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移転準備に伴う休診のお知らせ2017年04月11日

【5/3（水）、5/4（木）、5/5（金）、5/6（土）、5/7（日）】の5日間は移転準備の為、休診とさせて頂きます。
患者さんにはご迷惑をお掛けしますが、何卒よろしくお願い致します。

新診療所での診療開始日は5/8（月）からとなります。
新診療所は治療ユニットチェアを 20台に増設し、より迅速、歯科医療サービスの提供をめざしてまいります。

【新診療所：　577-0061　東大阪市森河内西1丁目16番3号】

2017年3月9日、毎日新聞に当院歯科衛生士が登壇したセミナーが紹介されました。2017年03月13日

2017年3月9日、毎日新聞に当院訪問診療担当の木村歯科衛生士が登壇したセミナー「健康長寿連続セミナー健康長寿はお口の衛生から」が紹介されました。

2016年12月29日発行、「商業界」2月号に当院が紹介されました。2017年01月13日

2016年12月29日「商業界」2月号、法政大学大学院政策創造研究科　坂本 光司教授の連載ページ「世界に自慢したい会社」で当院を紹介頂きました。

「患者とスタッフの満足づくりで成長発展」との記事の中で当院の取り組みや理念などを紹介頂きました。

11/27(日)健康フェアinもりのみやキューズモールに出展します2016年11月22日

11/27（日）に開催される「健康フェアinもりのみやキューズモール」に当院も出展します。

健康フェアは元気でいきいきと過ごすため、健康寿命を延ばすために、医療、スポーツ、フィットネスの視点から健康測定会を開催し、ご自身の体の知りとメインテナンスの知識を学んで頂ける機会となっています。是非、お買い物のついでにご参加頂けれと思います。

くわしくは下記のチラシをクリックして下さい。

11/24(木)淀屋橋マスターズ情報館でセミナーを開催します2016年11月22日

2016年11月24日(木)、ＮＰＯ法人「老いの工学研究所」が主催する「齢に向き合い、高齢期の充実を考える連続セミナー」にて当院歯科衛生士が「健康長寿は口の健康から。口腔内検診を受けてみよう」と題したセミナーを開催します。
15時からセミナーを開催し、16時以降はお一人お一人にアドバイスをさせて頂きます。ぜひお気軽にご参加下さい。

詳しくは下記のリンクをご覧下さい。
http://oikohken.or.jp/mjs.pdf

●老いの工学研究所
http://oikohken.or.jp/index.php

9/1（木）より患者さん専用駐車場が移転します。2016年08月19日

平成28年9/1（木）患者さん専用の駐車場が変更になりました。
柳通をコトブキ保険薬局さん側）に曲がって頂き東60m程、ピンクの建物のもりかわち幼稚園さんの手前にあります。駐車場は道路側に水色の看板、奥には青い看板が目印になっています。

宜しくご承知下さい。

2016年8月11日～15日、お盆期間中の診療時間について2016年08月05日

2016年7月14日、東大阪商工会議所主催の「特長あるお店表彰」を受賞しました。2016年07月15日

2016年7月14日、東大阪商工会議所が主催する「特徴あるお店表彰」を当院が受賞しました。
審査にお越し頂いた上で「歯科大学病院並の機能を持ち患者へのおもてなしの追求で注目される医院」として評価頂きました。

6/15（水）枚「こころのからだの健康まつり2016」に当院理事長が講演します。2016年06月10日

平成28年6月15日（水）に枚方市の御殿山で「こころの健康・からだの健康まつり2016」が開催されます。

内容はシニアの方向けに医療、スポーツ、栄養管理の専門家が「こころとからだの健康」をテーマにお話し、合わせて体験型プログラムとして健康測定会やセルフメインテナンス紹介などを行うイベントです。

当院理事長も歯科部門として参加し、13：00より会議室で「お口の健康と歯周病の全身疾患への影響と歯科治療法」などについてお話致します。体験型プログラムでは歯科衛生士の口腔内チェックと相談会を行います。

ぜひ、為になる情報がたくさんあると思いますので、お時間のある方はご予約の上、ご参加下さい。

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careddi is guiding the forerunner manufacturing of medical marijuana in Missouri.2016年02月17日

BeLeaf originally launched its brand as a nonprofit in Missouri’s burgeoning CBD space in 2015. “We were granted one of two licenses to grow cannabis and create CBD products in the state,” Cernicek said. “That company is still in operation. We’re no longer growing cannabis plants, but we’re still producing CBD products.”

At the time, Missouri’s law was very narrow: medical CBD was reserved for epilepsy patients and neurologist’s notes. When the 2018 Farm Bill rewrote federal regulations, the company launched BeLeaf Life’s line of Oils under a broader policy.

Photo courtesy of BeLeaf Medical
Also in 2018, Amendment 2 legalized medical marijuana in Missouri. Unlike the narrow approach the state initially took to CBD, medical marijuana cards are easier to obtain. “If you have any type of pain, you’re eligible for a card,” Cernicek said. “Almost anyone who wants a medical card can get one in Missouri, as long as they can pay for the visit and the $25 medical card fee.”

