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The American Heart Association (AHA) has now formally voted to join several other cardiovascular societies to form a new professional certification board for cardiovascular medicine, to be known as the American Board of Cardiovascular Medicine (ABCVM).  

The ABCVM would be independent of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), the current organization providing maintenance of certification for cardiologists along with 20 other internal medicine subspecialties. The ABIM's maintenance of certification process has been widely criticized for many years and has been described as "needlessly burdensome and expensive."

The AHA will be joining the American College of Cardiology (ACC), Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA), Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), and Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) in forming the ABCVM. 

These four other societies issued a joint statement in September saying that they will apply to the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) to request an independent cardiology board that follows a "new competency-based approach to continuous certification — one that harnesses the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to sustain professional excellence and care for cardiovascular patients effectively."

The new board requirements will "de-emphasize timed, high stakes performance exams in the continuous certification process and instead will focus on learning assessments to identify gaps in current knowledge or skills," the statement noted.

At the time the September statement was issued, the AHA was said to be supportive of the move but was waiting for formal endorsement to join the effort by its board of directors.

That has now happened, with the AHA's national board of directors voting to provide "full support" for the creation of the proposed ABCVM.

"We enthusiastically join with our colleagues in proposing a new professional certification body to accredit cardiovascular professionals called the American Board of Cardiovascular Medicine," said the association’s volunteer president Joseph C. Wu, MD. "The new ABCVM will be independent of the ABIM and focus on the specific competency-based trainings and appropriate ongoing certifications that align with and strengthen skills for cardiovascular physicians and enhance quality of care for people with cardiovascular disease," Wu said.

"The AHA joins the consortium to submit the application to the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) requesting an independent medical board for cardiovascular medicine. The consortium's robust proposal harnesses the knowledge, skills, and benchmarks appropriate for professional excellence and delivery of effective, high-quality cardiovascular care," Wu added.

The leaders of the ABCVM will include professional representatives from the consortium of member organizations, with a specific focus on relevant education, trainings, and supports that recognize the increasing specialization in cardiology and the latest advances in the various subspecialties of cardiovascular medicine, the AHA notes in a statement.

Professional certification by ABIM is a condition of employment for physicians practicing in large hospitals or health systems. A dedicated certification board separate from ABIM will help to ensure that cardiovascular professionals are maintaining the expertise appropriate to high-quality care and improved outcomes for their patients, the AHA said.
 

Automotive Lift Institute (ALI) marked the tenth anniversary of the ALI Lift Inspector Certification Program and the formation of its Associate Class with a celebration at the Shelby Heritage Center in Las Vegas on Oct. 30. Over the last 10 years, ALI Certified Lift Inspectors have conducted more than 1.3 million lift inspections to help keep technicians safe on the job, according to ALI.

Some 250 ALI Associate Class members, lift inspectors, manufacturing member representatives and other industry professionals attended the anniversary celebration.

All vehicle lifts should be inspected at least annually by a qualified lift inspector to ensure they are operating properly and are safe for continued use, ALI said.

This is mandated in the ANSI National Standard covering vehicle lift operation, inspection, and maintenance, ANSI/ALI ALOIM (current edition). ALI said it developed its Lift Inspector Certification program to provide a resource for standardized lift inspection procedures and qualified lift inspectors to perform them. ALI added it was the first – and remains the only – program to establish lift inspector credentials and to independently test and certify inspectors who are qualified to inspect any type of lift. There are currently 560 ALI Certified Lift Inspectors, with about as many more candidates making their way through the certification process in support of U.S. and Canadian lift inspection services. 

ALI Certified Lift Inspectors are authorized to perform Check360^TM Certified Lift Inspections, the only lift inspection backed by ALI to meet the national lift safety standard.

