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Dallas, TX, Dec. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Associa, the industry’s largest community management company, has completed an attestation under the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ (AICPA) Service Organization Controls related to internal controls for financial reporting and operating effectiveness for user organizations, SOC 1 (SSAE 18) Type 2 service auditor’s report, after undergoing the engagement performed with the independent auditing firm NDNB Assurance LLP. 

The SOC 1 Type 2 report includes an examination that follows the AICPA’s Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements guidelines that evaluates the description of the system(s) Associa operates on behalf of its user organizations (customers) and the operating effectiveness over a minimum six-month period.  These systems are relevant to the internal control processes related to financial reporting to the user organizations (customers). A SOC 1 Type 2 report is known as a report on management’s description of a service organization’s system and the suitability of the design and operating effectiveness of controls, which includes the following: 

• Provides evidence about how those controls have been operating over a period of time.
• Delivers an opinion regarding the operating effectiveness of those controls over the audit period.
• Explains how the controls have been operating during the audit period.

“Completing the SOC 1 Type 2 attestation is the next step in Associa’s unwavering commitment to the financial strength and stability of our clients. This new compliance report will give Associa customers elevated confidence that their financial information is stored in a controlled environment that ensures privacy, accuracy, and security,” stated Shannon Streenz, Associa senior vice president of client service operations. “As a Service Organization Control reporting organization, we are proud to maintain the highest levels of design and operating effectiveness of internal controls, top financial standards, and broadest array of financial and accounting services in the industry.”  

Through this examination, conducted with the SSAE 18 regulatory guidance and leading industry best practices, the SOC 1 Type 2 report will support a service organization’s ability to address its own financial statement audit for services and activities outsourced to Associa with greater confidence. 

About Associa

With more than 200 branch offices across North America, Associa delivers unsurpassed management and lifestyle services to nearly five million residents worldwide. Our 10,000+ team members lead the industry with unrivaled education, expertise and trailblazing innovation. For more than 40 years, Associa has provided solutions designed to help communities achieve their vision. To learn more, visit www.associaonline.com.

About AICPA

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants is the world’s largest member association representing the accounting profession and has a history of serving the public interest since 1887. Today, AICPA has 431,000+ members in 137 countries and territories, representing many areas of practice, including business and industry, public practice, government, education and consulting. To learn more, visit https://www.aicpa.org/.

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Ashley Cantwell
Associa 
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Los Angeles, Dec. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —

Chief Clinical Officer Amy Ley-Sanchez has been tapped as the new Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Hillsides, CEO Stacey Roth announced. Ley-Sanchez, LCSW, assumes the role from Roth, who was selected as Hillsides’ new President and CEO to replace Joe Costa, who will retire in June 2021 after 11 years of service. Roth assumed the role of CEO on July 1 and takes on the President role in January, at which point Costa will become President and CEO Emeritus until his retirement in late June 2021.

“Hillsides is very fortunate to have Amy assume this key leadership role at the organization as she has demonstrated a tremendous understanding of our clients’ needs and organization’s needs during her 20-plus years of service here,” Roth said. “She has implemented significant improvements in service delivery and operations during her tenure and we’re eager to have her help guide the organization through a very uncertain economic climate due to the pandemic.” 

Ley-Sanchez joined Hillsides as a case manager in 1999 and has since been promoted to positions that include Program Manager and Director for the Echo Park Program, Division Director for the Family Resource Center, and Chief Clinical Officer, a position she held since 2017 until this latest appointment. She has also raised over $14 million in revenue by applying to public grants that have led to significant program enhancements and expansions.

In her new role, she oversees all Hillsides programs, as well as client engagement, professional development, innovation and growth strategies and research and development of new programming. Her immediate goals are to help diversify service lines through a new commercial insurance program, develop and launch Diversity, Equity and Inclusion guidelines throughout the agency, and oversee program expansion targeting underserved communities in new regions.

