Event Date: April 20 to 22, 2017
Boise Quilt, Craft & Sewing Festival is coming to Boise, April 20 to 22
The show features nearly 125 booths with a wide variety of supplies, notions, patterns and techniques in the areas of quilting, sewing, needle-arts, stenciling, embossing, crystals, fabric crafts and more.
Boise, Idaho, April 7, 2017 - The Boise Quilt, Craft & Sewing Festival will be held at the Expo Idaho (5610 N Glenwood St, Boise, ID 83714), on April 20-22, 2017. www.quiltcraftsew.com. The first show of its size and kind to come to Boise, Idaho will be free of charge to attend.
The Festival features nearly 125 booths with a wide variety of supplies, notions, patterns and techniques in the areas of quilting, sewing, needle-arts, stenciling, embossing, crystals, fabric crafts and more. Many booths will feature new cutting edge products that are brand new to the market. To create excitement, the Festival owners will be giving away $500 cash all three mornings, just before the doors open (20 winners split the $500).
There will be free demonstrations and also make and take workshops for all skill levels and interests. Visitors will be able to see, try and buy the latest and greatest supplies for your creative projects.
Event times are 10 AM - 5 PM Thursday & Friday; 10 AM - 4 PM Saturday.
Admission: Free with coupon here: http://quiltcraftsew.com/Boise/Boise2017coupon.pdf. For the show program, additional information, programs or directions, visit: www.quiltcraftsew.com.
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UTAH ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER PARTNERS WITH NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA FOR THE WORLD’S LARGEST MOBILE PET ADOPTION EVENT, 2017 TOUR FOR LIFE™
Life-Saving Tour Rolls Into Salt Lake City With Adoptable Pets
WHAT: Utah Animal Adoption Center joins North Shore Animal League America’s 2017 Tour For Life™ – the world’s largest national cooperative life-saving mobile pet adoption event - sponsored by Purina®. Highlighted by adoptable dogs, cats, puppies and kittens, the event will also offer a vaccination clinic open to the public, shelter tours and Purina® giveaways for all attendees.
From the beginning of March to the end of April, Tour For Life™ will travel throughout the United States from North to South and East to West in four “shelters on wheels” Mobile Pet Adoption Units helping shelter and rescue groups in 54 cities and towns in 32 states, over 20,000 miles to generate more awareness of their organizations and find homes for the adorable, adoptable animals in their care. To find out more about a Tour For Life stop near you, you can visit animalleague.org.
WHEN: Friday, April 7th from 11 am – 5 pm
WHO: Adoptable dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens
WHERE: Utah Animal Adoption Center
1955 N Redwood Road
Salt Lake City, UT 84116
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Award Recognizes Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital, Intermountain Medical Center,and Physician Partners at University of Utah School of Medicine
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, USA, April 7, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital, the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine, and the shock trauma intensive care unit at Intermountain Medical Center are among the recipients of the 2016 John M. Eisenberg Award for Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality for their work as part of a patient safety research group.
The prestigious Eisenberg Award is presented annually by The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum (NQF), two leading national organizations that set standards in patient care.
Intermountain Primary Children’s and the University of Utah School of Medicine were among the original nine members of the pediatric I-PASS Study Group, which since has expanded to more than 50 adult and children’s hospitals from across North America.
The Study Group is dedicated to improving patient safety by standardizing provider communication during patient handoffs to reduce miscommunication that can lead to harmful medical errors. I-PASS is the acronym for the Illness severity, Patient summary, Action list, Situational awareness and contingency planning, and Synthesis by receiver.
“It’s incredibly humbling to have realized that the work of so many people across the country is being brought to fruition through this award,” said Raj Srivastava, MD, assistant vice president of Research for Intermountain Healthcare and one of six members of the national I-PASS Executive Council and part of the Primary Children’s research team. “Really, it’s a culmination of so many people in different roles, the front-line caregivers across all these 50 hospitals, all working on this relentless journey toward keeping our patients safer and delivering the highest quality care.”
I-PASS is a proven bundle of interventions created to reduce communication failures during patient handoffs. In a large multi-center study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2014, implementation of I-PASS was associated with a 30 percent reduction in medical errors that harm patients. An estimated 80 percent of the most serious medical errors can be linked to communication failures, particularly during patient handoffs. Handoffs occur at all changes of shift and whenever a patient changes location in a hospital.