With the development of the lift inspector certification program, ALI also expanded its membership beyond lift manufacturers, ALI said. Any North American organization with at least one ALI Certified Lift Inspector on staff may join ALI as an Associate Class Member, giving them access to exclusive industry resources, training materials and discounts. They also elect an Associate Class representative to the ALI Board of Directors. ALI currently has more than 300 Associate Class member companies who are represented on the Board by Gary Wainwright of Weco, Inc. 

“I’m proud to have been part of the growth and success of the ALI Lift Inspector Certification Program over the last 10 years,” he said. “During that time, ALI Certified Lift Inspectors have conducted more than 1.3 million lift inspections and applied nearly 1 million program labels to lifts that passed. It’s a true testament to the inspectors in the field, ALI staff and the integrity of the program. With all of our continued hard work, along with much-needed new inspectors, who knows what the next 10 years will hold in store for us!” 

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Study.com is pleased to announce that its K12 Learn solution has been awarded the Research-Based Design for Instructional Learning Products: Product Certification from Digital Promise. This esteemed certification demonstrates the company's commitment to leveraging research on learning sciences to inform and enhance the design of their learning platform.

The Research-Based Design Product Certification from Digital Promise signifies that Study.com's K12 Learn has undergone a rigorous evaluation process, demonstrating a substantial integration of research-based principles into its instructional design. This certification serves as a valuable resource for educators, school leaders, and families seeking educational technology that is grounded in proven methodologies for effective learning.

"We are honored to receive the Research-Based Design Product Certification from Digital Promise. This recognition reaffirms our dedication to providing educators and students with a learning platform that is not only innovative but also backed by sound research principles," said Chris Mancini, Chief Growth Officer. "At Study.com we open the door to the life changing impact of education, and this certification underscores our commitment to delivering high-quality, evidence-based solutions."

Study.com's K12 Learn is a comprehensive educational platform offering a range of curriculum, skills practice, and assessment components designed to support diverse learners in middle and high schools. The solution features multimedia microlessons, repeated practice, and built-in supports to facilitate personalized instruction. With seamless integration into major Learning Management Systems, Study.com's K12 Learn empowers educators to streamline teaching tasks and focus more on instruction.

Currently adopted in over 10,000 school districts, Study.com's K12 Learn embodies pedagogical innovation by providing evidence-based personalized learning tailored to diverse learners across all subjects with a focus in science and social studies curriculum. The platform's ability to address the multifaceted challenges in education today positions it as a beacon of effective pedagogy.

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The certification process involved Study.com submitting comprehensive evidence to Digital Promise, showcasing the alignment between the product's design philosophy and research on how students learn. The company also demonstrated its commitment to transparency by making this research accessible to the public.

Christina Luke Luna, Chief Learning Officer, Pathways and Credentials at Digital Promise, remarked, "Digital Promise's Research-Based Design Product Certification recognizes the edtech products that incorporate research about learning into their design and development. Congratulations to Study.com's K12 Learn for demonstrating that research informs product design!"

The Research-Based Design Product Certification employs a competency-based learning framework, developed in collaboration with Digital Promise's Learner Variability Project advisory board, expert researchers in the Learning Sciences field, and educators across the United States. Additional details about the framework's development can be found in Digital Promise's reports, "Designing Edtech that Matters for Learning: Research-Based Design Product Certifications (2020)" and "An Overlooked Indicator of Edtech Quality: The Use of Learning Sciences Research (2022)."

Study.com opens the door to the life-changing impact of education for over 30m learners and educators a month through K12 curriculum, college courses, tutoring, and test preparation. Used in over 10,000 school districts nationwide, Study.com is recognized by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) for meeting Level IV evidence standards. Headquartered in Mountain View, CA, Study.com is named on the 2022 and 2023 GSV150, a list of the world's most transformative private companies in education. The company has donated $27 million across social impact programs committed to increasing educational equity. These programs include Working Scholars®, an accelerated pathway for working adults to earn a debt-free bachelor's degree, and Keys to the Classroom, which seeks to help aspiring educators prepare for and pass their teacher certification exams.

