is about 95 percent effective in communicating with traffic control systems and audio directions, and can aid the visually impaired to cross the street. Tim Harlow, Star Tribune | February 10, 2021 | News
(TNS) Crossing urban streets can be dangerous for people who are blind or visually impaired, but a new smartphone app in development at the University of Minnesota could make it easier and safer.
Recent trials conducted in downtown Stillwater found the app, called PedNav, was about 95 percent accurate in accessing traffic signal control systems and sending correct auditory and visual messages to tell pedestrians when it was safe to cross the street.