Brightworks Interactive Marketing is a full-service digital communications agency based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Neil Follett, past president of the Ontario Pharmaceutical Marketing Association, is the company's founder and current Managing Director.
In 2010 the company was recognized for its services, winning Eyeforpharma's 'Best Digital Campaign' and taking home two awards in the 'Healthcare' category at the Web Marketing Association International Advertising Competition for their work on Bayer Healthcare's Contour USB meter. The agency also won a 2010 Canadian Marketing Association award in the 'Digital Healthcare' category for their work on Chemoready program.
Brightworks is a member of the Advertising Standards Council, the Canadian Marketing Association, the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada, the Ontario Pharmaceutical Marketing Association and the Toronto Board of Trade.
Brightworks contributes to the following charitable organizations: the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Daily Bread Food Bank, Make a Wish Foundation, Prostate Cancer Foundation, Habitat for Humanity, the Princess Margaret Foundation and the Hospice of Peel.
In 2010 the company was recognized for its services, winning Eyeforpharma's 'Best Digital Campaign' and taking home two awards in the 'Healthcare' category at the Web Marketing Association International Advertising Competition for their work on Bayer Healthcare's Contour USB meter. The agency also won a 2010 Canadian Marketing Association award in the 'Digital Healthcare' category for their work on Chemoready program.
Brightworks is a member of the Advertising Standards Council, the Canadian Marketing Association, the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada, the Ontario Pharmaceutical Marketing Association and the Toronto Board of Trade.
Brightworks contributes to the following charitable organizations: the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Daily Bread Food Bank, Make a Wish Foundation, Prostate Cancer Foundation, Habitat for Humanity, the Princess Margaret Foundation and the Hospice of Peel.
MHM Services, Inc. is a privately-held healthcare solutions and staffing provider headquartered in Vienna, VA. The company's principal customers are state and local governments. MHM directly employs over 3,600 clinical, management, and support staff nationwide.
Services provided
*Correctional Mental Health Services - Mental health management and staffing solutions for state-wide correctional systems. This includes positions such as psychiatrists, mental health professionals, social workers, and a variety of other disciplines to support the needs of the incarcerated patient.
*Correctional Medical Services - Physical health management and staffing solutions for state-wide correctional systems. This includes positions such as physicians, psychiatric and mental health nursing, and a variety of other allied healthcare professionals to support the needs of the incarcerated patient.
*State Hospital Management Services - MHM has designed a model for state hospitals to assist states with the staffing and day-to-day management of their inpatient psychiatric facilities.
*Community-based Mental Health Services - MHM's subsidiary, Forensic Health Services, Inc. (FHS), provides expertise in pre-trial hearings to sentencing. FHS works with clients to identify risk levels of individuals and delivers services that reduce those risks. In addition, MHM holds contracts providing mental health services to community based clients to support daily living.
*Forensic Programs - MHM and FHS have programs designed and implemented by senior-level mental health clinicians.
*MHM Solutions - Outsourced healthcare staffing and solutions to state and local government agencies.
Business environment
In its largest business unit, correctional healthcare, MHM serves approximately 260,000 inmates in 16 states and over 300 facilities throughout the United States. MHM is one of a few national healthcare companies who provide a full spectrum of health services to the corrections market. Most of its competitors are local groups of psychiatrists or psychologists who enter into contracts with individual prisons. MHM often competes with local state organizations or university health systems.
History
MHM was originally founded as Mental Health Management in 1981. According to a Wall Street Transcript interview with MHM CEO Michael S. Pinkert, the company started out developing mental health units in general hospital settings and quickly grew to become the country’s largest provider of inpatient psychiatric care in general hospitals. It then grew by adding freestanding psychiatric hospitals. In 1986, the company was sold to Mediq.
In 1993, the company was spun off by Mediq and became a publicly traded company. MHM sold off all of its inpatient operations, including its freestanding hospitals, in order to focus solely on providing mental health services in correctional institutions. Meanwhile, Mediq continued to hold an $11.8 million note against MHM. In 1997, MHM sought to have the note cancelled, claiming Mediq breached its obligations to MHM by forcing MHM officials to sign a note that "unjustly enriches Mediq at MHM's expense". The suit also asked the court to require Mediq to pay back $4.5 million MHM had already paid. Pinkert called the note "a tremendous cash drain that we could have put to more productive uses."