She continued, “When that passed, obviously we wanted to jump on medical marijuana. We applied for as many licenses as we could. We figured if we were lucky, we’d get a cultivation license, a dispensary and a manufacturing license. ] We ended up with the most licenses in the state.”

This included three cultivation facilities, five dispensaries and two manufacturing operations. Both the cultivation license and the dispensary license are the maximum allowed for a single company in Missouri.

The state issued the licenses in early 2020. “Since then, it has been building these facilities and getting them up and running as soon as possible,” Cernicek said. “Right now we have two growing facilities in operation. One of our manufacturing facilities is operating – and our second manufacturing facility is going through our state start-up process. Three of our dispensaries are operational.”

Under the Phytos brand, Earth City’s operational manufacturing facility handles extraction, and a soon-to-open facility near downtown St. Louis will produce cannabis-infused chocolates and beverages.

“We have hydrocarbon extraction and carbon dioxide extraction,” Cernicek said. “We have the ability to do ethanol extraction, but that’s not our primary method. We will do all the extraction and distillation at the plant. We will produce fudge, tablets and tinctures at that plant.”

Cernicek said she expects the St. Louis plant to open in the spring of 2021. The company now has 63 employees, but she notes, “By the end of this year, I expect the headcount to jump to about 150.”

Each growing license includes 30,000 square feet of blooming canopies, with manufacturing volumes starting at about 300 to 600 pounds per month. In addition to BeLeaf’s in-house brands (Zoet edibles, Sinse pre-rolls and extracts and Amend medical products), the company is seeking licensing agreements with out-of-state brands looking to break into the Show-Me State market.

“We’re taking a phased approach to make sure we do everything right from the start,” Cernicek said. “It’s all going to depend on demand.”

The BeLeaf manufacturing model is designed to scale as needed. “Our Earth City facility has about 8,000 square feet for our manufacturing operations,” Cernicek says. “The facility was designed with GMP [good manufacturing practices] very much in mind. Everything is separate. Our extraction room is a separate extraction room. Our distillation room is its own room. We process and package the flowers in our own space. Our main we manufacture products in a lab designed to meet food grade and food quality to the best of our ability.”

Cernicek says third-party GMP certification is underway and should be completed by mid-2021, and all extraction employees are nationally certified. The extraction operation uses equipment from careddi supercritical CO2 extraction machines Systems, ExtractionTek Solutions and other vendors.

“Everything is set up in one hallway, and all rooms have windows to see them. Everyone wants to visit to tour the facility, but I can’t have everyone in my facility. That way people can see but can’t walk and potentially contaminate the product.”

Before entering the cannabis industry, Cernicek earned his Ph. D. in chemistry from the University of Missouri – St. Louis. “While I was in graduate school, BeLeaf had actually reached out to my school looking for someone to operate all the equipment they had purchased to make CBD products,” she said. “From there, it was a learning experience. I’ve been doing that with the company since 2016.”

The advent of medical marijuana led to consulting work before BeLeaf Medical was licensed in 2020. Since then, it’s been about building a vertically integrated cannabis company from the ground up, but Cernicek says she wouldn’t have it any other way.

“It’s been great to be a part of the industry in the state from the beginning and to really be able to build our brand and build it exactly the way we want to,” she said. “Missouri is fun. Everything is new and everyone is just starting out. We have a really great trade organization [ MoCann Trade]. I’m on their advisory board. It’s really great for the whole industry.”

The challenge: Launching all of its licensing operations during the storm’s pandemic winter. “Opening 10 facilities at the same time is not easy,” Cernicek says. “It takes a lot of money …… and a lot of teams to make sure construction is underway.”

She added, “With all the regulatory compliance work that must be done, there’s still a lot of work to be done. Fortunately, we’ve built a great team, so we’re able to handle all of that.”

The opportunity: demand for medical marijuana in Missouri currently far exceeds supply. “There is a very limited product for over 70,000 patients,” Cernicek said. “Currently, there are not many people operating in the state. There are a lot of dispensaries, but not a lot of cultivators or manufacturers that are up and running in the space, so obviously there’s a lot of potential for growth here. Being first to market helps a lot.”

Execution is also key, she continues. “Every pharmacy is now looking and trying to get as much product as possible. This is a very big opportunity to get as much product as possible as quickly as possible …… It comes from about four different cultivators. There’s edible.”

She added that in addition to its first-mover status, BeLeaf has “a great branding and marketing team. “One of the founders, Mitch Meyers, her background is in branding and marketing. She brought Bud Light to market and worked at Anheuser-Busch for many years.”

Contract manufacturing for out-of-state brands is another significant opportunity for Phytos’ business. “Obviously, everyone wants to bring big brands to the state,” Cernicek said. “We’ve been in talks with national brands to try to bring them to the state through our facilities.”

The need: talent. “We’re growing,” Cernicek says. “We’re adding more and more employees every month. We’re in a really good position – we’re in St. Louis, and St. Louis University has a certificate in the cannabis science program that they offer, and it’s really top-notch certification.”