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American Community Development Group, Inc. Expands Donation Services to Include Cars, Trucks and Real Estate - MarketWatch
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Aug 3, 2010 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- American Community Development Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets:ACYD) announced today that it will launch an advertising and marketing campaign through the websites hotcharityweb.com and hotautoweb.com, designed to raise between $1 and $3 million in annual vehicle and in kind donations to benefit local non-profits and charity organizations. "We expect to add additional charity and fundraising events to increase donations to the causes we support, notably Veterans, Drug and Alcohol rehab groups, Aging out of Foster Care children, and ex-offenders," said John Folger, President and CEO.
Max Media Group, Inc. (Hot Web Properties) is a public company /quotes/comstock/11i!mxmi (MXMI 0.02, 0.00, -20.00%) with various interests across the automotive spectrum. They originate web and radio content for specific automotive markets, and have developed a national capacity to pick up, repair and rehabilitate cars, trucks, boats and RV's that are donated for charity purposes. Jim Grady, President of Max Media Group, Inc., described the growth of this type of charitable fundraising as "significant, especially when an area company coordinates funding for local charities, so that neighbors really are helping their own neighborhoods."
American Community Development Group Inc. (ACYD) is a fast track socially responsible commercial real estate investment firm that generates increased profits by purchasing distressed properties to house vast numbers of people in need. The company is growing quickly because its tenants are usually clients of non profits and government agencies, many of which have some government sponsorship. Tenants are veterans, children aging out of foster care, recovering addicted clients and ex-offenders coming out of incarceration. This unique niche market offers greater tenant density, which greatly improves cash flow. The company also purchases businesses, thereby adding additional revenues that employ these extremely dedicated and motivated clients.We believe in the concept of "social entrepreneurship" as stewards of our investors' and our own resources while also creating strong economic returns on capital.
ACDG has chosen this growth field because it offers stable growth and a socially conscious application of the talents of its founders. ACDG has signed agreements with non-profits that have been providers of services and that operate missions for the homeless, ex-offenders, drug and alcohol programs as well as housing facilities for other disadvantaged people in the Tampa Bay, Florida area.
Affordable Housing
"We are acquiring interests in multi-family, affordable housing and other high occupancy commercial real estate properties. We will break new ground as a national provider of these affordable housing services by specializing in residents that have been previously under-served. As a for-profit company, we have the ability to acquire, renovate and manage group housing, primarily apartments and mobile home parks. We will dramatically increase cash flow through greater population density combined with efficient and professional property management." Folger related.
Job Creation is Profitable Enterprise
The second focus of ACDG is to create jobs appropriate to the same disadvantaged citizens further supporting social entrepreneurship. These jobs will be created in various enterprises that require minimal capital versus their return through profits. The enterprise will be created through acquisition of profitable businesses or the launching of franchise type businesses that meet our employment and profitability criteria.
ACDG is creating multiple non-profit relationships nationally that have an ongoing need for both housing and job creation, and have government assisted agreements to assist in placement of disadvantaged citizens. ACDG projects 90% occupancy rates can be accomplished over a 90 day period with each new property acquired.
The corporate principals of ACDG are experienced property developers and managers on a national level in residential/commercial real estate. They also have a wealth of experience in emerging growth of public and private entities, capital markets, and merger/acquisition strategies.
Mission Statement
Rebuilding America, One Life at a Time!
Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements: Except for historical information contained herein, the statements in this press release are forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause the company's actual results in future periods to differ materially from forecasted results. These risks and uncertainties include, among other things, product price volatility, product demand, market competition, risk inherent in the company's domestic and international operations, imprecision in estimating product reserves and the company's ability to replace and expand its holdings.
This news release was distributed by GlobeNewswire, www.globenewswire.com
SOURCE: American Community Development Group, Inc.; Max Media Group, Inc.
CONTACT: American Community Development Group, Inc. John Folger, President (727) 902-4108 jfolger@acdginc.com www.americancommunitydevelopmentgroup.comSaint Petersburg, Florida 33714(C) Copyright 2010 GlobeNewswire, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Johns Hopkins researcher speaks out: arrogance of doctors is killing tens of thousands of patients
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(NaturalNews) Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, is a professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Although he works right in the heart of mainstream academic and clinical medicine, Dr. Pronovost is taking an unusual and even heroic step and speaking out about medical errors. Tens of thousands of people are dying unnecessarily, he says, and one main reason involves the enormous arrogance of many doctors.In his commentary, published in the July 14 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Dr. Pronovost, who is a patient safety expert, argues no measurable, achievable and routine strategies to prevent patient harm even exist in the health care industry. In fact, he states there are too many barriers in the way to attain workable ways to protect patients -- and at the top of the list is the arrogance of doctors "who are overconfident about the quality of care they provide or always believe things will go right and aren't prepared when they don't, and of hospital officials who fail to aggressively address problems like hospital-acquired infections."
In his JAMA paper, Dr. Pronovost points out that each year about 100,000 people die from health care-associated infections, another 44,000 to 98,000 die of other preventable mistakes and tens of thousands more die from diagnostic errors or failure to receive recommended therapies. Unfortunately, there is limited evidence these patient outcomes are improving, either. "It's unconscionable that so many people are dying because of these arrogance barriers," Dr. Pronovost said in a statement to the media. "You can't have arrogance in a model for accountability."
There is one area where patient safety is improving -- in the area of central line-associated bloodstream infections -- at least, in a few hospitals. Although these deadly infections remain common, enormously expensive and kill over 30,000 Americans a year, they are now known to be largely preventable due to Dr. Pronovost's own research and innovations. He introduced a simple checklist into hospital intensive care units (ICUs) at Johns Hopkins and then the entire state of Michigan. Wherever the checklist was consistently used, these life-threatening infections were reduced to almost zero.
However, here's the most surprising part of this story. Dr. Pronovost admits it wasn't only his checklist that led to the dramatic improvements in patient safety in these ICUs. The infection rate was reduced in ICUs where nurses were finally allowed and even encouraged to question doctors who had previously been treated as god-like experts who were not to be challenged.
When nurses spoke out about physicians who might have skipped a step or otherwise violated safety protocols, infection rates plummeted. Dr. Pronovost says the bottom line is this: patient safety must be put ahead of individual egos.
So are all hospitals and physicians getting on board to follow the checklist and to change hospital culture so they can prevent ICU infections and save tens of thousands of lives? The answer is a resounding and disappointing "no". Dr. Pronovost reports US hospitals have been extremely slow in enrolling in the program. In some states, less than 20 percent of hospitals have volunteered to participate.
"Some hospitals have reduced infections, most have not. Some hospitals claim they use the checklist, despite having high or unknown infection rates. Some hospitals are content to meet the national average, despite evidence that these rates may be reduced by half. Some hospital administrators say their patients are too sick; these infections are inevitable. Yet, intensive care units in several large academic hospitals have nearly eliminated CLASBIs, or central-line associated bloodstream infections. Some hospitals blame competing priorities for their inattention to these infections," Dr. Provonost writes. "If these lethal, expensive, measurable, and largely preventable infections are not a priority, what is?"
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