On July 15, 1998, the Company and Mediq settled an $11.8 judgement against the Company for repayment of this debt in return for a cash payment of $3 million by the Company. A 1998 Georgia Department of Corrections audit noted the resolution of the matter with this statement:
on July 16, 1998, just prior to the release of this report, MHM Services Inc. issued a press release reporting that it had settled a nearly $12 million debt with a creditor for a lump sum of $3 million. MHM indicated that as a result of this action, it expected its shareholder equity to increase from a negative position of nearly $8 million to a positive position of approximately $1.7 million.
This move helped assuage the nerves of MHM's customers, and the company subsequently signed several new contracts. By 2000, its profits were improving markedly, according to MHM press releases. The company went private in 2001.
In 2011 MHM entered into a joint venture, Centurion LLC, with Centene Corporation (CNC) in order to successfully compete for comprehensive healthcare bids from state governments.
Centurion started its first comprehensive healthcare contract in the state of Massachusetts in July 2013. Over the next few years, Centurion won contracts in Minnesota, Tennessee, Vermont and Mississippi. As of August 2015, Centurion holds five healthcare contracts with correctional systems and employs over 2,000 employees through MHM Health Professionals.
In addition to growing business through its partnership with Centene, MHM also is rapidly growing its MHM Solutions business which provides healthcare staffing to state and local government agencies. MHM retains a national recruiting team of over 20 in-house recruiters who specialize in recruiting hard-to-fill healthcare positions.
The company is led by founding CEO, Michael Pinkert, and President and COO, Steve Wheeler.
Locations
MHM's headquarters is located in Northern Virginia on Spring Hill Road, in Vienna, VA since 2004. Each contract is managed through a network of state and regional offices located throughout the United States. Each contract is overseen by a Program Manager or Vice President of Operations. Regional offices are located in:
*Montgomery, AL
*Milford, CT
*Atlanta, GA
*Westborough, MA
*Baltimore, MD
*Lansing, MI
*Jackson, MS
*Roseville, MN
*Concord, NH
*Grants, NM
*Mechanicsburg, PA
*Philadelphia, PA
*Nashville, TN
*Waterbury, VT
Services provided
*Correctional Mental Health Services - Mental health management and staffing solutions for state-wide correctional systems. This includes positions such as psychiatrists, mental health professionals, social workers, and a variety of other disciplines to support the needs of the incarcerated patient.
*Correctional Medical Services - Physical health management and staffing solutions for state-wide correctional systems. This includes positions such as physicians, psychiatric and mental health nursing, and a variety of other allied healthcare professionals to support the needs of the incarcerated patient.
*State Hospital Management Services - MHM has designed a model for state hospitals to assist states with the staffing and day-to-day management of their inpatient psychiatric facilities.
*Community-based Mental Health Services - MHM's subsidiary, Forensic Health Services, Inc. (FHS), provides expertise in pre-trial hearings to sentencing. FHS works with clients to identify risk levels of individuals and delivers services that reduce those risks. In addition, MHM holds contracts providing mental health services to community based clients to support daily living.
*Forensic Programs - MHM and FHS have programs designed and implemented by senior-level mental health clinicians.
*MHM Solutions - Outsourced healthcare staffing and solutions to state and local government agencies.
Business environment
In its largest business unit, correctional healthcare, MHM serves approximately 260,000 inmates in 16 states and over 300 facilities throughout the United States. MHM is one of a few national healthcare companies who provide a full spectrum of health services to the corrections market. Most of its competitors are local groups of psychiatrists or psychologists who enter into contracts with individual prisons. MHM often competes with local state organizations or university health systems.
History
MHM was originally founded as Mental Health Management in 1981. According to a Wall Street Transcript interview with MHM CEO Michael S. Pinkert, the company started out developing mental health units in general hospital settings and quickly grew to become the country’s largest provider of inpatient psychiatric care in general hospitals. It then grew by adding freestanding psychiatric hospitals. In 1986, the company was sold to Mediq.
