ROCKVILLE, Md., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ Today Inteleos announced a pilot project with Wuqu' Kawoq | the Maya Health Alliance as the selection of the Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Certification Academy's 2022 MissionPOCUS project. As the fifth MissionPOCUS project since the initiative's inception in 2018, Inteleos' MissionPOCUS will award the Guatemalan organization a grant to establish an innovative education program aimed to decrease maternal mortality and improve access to care for indigenous Mayan populations. In collaboration with the University of Cincinnati Department of Family and Community (DFCM) Residency Division, the pilot program will employ a longitudinal training model focused on basic obstetric ultrasound initially, with a scalability plan to further implement additional non-obstetric ultrasound applications specific to their unique, rural primary care setting. In Guatemala, indigenous Mayan populations experience a 2-3 times greater rate of materna
/PRNewswire/ Today Inteleos announced a pilot project with Wuqu Kawoq | the Maya Health Alliance as the selection of the Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS).
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A Lombard man was sentenced to 6 months in jail Friday for causing a 2019 crash that left an 80-year-old woman dead in DuPage County.
Todd Heidenthal, 50, pleaded guilty to one count of reckless homicide on Sept. 17, 2021, the DuPage County state’s attorney’s office said in a statement.
On Nov. 8, 2019, Heidenthal was eastbound about 7 a.m. on 35th Street between Midwest Road and Route 83 when he crossed over a double yellow line into oncoming traffic to pass a vehicle in front of him, prosecutors said.
While attempting to pass, Heidenthal crashed head-on into a car driven by Florence Hsiao, killing her, prosecutors said.
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A Lombard man was sentenced Friday to six months in jail for killing a woman in a crash when he passed in a no-passing zone.
DuPage County Judge Daniel Guerin also sentenced Todd Heidenthal, 50, to 30 months of probation and to undergo anger-management treatment, according to court records.
The 2019 crash killed Florence Hsiao, 78, of Westmont. I am deeply distraught, Heidenthal told Guerin during a presentencing hearing Wednesday. I wish that I could change things. I had no intent on harming anybody that day.
Heidenthal said he would understand if Hsiao s daughter couldn t forgive him.