“It’s quite an honor to serve Hillsides in this new capacity at this current time of such great need and opportunity,” Ley-Sanchez said. “We have an incredibly dedicated staff who is motivated to meet the challenges that the pandemic is already presenting in terms of service delivery and budget shortages. There’s no doubt that the individuals and communities we serve are the most vulnerable in an economic crisis and we are doing our best to streamline our operations to ensure maximum impact.”

Among her many achievements at Hillsides, Ley-Sanchez has helped with capacity-building partnerships with community organizations that paved the way to expanded networks of care for our clients. She also led the first Peer and Parent Partner program in 2006, and helped cultivate intermediate leadership roles for emerging leaders. Ley-Sanchez assumed her new position earlier this year.

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About Hillsides: Hillsides, with its affiliate Bienvenidos, is dedicated to healing children and young adults, strengthening families, and transforming communities through quality comprehensive services and advocacy. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the agency serves nearly 17,000 children and families in Southern California throughout more than 40 sites, including school-based mental health offices in Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Baldwin Park. Foster care and adoptions services are offered in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties. To learn more about Hillsides, please visit www.Hillsides.org. Visit Hillsides on Facebook @hillsideschildren, on Twitter @Hillsides, or on Instagram @HillsidesPasadena.

Ray Delgado
Hillsides
323-302-7311
[email protected]

Aurora, Colo., Dec. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — As UCHealth begins administering the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to health care workers today at University of Colorado Hospital on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, some recipients will be wearing the BioIntelliSense BioButton medical device as a foundational step in developing a scalable post-vaccine monitoring program that could be deployed more broadly in high-risk patient populations.

The BioButton medical grade device and data services are offered by BioIntelliSense, a continuous health monitoring and clinical intelligence company based in Golden, Colo. The coin-sized wearable device provides an effortless user experience and delivers continuous vital sign monitoring of temperature, respiratory rate and heart rate at rest.

“The participation of our frontline health care workers in this vaccine monitoring program serves as an important operational milestone in scaling the program for the larger population, particularly with vulnerable patient populations and seniors in long-term care environments,” said Dr. Richard Zane, UCHealth chief innovation officer and professor and chair of emergency medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. “We work closely with partners like BioIntelliSense to not only navigate the ever-changing landscape of health care but collaboratively develop the innovative tools that are transforming the way patients receive care.”

UCHealth’s staff and providers will wear the BioButton device for two days prior and seven days following a COVID-19 vaccine dose to detect potential adverse vital sign trends. Together with a daily vaccination health survey and data insights, the wearer may be alerted of signs and symptoms to guide appropriate follow-up actions and further medical management.

“The vaccine is a significant clinical achievement in addressing the COVID-19 global pandemic,” said James Mault, MD, CEO of BioIntelliSense. “We are proud to partner with UCHealth in providing our BioIntelliSense medical-grade wearable technology and advanced data services to address high-risk patient populations and to offer peace of mind monitoring for those who may be concerned about receiving the vaccine.”

The strategic collaboration of CU Innovations, UCHealth and its CARE Innovation Center with BioIntelliSense explores the clinical applications of the company’s devices and medical-grade services. The alliance is committed to developing and validating new models of data-driven care that are patient-centered and built for scale.

For more information on the BioButton COVID-19 health screening solution, visit www.biointellisense.com/biobutton.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Video demonstrating the use of the BioButton can be found here.

About UCHealth

UCHealth is an innovative, nonprofit health system that delivers the highest quality medical care with an excellent patient experience. UCHealth includes 25,000 employees, 12 acute-care full-service hospitals and hundreds of physicians across Colorado, southern Wyoming and western Nebraska. With University of Colorado Hospital on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus as its academic anchor and the only adult academic medical center in the region, UCHealth is dedicated to providing unmatched patient care in the Rocky Mountain West. Offering more than 150 clinic locations, UCHealth pushes the boundaries of medicine, providing advanced treatments and clinical trials and improving health through innovation.