In 1993, the company was spun off by Mediq and became a publicly traded company. MHM sold off all of its inpatient operations, including its freestanding hospitals, in order to focus solely on providing mental health services in correctional institutions. Meanwhile, Mediq continued to hold an $11.8 million note against MHM. In 1997, MHM sought to have the note cancelled, claiming Mediq breached its obligations to MHM by forcing MHM officials to sign a note that "unjustly enriches Mediq at MHM's expense". The suit also asked the court to require Mediq to pay back $4.5 million MHM had already paid. Pinkert called the note "a tremendous cash drain that we could have put to more productive uses."
On July 15, 1998, the Company and Mediq settled an $11.8 judgement against the Company for repayment of this debt in return for a cash payment of $3 million by the Company. A 1998 Georgia Department of Corrections audit noted the resolution of the matter with this statement:
on July 16, 1998, just prior to the release of this report, MHM Services Inc. issued a press release reporting that it had settled a nearly $12 million debt with a creditor for a lump sum of $3 million. MHM indicated that as a result of this action, it expected its shareholder equity to increase from a negative position of nearly $8 million to a positive position of approximately $1.7 million.
This move helped assuage the nerves of MHM's customers, and the company subsequently signed several new contracts. By 2000, its profits were improving markedly, according to MHM press releases. The company went private in 2001.
In 2011 MHM entered into a joint venture, Centurion LLC, with Centene Corporation (CNC) in order to successfully compete for comprehensive healthcare bids from state governments.
Centurion started its first comprehensive healthcare contract in the state of Massachusetts in July 2013. Over the next few years, Centurion won contracts in Minnesota, Tennessee, Vermont and Mississippi. As of August 2015, Centurion holds five healthcare contracts with correctional systems and employs over 2,000 employees through MHM Health Professionals.
In addition to growing business through its partnership with Centene, MHM also is rapidly growing its MHM Solutions business which provides healthcare staffing to state and local government agencies. MHM retains a national recruiting team of over 20 in-house recruiters who specialize in recruiting hard-to-fill healthcare positions.
The company is led by founding CEO, Michael Pinkert, and President and COO, Steve Wheeler.
Locations
MHM's headquarters is located in Northern Virginia on Spring Hill Road, in Vienna, VA since 2004. Each contract is managed through a network of state and regional offices located throughout the United States. Each contract is overseen by a Program Manager or Vice President of Operations. Regional offices are located in:
*Montgomery, AL
*Milford, CT
*Atlanta, GA
*Westborough, MA
*Baltimore, MD
*Lansing, MI
*Jackson, MS
*Roseville, MN
*Concord, NH
*Grants, NM
*Mechanicsburg, PA
*Philadelphia, PA
*Nashville, TN
*Waterbury, VT
Heartlight Ministries is a non-profit Christian-based therapeutic boarding school for troubled teens located about two hours east of Dallas in the Piney Woods region of East Texas.
Background
Heartlight is a co-ed, year-round program for 50-55 residents, supervised by over 40 professional staff, teachers and licensed counselors on a campus near Longview, Texas.
Affiliations
Heartlight is licensed with the State of Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. It is a member of the National Religious Broadcasters, Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, and Evangelical Christian Publishers Association.
Other programs of Heartlight
Heartlight also offers various helps and resources for parents, including the national radio program, "Parenting Today's Teens", and "Turbulence Ahead" seminars, books and tapes by Mark Gregston.
Background
Heartlight is a co-ed, year-round program for 50-55 residents, supervised by over 40 professional staff, teachers and licensed counselors on a campus near Longview, Texas.
Affiliations
Heartlight is licensed with the State of Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. It is a member of the National Religious Broadcasters, Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, and Evangelical Christian Publishers Association.
Other programs of Heartlight
Heartlight also offers various helps and resources for parents, including the national radio program, "Parenting Today's Teens", and "Turbulence Ahead" seminars, books and tapes by Mark Gregston.
