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CincyCare A
healthcare program that the City of Cincinnati is offering
free of charge to Cincinnati businesses. This two-year
pilot program will provide a medical home, primary care,
preventative care, clinical health screenings and a
prescription drug benefit for 2,000 lower-income Cincinnati
workers beginning in early 2009. Care will be offered
through the city's health centers, and the only cost to
employees who qualify is a $10 co-pay per office visit.
This pilot program will
only cover 2,000 workers, so spots are limited and will be
filled on a first-come, first-serve basis beginning December
1, 2008.
COVERED SERVICES:
- CincyCare is not an Insurance
product
- CincyCare provides the following
services:
- Primary care at the Cincinnati
Health Department Health Centers, which is limited to
primary medical care and routine lab services.
- Prescription drug services of a
value of $100 per year and for a specific group of
medications.
- Care Coordination with Cincinnati
and Northern Kentucky-area providers for more medically
complex procedures.
- CincyCare provides no coverage for
hospital visits, specialty services or any other services
not specifically described above.
Self employed individuals are eligible
as long as they meet all of the eligibility requirements.
The website, CincyCare.org. has a very good description of
those requirements. The annual income limit for a self
employed individual is $37050. So anyone over that annual
income does not qualify.
Please click here to visit the
CincyCare.org website to learn more about this program!
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NABA Book Club
Meeting Announcement & Book Review
When: 4:00pm Friday January 9th, 2009
Where: 303 E. Mitchell Avenue, 45217
RSVP:
naba@northavondalebusinesses.com
At the book club meeting on January 9th, we will discuss
Made to Stick: Why some Ideas Survive and Others Die, by
Chip Heath & Dan Heath. Book Description
Mark
Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world
before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation
rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus
public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile,
people with important ideas–business people, teachers,
politicians, journalists, and others–struggle to make their
ideas “stick.”
Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we
improve the chances of worthy ideas? In Made to Stick,
accomplished educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan
Heath tackle head-on these vexing questions. Inside, the
brothers Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and
explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the
“human scale principle,” using the “Velcro Theory of
Memory,” and creating “curiosity gaps.”
In this indispensable guide, we discover that sticky
messages of all kinds–from the infamous “kidney theft ring”
hoax to a coach’s lessons on sportsmanship to a vision for a
new product at Sony–draw their power from the same six
traits.
Made to Stick is a book that will transform the way you
communicate ideas. It’s a fast-paced tour of success stories
(and failures)–the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who drank a
glass of bacteria to prove a point about stomach ulcers; the
charities who make use of “the Mother Teresa Effect”; the
elementary-school teacher whose simulation actually
prevented racial prejudice. Provocative, eye-opening, and
often surprisingly funny, Made to Stick shows us the vital
principles of winning ideas–and tells us how we can apply
these rules to making our own messages stick.
About the Author
Chip Heath is a professor of organizational behavior in the
Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He lives
in Los Gatos, California.
Dan Heath is a Consultant to the Policy Programs of the
Aspen Institute. A former researcher at Harvard Business
School, he is a co-founder of Thinkwell, an innovative
new-media textbook company. He lives in Raleigh, North
Carolina.
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