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SourceOne Awarded Contract to Provide Energy Management Services to SouthCoast Electric Power Group

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SourceOne Awarded Contract to Provide Energy Management Services to SouthCoast Electric Power Group

SourceOne to provide options to manage collective electricity spend of $10 million for group that includes the Cities of New Bedford, Fall River and nearly 30 companies

BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– SourceOne, a nationally recognized energy consulting firm and a subsidiary of Veolia Energy North America, has been selected to perform energy advisory services for SouthCoast Electric Power Group (SCEPG), an aggregation comprised of the Cities of New Bedford, Fall River and nearly 30 private companies in the area. The contract was awarded to SourceOne after a competitive public request for proposal for energy consultant services. The SCEPG is comprised of over 800 separate accounts with an aggregate annual electricity load of roughly 150,000,000 kWh, representing an estimated annual budget of approximately $10 million.

“We are pleased to be working closely with SourceOne, and we selected them due to their proven energy expertise throughout the region and across the nation,” said Roy M. Nascimento, IOM, President and CEO of the New Bedford Area Chamber of Commerce. “During these tough economic times, it is extremely beneficial to have experts to provide our group with the energy advisory services needed to help manage member costs over the next few years. We believe that our membership will benefit substantially from this partnership, providing greater access to competitive pricing along with valuable market guidance.”

The scope of energy services provided by SourceOne will include development of pricing alternatives, contract negotiation with electricity suppliers, ongoing management of the supply relationship, and electricity market insight and forecasting. These services allow SCEPG members to have the information needed to make important electricity pricing decisions and to further reduce electricity costs.

“SourceOne is delighted to have been selected by SCEPG as its advisor and resource to help control the cost of electric supply for their members,” said Chris Barros, P.E., Vice President and General Manager of Energy Management at SourceOne. “Municipalities as well as commercial and industrial customers are under increasing pressure to manage costs, and potential electricity cost reductions will have a positive impact to the bottom line. SourceOne is well suited to assist SCEPG by providing energy consulting services that will improve SCEPG member’s financial health and environmental impact.”

The SouthCoast Electric Power Group (SCEPG) has been in existence since 2002 and has an excellent track record of providing area members with benefits from the aggregation of their electricity spend. Using the …read more
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Aetna Foundation Awards $325,000 in Grants to Train Doctors for 21st-Century Health Care

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Aetna Foundation Awards $325,000 in Grants to Train Doctors for 21 st -Century Health Care


— Funding for Institute of Medicine to help improve residency programs; launch “hotspotting” fellowships from Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers —

HARTFORD, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– As part of its work to improve health care in the United States, the Aetna Foundation has awarded two grants totaling $325,000 to help doctors adapt to a rapidly changing health care system and growing health care needs.

The funding focuses on training young doctors for the post-reform health care landscape, which aims to improve the patient experience and population health and to lower health care costs.

“Doctors need to be part of the solution to meet the health care needs of different populations and rising rates of complex, chronic diseases,” said Gillian Barclay, D.D.S., Dr.PH., vice president of the Aetna Foundation‘s national grant making. “That means we need bold new approaches to doctors’ training to create a modern, high-performing health care system that can provide high-quality care for everyone in the U.S.”

The Aetna Foundation has contributed $150,000 to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM) to support its study of today’s medical residency programs, or the graduate medical education system (GME).

The IOM study is looking at the governance and financing of GME in the U.S. The final report will recommend changes to medical residency programs to better prepare young doctors for 21st-century health care systems, which all increasingly focus on patient-centered primary care, team medicine and health information technology. The study also is looking at ways to encourage more doctors to specialize in primary care to meet the demands of an aging and ever more diverse U.S. population.

To conduct the study, IOM has appointed a 21-member committee with expertise in health care systems, health economics, health professions education, and financing and accreditation. The committee’s final report is expected in early 2014.

The Aetna Foundation also has awarded $175,000 to the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers in New Jersey to establish a new fellowship program to train primary care doctors in “hotspotting,” a technique borrowed from advancements in city policing.

In medicine, hotspotting analyzes hospital readmissions, emergency room visits and other data to identify patients who use health care resources at abnormally high rates. The …read more
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IOM Finds Childhood Vaccine Schedule Safe – As It Always Has Been

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By Steven Salzberg, Contributor Hey parents: if you’ve been taken in by anti-vaccine discussions on the internet, you might want to look at the newest report from the Institute of Medicine.  After a lengthy and thorough review of the evidence, the IOM issued a report last week that found that the current childhood immunization schedule in the United States is safe.
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