Andrew Charles Craissati (born 15 July 1963) was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group across the Asia Pacific region, 2000-2004. During this time, he served as a director of numerous Virgin companies, such as Virgin Radio Asia, Virgin Mobile Asia, Virgin Mobile Australia. Through his regional oversight, he also had involvement in Virgin Cinemas Japan, Virgin Money, Virgin Megastores, Virgin Blue, Virgin Active, Virgin Cosmetics, Virgin Drinks and other regional initiatives. He developed and managed a China-focused telecom investment joint venture with Japan's NTT DoCoMo. In addition, he successfully raised more than $500m of external financing and led over $1.5bn of transactions for the Group.
Andrew currently advises and invests in the media, leisure and technology sectors. He is currently focused on building an investment platform for his pursuits within the protection of and value maximization of all forms of intellectual property.
From 2004-2011, he has been Chief Executive of Transpac Media Ltd, a boutique investment banking firm, specializing in the global media and leisure industries. Clients have been diversely located in India, China, the USA and the UK and covering industry sectors such as 3D technologies, anti-piracy systems, recorded music, music publishing, broadcasting, software, games, filmed entertainment, advertising and a range of "new media" and internet initiatives. In 2007, he published the first ever comprehensive guide to and profile of all 110 media companies then listed on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market.
Prior to Virgin, 1997-2000, Andrew was Adviser to the Asia Pacific Chairman of Joseph E Seagram, then owner of Universal Studios, involved in matters of both Universal Studios and Polygram. Andrew was also Group Managing Director of the Magna Group, 1991-1997.
Andrew has had experiences in media throughout North America and Asia, having advised such clients as Universal Studios, Media Asia Entertainment Group, filmmaker Chen Kaige, Beijing Film Studios, National Geographic Society, Capital Radio Group Plc (renamed to GCap Media PLC), Carlton Communications PLC, DBS Bank, Pritish Nandy Communications and many others. Most recent, Andrew has been acting as a Special Advisor to prominent adventurer and explorer, David de Rothschild (developing his family office).
Andrew currently serves on the International Advisory Board of both the Singapore Government's Media Development Authority and the UK's Open University Business School. Andrew is Chairman of the Singapore MDA Mentorship Programme, supervising a number of mentors. He is a member of the Turnaround Management Association. Andrew has been a frequent speaker at conferences around the world and has regularly appeared on Reuters, BBC-TV, CNN and CNBC.
Andrew lived in Los Angeles 1986-1995; and in Singapore 1995-2000. He now lives in Palm Beach County, Florida.
Andrew currently advises and invests in the media, leisure and technology sectors. He is currently focused on building an investment platform for his pursuits within the protection of and value maximization of all forms of intellectual property.
From 2004-2011, he has been Chief Executive of Transpac Media Ltd, a boutique investment banking firm, specializing in the global media and leisure industries. Clients have been diversely located in India, China, the USA and the UK and covering industry sectors such as 3D technologies, anti-piracy systems, recorded music, music publishing, broadcasting, software, games, filmed entertainment, advertising and a range of "new media" and internet initiatives. In 2007, he published the first ever comprehensive guide to and profile of all 110 media companies then listed on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market.
Prior to Virgin, 1997-2000, Andrew was Adviser to the Asia Pacific Chairman of Joseph E Seagram, then owner of Universal Studios, involved in matters of both Universal Studios and Polygram. Andrew was also Group Managing Director of the Magna Group, 1991-1997.
Andrew has had experiences in media throughout North America and Asia, having advised such clients as Universal Studios, Media Asia Entertainment Group, filmmaker Chen Kaige, Beijing Film Studios, National Geographic Society, Capital Radio Group Plc (renamed to GCap Media PLC), Carlton Communications PLC, DBS Bank, Pritish Nandy Communications and many others. Most recent, Andrew has been acting as a Special Advisor to prominent adventurer and explorer, David de Rothschild (developing his family office).
Andrew currently serves on the International Advisory Board of both the Singapore Government's Media Development Authority and the UK's Open University Business School. Andrew is Chairman of the Singapore MDA Mentorship Programme, supervising a number of mentors. He is a member of the Turnaround Management Association. Andrew has been a frequent speaker at conferences around the world and has regularly appeared on Reuters, BBC-TV, CNN and CNBC.
Andrew lived in Los Angeles 1986-1995; and in Singapore 1995-2000. He now lives in Palm Beach County, Florida.