About BioIntelliSense

BioIntelliSense is ushering in a new era of continuous health monitoring and clinical intelligence for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM). Its medical-grade Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform seamlessly captures multi-parameter vital signs, physiological biometrics and symptomatic events through an effortless patient experience. The FDA-cleared BioSticker™ and medical-grade BioButton™ devices make remote monitoring and early detection simple. Through the platform’s advanced analytics, clinicians will now have access to high-resolution patient trending and reporting to enable medical grade care at home.

For more information on how BioIntelliSense is redefining remote patient monitoring through medical-grade and cost-effective data services, please contact us at [email protected] or visit our website at BioIntelliSense.com.

About the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is a world-class medical destination at the forefront of transformative science, medicine, education and patient care. The campus encompasses the University of Colorado health professional schools, more than 60 centers and institutes, and two nationally ranked independent hospitals that treat more than two million adult and pediatric patients each year. Innovative, interconnected and highly collaborative, together we deliver life-changing treatments, patient care, professional training, and conduct world-renowned research. For more information, visit www.cuanschutz.edu.

 

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Paula Freund
UCHealth
720-848-5809
[email protected]

Carolyn Walsh
BioIntelliSense, Inc.
925-389-7592
[email protected]

Colorado Springs, Colorado, Dec. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — When Ent Credit Union launched its “Save A Little, Win A Lot” program at the beginning of 2020, the goal was to help reinforce good saving habits among its members. Little did the credit union, and the participants, know the challenges that would lie ahead for the majority of 2020 as the topic of saving took on new importance during a period of record unemployment and pandemic-driven economic adversity.

Each month, 10 qualifying members were randomly selected to receive a $500 cash prize. Each quarter, five qualifying members received a $1,000 cash prize, and, at the conclusion of the program, four grand prizes would be awarded. One qualifying member would receive a $50,000 cash prize while three runner-up prizes of $25,000 would be awarded.

This week, Ent selected and notified the grand prize winners of its “Save A Little, Win A Lot” program:

• $50,000 winner – Dawn Schuerkamp – Goodyear, AZ

• $25,000 winner – Patricia Mascarenas – Pueblo

• $25,000 winner – Chelsea Lawson – Colorado Springs

• $25,000 winner – Jesse Terpstra – Colorado Springs

For grand prize winner Schuerkamp, winning $50,000 near the end of a very tough year had even more significance. “My husband has had cancer since February of this year and hasn’t worked since his diagnosis. He’s been through hell and back with several rounds of chemotherapy but he just got his scans back and, as of this month, he is cancer-free,” Schuerkamp exclaimed on a surprise video call with Ent leadership. “I’m so excited I won – winning this money takes a huge burden off us.” Though she now lives in Arizona, Schuerkamp and her husband have continued to be Ent members for more than 30 years.

Mascarenas indicated that paying bills would be the primary use of her winnings while Lawson was looking forward to using her prize money on a special trip to Europe, taking her recently departed mother’s ashes along with her. Terpstra indicated that paying for home improvements was on the docket for he and his wife, though he then added, “Don’t tell my wife but I’m pretty sure we’re getting a hot tub.”

Overall, 134 members shared in the $200,000 prize money, while 127 Ent team members won Paid Time Off (PTO), or a share of more than $20,000 in cash in a separate “Save A Little, Win A Lot” program that ran concurrently for employees.

How members qualified for Ent’s “Save A Little, Win A Lot” program:

• They earned an entry for every $25 they saved, up to a maximum of five entries per month

• Once they saved $1,000, they earned five bonus entries for that month

• Monthly entries counted toward monthly, quarterly, runner-up and grand prizes

About Ent

Founded in 1957, for the third consecutive year Ent is ranked Colorado’s #1 credit union by Forbes. Ent, a not-for-profit financial, community-chartered credit union is committed to improving members’ financial quality of life with better rates, lower fees and unparalleled products and services. With $7+ billion in assets, Ent serves more than 400,000 members at 43 convenient service centers across the Front Range. Ent is an Equal Housing Opportunity and Equal Opportunity Lender, insured by the NCUA. Visit Ent.com for more.

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Fred Jacobs
Ent Credit Union
(720)520-2894
[email protected]