<strong>Nashville startup semifinalist for innovation award</strong>
A local company that’s created a product to better care for bedsores is in the running for a pitch contest worth $50,000.
From May 1 to 15 voting will take place online for the eight semifinalist startup organizations selected as part of the 2021 bioLOGIC Innovation Awards (BIAs). The semifinalists include a local project by Nashville-based Bussert Medical, doing business as Wave Therapeutics.
The bioLOGIC Foundation’s third annual BIA Pitch Day Finals are a $50k pitch contest open to early-stage startups working in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio to advance human health.
Bussert Medical’s device uses a combination of alternating pressure and sequential compression to relieve bedsores, and it is also much more affordable to patients than other bedsore-relieving devices currently available.
Online voting begins at noon May 1. People interested in voting online must visit <a href="http://biologicglobal.org/community-voting-reminder">biologicglobal.org/community-voting-reminder</a> to register, as only one vote per person is allowed.
<strong>Verbal deescalation workshop happening in May</strong>
The Brown County Health Department has received a grant to host Verbal Judo, a deescalation workshop, on Wednesday, May 26 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Seasons Lodge and Conference Center, 560 State Road 46 East.
Participants will learn how to increase workplace safety by decreasing the chance of workplace violence and learn how to defuse verbal conflict.
The class is free to any and every county employee thanks to a grant from the Smithville Charitable Foundation.
The instructor is Mike "Ziggy" Siegried, a speaker who spent 26 years working as a full-time peace officer prior to becoming the COO of the Verbal Judo Institute. Siegfried is a court recognized use-of-force expert and a published author in Police Magazine, the FBI National Academy Associate Magazine, Police Recruit Magazine and Campus Security Magazine.
Register at <a href="http://browncountyhealthdept.org">browncountyhealthdept.org</a>. Email <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> or call 812-988-2255 for more information.
<strong>Abe Martin Lodge’s renovated east wing now open</strong>
The Indiana Department of Administration and Indiana State Parks have completed the renovation of the 54-room east wing of the Abe Martin Lodge in Brown County State Park.
The $4.5 million project was funded from an appropriation of more than $29 million in deferred maintenance dollars for recreation properties from the Indiana General Assembly.
At the Abe Martin Lodge:
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<li>All rooms were upgraded to include new flooring, sound-absorbing insulation, moisture-resistant drywall, paint, windows and window siding, light switches, and fixtures.</li>
<li>New HVAC components were installed and a new dedicated outdoor air system is now in place to bring fresh air into the rooms.</li>
<li>Carpet was replaced with luxury vinyl plank flooring.</li>
<li>All bathrooms were gutted and new tubs, toilets, vanities, exhaust fans, mirrors, fixtures and wall/floor tile were installed. Water lines, supply lines and mixing valves were also replaced.</li>
<li>All rooms have new furnishings and large smart-screen televisions.</li>
<li>Hallway lighting, emergency lighting, wallpaper and carpet were replaced, walls were repainted and new lighting and emergency lighting were installed in the stairwells.</li>
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The nearly 16,000-acre state park was established in 1929. The original lodge opened in 1932 and was named after Abe Martin, the fictional backwoods Brown County cartoon character created by humorist Kin Hubbard in the early 1900s. Since the lodge’s initial construction, lodge rooms, family cabins and cabin suites have been added to increase capacity. The east wing, formerly called the annex, opened in 1987. An indoor aquatic center, which provides a year-round attraction for families, opened in 2009.
