Ambius

A FULL-CIRCLE SOLUTION FOR A HYGIENIC WORKSPACE

In business, it pays to keep things clean, safe, and hygienic. Ambius’s comprehensive, 360-degree solution is expertly designed to stop the spread of germs through surface, air, and hand across your facility. For over 50 years, they’ve proudly helped organizations create commercial spaces that promote well-being and health. Now, as businesses face their biggest health challenge in 100 years, Ambius has assembled a global coalition of expertise from their family of companies, including a century-old hygiene leader and a 30-year pioneer in the operational and customer experience assessment industry. Together, they’ve developed Hygiene360, a layered approach focused on healthy building strategies to minimize risk and improve long-term health and well-being.

What is Hygiene360?

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, people are hyperaware of conditions that impact health in public environments. Businesses are now faced with an onslaught of new decisions to make, including how to comply with ever-changing guidelines and legislation. Consumers are now seeking out businesses that implement responsible practices and go the extra mile to protect their customers and employees. No single solution can tackle all germs, which is why Ambius developed a full-service, 360-degree approach to disrupt germs at any point along their journey. Surface, air, and hand hygiene services work in unison to protect health and enhance wellness in your workplace. The protocol assessment then verifies that your efforts are supporting the health and well-being initiatives of your organization.

Your Custom Hygiene360 Solution

Your business is unique. Shouldn’t your hygiene solution be, too? Ambius partners with you to understand your needs and determine how surface, air, and hand hygiene services would best work together in your environment. They will evaluate your operations for risks and highlight key areas for enhanced hygiene action in a customized plan, just for your business. It’s also important to recognize how germs spread. Studies show that people touch their faces an average of 23 times per hour. Doing so after grabbing onto a communal door handle could easily transfer bacteria to a source of entry, such as your eyes or mouth, without you even realizing it. Surface to person is not the only way that germs can spread, through. Air to person and person to person are the two other primary modes of germ transmission. Ambius’s full-service experience is reliable, responsive, and helps you meet your compliance initiatives. Most importantly, they help you create memorable, healthy experiences that demonstrate your brand’s commitment and care. Protect your business by disrupting the journey of the germ and encouraging positive hygiene behaviors.

1. Surface Hygiene 2. Air Hygiene 3. Hand Hygiene 4. Hygiene Assessment

Ambius is the global leader in creating enhanced commercial spaces. They are changing the way we think about our commercial spaces and the indoor environment with which we want to surround ourselves. Most importantly, Ambius is getting you to think about what’s right for your company. Through bespoke interior and exterior landscaping, and scenting solutions, Ambius provides a superior experience for your customers, visitors, and staff to create long lasting and profi table relationships.

WHOLE BODY & MIND HEALTH

From the time we are children, we become accustomed to visiting our pediatrician or family doctor for an annual physical and to treat our injuries or illnesses. Those visits remain critical elements to lifelong health, but there’s a lot more to overall health than just physical well-being. Holistic medicine and related body-and-mind care practices date back thousands of years and are readily applied worldwide today to augment health by treating the whole person—mind and body—to maintain optimal physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health. The upheaval in everyone’s lives since the arrival of COVID has precipitated unprecedented surges in physical and mental health issues for people of all ages. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. adults, in general, reported considerably elevated adverse mental-health conditions associated with the pandemic and quarantine times. Younger adults, racial/ethnic minorities, “essential” workers, and unpaid adult caregivers reported having experienced disproportionately worse mental-health outcomes, increased substance abuse, and elevated suicidal ideation. The situation is serious and calls for increased intervention and prevention efforts.

Personalized, Compassionate Counseling

Research shows, time and again, the extensive benefi ts that mental healthfulness has on overall health—and many of those benefi ts can be realized through the process of mental-health counseling. It has

been shown to improve communication and interpersonal skills, produce greater self-acceptance and self-esteem, help people change selfdefeating behaviors, improve expression of emotions, provide relief from depression, anxiety, and other mental-health conditions, and more. Clearwater Counseling is a private practice with locations in Omaha and Grand Island, and they treat mental-health diagnoses through personalized and compassionate counseling practices that promote growth, development, and well-being to enhance people’s quality of life, especially amid all the changes that have come about in our lives with the pandemic. “Many people experience mental-health struggles at some point in their life,” said Clearwater Co-owner and CEO Kayla Leddy, who is a licensed independent mental health practitioner and a licensed independent professional counselor. “Mental health battles may vary from anxieties, behavioral, life transitions, depression, and stress, all of which can affect our mood, thoughts, and behaviors. We know change can be scary, but we are here to help guide you through those changes in life. While positive change Kayla Leddy is sometimes hard to identify, we strive to Clearwater Counseling

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help clients identify the good things that are happening in their lives. At Clearwater Counseling, we offers in-person and Telehealth services to help people address virtually every condition that affects their mental health—everything from depression to relationship matters, addiction, parenting issues, abuse, coping skills, professional development, marital problems, family conflicts, self-harm, life-threatening illness, and more.”

