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Vitals™ Aware Services Partners with NextNav to Bring Precision Vertical Location to Ensure Safety and Comfort for Mental Health Related Responder Services
Partnership provides safety and location services for people living with intellectual, developmental and mental health challenges MCLEAN, Va., June 13, 2022
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[{"type":"text","content":"Partnership provides safety and location services for people living with intellectual, developmental and mental health challenges\nMCLEAN, Va., June 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Vitals™ App, the revolutionary service changing the way people with intellectual, developmental and mental health challenges receive emergency services, has joined the rapidly growing NextNav partner ecosystem to ensure application users can be precisely located in multi-story environments. Vitals™ offers an invaluable resource to first responders: a way to receive critical information about an individual’s specific needs and conditions in real-time – enabling safer interactions and positive outcomes. Twenty percent of the population lives with a mental health related challenge, behavior or cognitive triggers which can, under the wrong circumstances, surface negatively and have the adverse effect on an emergency response. With the Vitals™ App, individuals, families and caregivers can share their information as well as request assistance from responders in a means they understand, providing critical details which will ensure a calm, humanized response process. “We founded Vitals™ with a single purpose in mind – providing a voice and independence to the millions of people needing advocacy, transparency and most importantly a safer outcome when they face an emergency situation,” said Janeé Harteau, President and CEO of Vitals™ Aware Services. “While we have a serious mental health epidemic in our nation, that does not mean that millions of people are not able to function in society; rather, Vitals™ is empowering these individuals and families with the tools they need to maintain and, in times, gain independence, a voice, dignity and quite simply, the basic right to be a productive member of society. One critical factor in this is making sure everyone has a tool to reach our nation’s first responders on terms they understand, with information all responders need. By powering our Vitals™ App with NextNav’s precision vertical location service, these individuals will have a means for responders to serve them on terms they relate to, as something as simple as taking a wrong turn in a building can make the difference between a good outcome and a tragic one.” “In today’s public safety environment, we see not only growing challenges, but opportunities related t...