In 2015, the I-PASS handoff tool was implemented in the Shock-Trauma Intensive Care Unit at Intermountain Medical Center and 32 other internal medical programs nationwide.
“Standardized handoffs using the I-PASS methodology at Intermountain Medical Center has resulted in improved patient safety without a major effect on efficiency,” says Scott Stevens, MD, director of the transitional year residency program and vice-chair of the Department of Medicine at Intermountain Medical Center. “Since it was first implemented in our Shock-Trauma ICU, it resulted in a 23 percent reduction in medical errors, a 30 percent reduction in preventable adverse events, and a 21 percent reduction in near-misses — while increasing the time per handoff only minimally, from 2.4 minutes to 2.5 minutes.”
Primary Children’s and the University of Utah School of Medicine are participating in another study using the I-PASS model to gauge how family-centered rounding affects medical errors. Family-centered rounding is a practice in which doctors’ daily patient rounds are done in the presence of the patient and his or her family. This enables open discussion of a child’s diagnosis, treatment, and care plan, and allows families and nurses to ask questions and provide input as part of that process.
“The I-PASS model is way of looking at health care and its delivery, and finding innate ways to integrate interventions within the system to improve patient safety,” said Brian Good, MD, University of Utah School of Medicine and Hospitalist at Primary Children’s, one of the study’s lead physicians. In family-centered rounding, “it starts a discussion,” he said. “In the end, patients are better off for that.”
Intermountain Healthcare is a not-for-profit system of 22 hospitals, 180 clinics, a Medical Group with about 1,500 employed physicians and advanced practitioners, a health plans group called SelectHealth, and other medical services. Intermountain is widely recognized as a leader in transforming healthcare through high quality and sustainable costs. For more information about Intermountain, visit www.intermountainhealthcare.org.
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AFP Report: Utah Importers Would Pay More With Border Adjustment Tax
Policy would cost Utah’s 11,100 importers up to $668,000 per year
Salt Lake City – Americans for Prosperity released a report today that estimates how Utah businesses would be impacted by the harmful border-adjusted tax that some Washington politicians want to include in a comprehensive tax reform package. The report says on average, an individual importer in the state of Utah would have a huge new tax burden of $668,000. Even with some adjustment to the value of the dollar, the 11,100 importers in the state would end up with a tax burden that amounts to 71 percent of all federal business income taxes paid in Utah in 2014.
The report, produced in conjunction with Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, uses publicly available data to illustrate the burdensome costs this 20-percent tax would have on individual importers and quantifies the dramatic new tax burden across all importers in Utah.
AFP and Freedom Partners both support reforms to make the tax code simpler and more competitive, but they oppose including the border-adjusted tax because it amounts to a trillion-dollar tax hike on American consumers. The groups say this consumer tax would drive up the cost of most everyday goods for consumers across Utah and the nation— everything from food and clothing to toys and school supplies.
Click here to view the report:
Border Adjustment: The Impact Across the States
Americans for Prosperity-Utah State Director Evelyn Everton issued the following statement:
“Americans have been demanding comprehensive tax reform for years, and we have a great opportunity to deliver a system that works for every American – but we can’t have an import tax like this. Especially when we find out Utah consumers and businesses would bear the brunt of this tax by forcing importers to pay more— they would end up with a tax burden equal to most of what all Utah businesses paid the federal government in 2014. While some republicans think a BAT will help jobs, the reality facing Utahns is a crushing financial blow that will hurt job growth and limit opportunity. This is a bad deal for every state that would have to face a consumer tax, but especially for Utah, which bears the brunt of this policy. This hurts the very consumers we want to help with tax reform.”
Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Partners policy experts are available to discuss the methodology used in this report, along with its implications for Utah’s economy.
For more information about this report, or to arrange an interview, reach Evelyn Everton at 801-641-0037.
KEY REPORT FINDINGS
· Every U.S. state would be harmed by a blanket tax on imported goods, especially those in which imports already play a substantial role in the economy.
· Even with partial dollar appreciation, a 20 percent import tax could mean billions in new taxes for businesses in many states.
· These cost increases would fall directly on importers – and subsequently consumers – with the auto and retail industries among the hardest hit.
· In some states, the tax bill on imports under BAT could be double, triple or even quadruple the size of all federal business taxes the state currently pays.
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