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- Bayless' BBEC credential assures homeowners, architects, builders, and medical professionals of the expertise to diagnose sick houses and advise efforts to maintain healthy environments -

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C., Nov. 15, 2023 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Rick Bayless, CIEC, HHS, JS, owner and founder of A Healthier Home, LLC, has earned the certification of Building Biologist and Environmental Consultant (BBEC) from the international Building Biology Institute (BBI).

A Healthier Home, LLC, serves the environmental home health needs of Hendersonville, Asheville, and surrounding areas in the southern Appalachians.

To obtain the rigorous certification, Bayless logged more than 200 hours of coursework, seminar training, lab and field work, and passed knowledge-based exams. Proven, continued currency in the industry is required of those certified.

“Remaining current in the field is essential for healthy homes practitioners,” says Bayless. “The BBEC certification assures members of our community that we can help them – and their homes – meet a standard of optimum healthiness.”

The BBEC equips healthy homes practitioners with practical, real world, hands-on experience in identifying, assessing and mitigating or eliminating pollutants, airborne toxins, and electromagnetic emissions, according to the BBI.

Those like Bayless who hold the BBEC certification prove highly qualified to provide expert advice to homeowners, architects, builders, and medical professionals. A Healthier Home’s standard examination is designed to help clients create and maintain an ecologically and environmentally healthy structure.

“Whether it’s a mold issue, a medical diagnosis, or a new addition to the family, healthiness concerns top the list of homeowners and buyers in western North Carolina and surrounding areas,” says Bayless. “My team and I strive to consistently meet and exceed the baseline provided by the national healthy homes guidelines.”

A pioneer in the healthy homes movement, Bayless founded A Healthier Home in 2011. Today, he is a recognized, respected thought leader in the national healthier homes movement. With more than four decades of experience in the field, he remains committed to friendly, accessible and sensible environmental home health solutions.

Bayless (BA, Environmental Science, Rutgers University) is a board-certified indoor environmental consultant (CIEC) by the Indoor Air Quality Associates as administered by the American Council of Accredited Certifications. He is also recognized by the North Carolina Department of Labor as a Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Journeyman Specialist (JS). He is also designated a Healthy Homes Specialist (HHS), by the National Environmental Health Association.

About A Healthier Home, LLC:

A Healthier Home, LLC, is western North Carolina’s leading environmental home health examination provider. Owner and founder Rick Bayless is a national award-winning, NEHA and BBI certified environmental home health and safety consultant. Individuals who would like to learn more about how AHH diagnoses sick houses and supports the optimum health of the people who live and work in the region may visit the website at https://www.ahealthierhomenc.com/.

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Abortion rights advocates in Nebraska who are launching a ballot initiative campaign this week are seeking to enshrine "a fundamental right to abortion until fetal viability" in the state's constitution, according to proposed policy language made public Wednesday.

The language — initially filed with Nebraska's secretary of state earlier this month by a coalition of advocates known as Protect Our Rights — will appear on petitions seeking to put the constitutional amendment before voters in November 2024.

The coalition leading the effort, which includes the ACLU of Nebraska, I Be Black Girl, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Nebraska, the Women's Fund of Omaha and Nebraska Appleseed, among others, plans to formally launch their petition drive Thursday in Omaha.

Advocates will need to collect signatures from 10% of Nebraska's registered voters to get the would-be amendment on the ballot next November — a total that will require about 122,000 authorized signatures, including 5% of registered voters in at least 38 of Nebraska's 93 counties.

The proposed policy language does not set a specific timeline for when abortion would be illegal under the amendment but defines fetal viability as "the point in pregnancy when, in the professional judgment of the patient's treating health care practitioner, there is a significant likelihood of the fetus' sustained survival outside the uterus without the application of extraordinary medical measures."

If it reaches the ballot and is approved by voters, the amendment would also ensure abortions are available "when needed to protect the life or health of the pregnant patient, without interference from the state or its political subdivisions."