Functional Medicine Reveal & Heal Health and Wellness

Coaching is a new business in Omaha that uses a functional medicine model. Owner Emily Gilli said functional medicine considers the whole person—body, mind, and spirit— while getting to the root causes and underlying factors affecting health and well-being. It is a holistic approach that empowers people to identify values and strengths, set goals, and access internal motivations that lead to lasting lifestyle changes. The pandemic has increased Emily Gilli the need for holistic-health strategies.

Reveal & Heal Health “COVID has created an increased sense and Wellness Coaching of loneliness and fear,” Emily said. “It has impacted our sense of community, moving some people from very socially interactive jobs to working at home and keeping us from visiting our loved ones in senior-care facilities. Both loneliness and fear increase levels of cortisol, the stress hormone, in our systems, leading to weight gain, sleep disturbances, increased blood pressure, fatigue, irritability, intestinal problems like constipation, bloating, and diarrhea, all of which have lasting effects on our overall health.” In this environment, there are a few things that people can do to improve their health, even with an overload or a lack of motivation. The keys are to start small and focus on activities that help you feel fulfilled. “Make smaller changes that you can live with,” Emily advised. “When you are training for a marathon, you don’t start out running 26 miles. You might start out walking. The same thing applies with all aspects of health improvement. Pick one thing, set small goals, and commit to that small process, feel success, and add new goals when you feel solid with your new routines.” “Negative self-talk is highly destructive to our mental state and affects our bodies at a cellular level,” Emily said. “Being kind and accepting of yourself as you are right now is some of the best medicine. Studies also show that slowing down and breathing mindfully can have a profound impact on our state of mind, ability to focus and relieve stress. Focusing on your breath brings you out of fight-or-flight mode and into a restand-digest state that, even for one minute, helps your body heal.”

The Power of Touch

There is no doubt that the coronavirus pandemic has been stressful. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that stress leads to fear and worry about your health and the health of your loved ones, as well as your financial situation or loss of support services you depend on. Changes in sleeping and eating, difficulty concentrating, worsening of chronic physical and mental health problems, and increased use of tobacco, alcohol, and other substances also have proven common in the wake of COVID. “Everything about a person is interconnected,” said Tammy Longacre, massage therapist for Creative Hair Design Salon & Spa. “What a person feels emotionally also impacts their physical state. The power of touch is very important. With COVID, many of us are secluded to our homes, transforming our dining-room tables into an office, which isn’t ergonomically correct, and wearing masks when we are in public, which affects us socially because we aren’t seeing smiles anymore. Humans need to be around people. We need touch and interaction. We need structure.” Tammy Longacre Creative Hair Design Creative Hair Design various modalities of Salon & Spa massage therapy to ease your pain, inside and out. That includes Swedish, stone, and deep-tissue massage, which is a terrific option if you have chronic muscle problems like soreness, injury, or imbalance, and reflexology massage, which stimulates certain areas of your feet and promotes health and well-being. They also offer couples massage, so you can work out the kinks with your friend or significant other! For the expecting or lactating mother, there’s nothing more relieving than one of their prenatal massages, and a dip in the hydrotherapy tub is fantastic for your lymph system. “With so many things being canceled or closed, make a special effort to find healthy alternatives to keep your physical mental, spiritual, emotional, and social health a priority,” Tammy said. “Massage and self-care are a terrific place to start!”

God’s Got Your Back

Entrepreneur Judith Ngozi Obodougo created her Omaha business, God’s Got Your Back, LLC, very much with whole body-andmind health in mind. A single mother and the author of two books about navigating difficult paths in life as she had from the time she was a child in Nigeria through living today in Omaha, Judith produces apparel with the “God’s Got Your Back” messages on them and sells natural products out of her health and beauty shop to help people achieve overall health. That includes the Forever Aloe Vera products that she recently introduced to her inventory. Judith Ngozi Obodougo God’s Got Your Back “Aloe vera products are tremendous for protecting your skin against free radicals and from the dryness caused by the increased stress of the times,” Judith said. “It also has been shown to have anti-inflammatory properties, aids in digestion, and speeds wound healing, which can strengthen your immune system!” With everything Judith does, her message is the same: “People can achieve anything in life if they know, first and foremost, to trust in God.”

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