Aug22Tue

Member News from Aramark

Aramark’s 20 by 20 initiative exceeding target goals

The company’s commitment to reducing calories, saturated fat and sodium by 20 percent while increasing fruits, vegetables and whole grain by 20 percent by 2020 saw more than expected gains in its first year.

Aramark’s Healthy for Life 20 By 20 initiative, launched in partnership with the American Heart Association (AHA) several years ago, exceeded its target goals by about a hundred percent in its first year, generating confidence that the program can meet its commitment to achieve a 20 percent reduction in calories, saturated fat and sodium, as well as a 20 percent increase in fruits, vegetables and whole grains across its menus by 2020.

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Aug20Sun

Board Member highlighted in Irish Edition

IABCN Board Member & Wawa’s Cultural Ambassador, Harry McHugh, Addresses the Donegal Society

Above: Harry McHugh with Frank McDonnell, President of the Donegal Society, in the Library of the Commodore John Barry Arts and Cultural Center

By Marita Krivda Poxon, Irish Edition

Harry McHugh, 73, Galway-born retired executive at Wawa Inc., spoke to members of the Donegal Association of Philadelphia who crowded the dining room of the Irish Center on Sunday, April 23. He was introduced by the association’s president, Frank McDonnell, who knew the speaker’s life story would be riveting after having met McHugh at an Irish Studies event given at Villanova University.

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Aug17Thu

Member News from Bayada Home Health Care

Bayada Home Health transfer to nonprofit will start next spring

Giving away a health-care business with operations in 22 states and five foreign countries is not easy.

 That’s what J. Mark Baiada has found since June 2016, when he announced his intention to turn Bayada Home Health Care into a nonprofit to protect it from a sale and ensure that its mission endures.

The process will start in April and is expected to take 18 months to two years because it is a complicated process, Baiada said Wednesday.

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Aug16Wed

The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia

Irish (The) and Ireland
By William E. Watson

Contacts between the Philadelphia region and Ireland began in the late seventeenth century, shortly after the creation of Penn’s colony. Long a part of the urban fabric of Philadelphia, Irish Catholics endured nativist assaults of the Bible Riots of 1844 and did not see one of their own become mayor until  James H. J. Tate, who served from 1962 to 1972. By the twenty-first century, the Irish continued to exert significant cultural and political influence in the region, especially in South and Northeast Philadelphia and in surrounding suburban counties.

See reference below to the Irish Chamber.

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Aug16Wed

Amicus Therapeutics Announcement

 

First Amicus Medicine and First Oral Precision Medicine for Fabry Disease in Australia

Broad Label for Fabry Patients with an Amenable Genetic Mutation

CRANBURY, N.J., Aug. 15, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Amicus Therapeutics (Nasdaq:FOLD) announced that the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has approved the oral precision medicine Galafold for long-term treatment of adults and adolescents aged 16 years and older with a confirmed diagnosis of Fabry disease (alpha-galactosidase A deficiency) and who have an amenable mutation. Amicus estimates that approximately 35%-50% of Fabry patients in Australia have an amenable mutation. Following the TGA approval, Amicus is continuing to work with the Australian reimbursement authorities to make Galafold available to Australian patients in a timely manner.

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