"This amendment will ensure that these personal decisions stay with Nebraskans — not politicians," Ashlei Spivey, a member of Protect Our Rights' executive committee and executive director of I Be Black Girl, said in a statement Wednesday.

The proposed policy invokes similar language as the constitutional amendment voters in Ohio supported last week that allows the state to regulate abortion only after fetal viability, which is generally considered to be six months of pregnancy or about 22-24 weeks gestation.

The proposed language prompted immediate backlash from Gov. Jim Pillen and some of his allies in the Legislature, who in April voted 3315 to pass a bill that restricted access to abortion in the state to 12 weeks based on gestational age. State law previously allowed abortions up until 20 weeks post-fertilization.

"Bottom line: it's very vague, it's very open," Pillen told reporters Wednesday, suggesting "fetal viability" could be defined "a lot of different ways."

"I'm gonna fight it with every ounce of energy that I have because what it will lead to, if enacted, it will lead to doctors deciding — women deciding, doctors deciding whether a baby being born at 39 weeks can live or not," he said.

"We are a pro-life state. There's no Nebraskans that are gonna support that petition and we're gonna make sure they understand the truth of the language in it."

Questioned about his assertion that no Nebraskan would support the petition, Pillen then said: "The majority of Nebraskans are not going to support that petition."

State Sen. Joni Albrecht of Thurston, who proposed a six week ban that was narrowly blocked in the Legislature this year before the body ultimately passed the 12-week ban, called the petition language "extreme" and said current law already provides exceptions for the life of the mother and medical emergencies throughout pregnancy.

"An amendment that jeopardizes the health and safety of women and abandons babies who deserve love and protection to painful late-term abortion procedures must be rejected," she said in a press release.

Abortion rights advocates have framed the issue as unpolitical, pointing to the success of the abortion rights ballot initiative last week in Ohio — the seventh state where voters have decided to protect abortion access in the months since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022 — as evidence that the fight over abortion access is not an inherently political issue.

But the looming ballot initiative campaign in Nebraska will nonetheless pit advocates against Pillen and his political allies who championed the passing of the state's 12-week ban in April.

Those restrictions, which took effect immediately, have been challenged in court, so far unsuccessfully. The legal challenge — currently pending in the Nebraska Supreme Court — claims the law violated the state constitution's single-subject rule because the bill that put the restrictions into place also banned gender-affirming surgeries for minors.

Pillen has since pledged that he and his allies in the Legislature are "going to end" abortion at conception in Nebraska, indicating their push to restrict access to the procedure won't stop with bans at 12 or even six weeks.

Advocates, though, hope to halt further restrictions and reverse those already in place.

"Unlike the state officials working to totally ban abortion, we're elevating the voices and lived experiences of Nebraskans who believe that pregnant people should be able to access needed care with compassion and privacy, free from political interference," Spivey said in her statement Wednesday.

She said the amendment is "informed both by medical experts and where most Nebraskans are on this issue."

The group's filings with Secretary of State Bob Evnen's office list three formal sponsors of the proposed amendment: Dr. Andy Robertson, an Elkhorn-based maternal and fetal medicine specialist; Dr. Carolyn Maud Doherty, an OB-GYN in Omaha, and Jasmine Smith, a birth and postpartum pregnancy loss support provider who also lives in Omaha.

The coalition has commissioned a poll to test Nebraskans' view on the issue but hasn't published results of that effort.

Campaign finance reports filed with the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission indicate the Washington, D.C. Based organization the Fairness Project paid a California polling firm nearly $54,000 to conduct the poll on behalf of the Nebraska coalition.

Protect Our Rights' latest campaign finance statement, which the group filed in late October, suggests that it has around $43,000 in cash on hand and has so far been funded primarily by the ACLU of Nebraska, which gave $25,000 to the coalition in September and again in October.