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Airborne detection: Protection against threats that don’t have names yet

Real-time detection of airborne organisms, connected to the public health workflow that responds to it.

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The detection layer

Know what’s in the air before it’s in the clinic

Through the SCALE project under ARPA-H’s BREATHE program, led by Poppy Health, schools across multiple districts are getting real-time, continuous detection of up to 100 airborne organisms, wired into the building so that detection triggers a response.

Primary.Health is a subcontractor on the Poppy Health team, one of the performer teams in the BREATHE program, and provides the public health workflow around the detection: school health reporting, symptom tracking, testing, and outcomes measurement. As new organisms emerge, detection updates through software, so a building stays protected against threats that don’t have names yet.

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OVERVIEW

Tailored air safety approaches

With fewer infection control mandates, administrators need new ways to keep locations safe. Primary.Health’s team has performed hundreds of indoor air assessments and can design a program that delivers short-term results with your existing infrastructure.

Schools

Curb absenteeism from asthma, wildfires, allergies, and viruses through improved air safety and keep the community safe and healthy.

Public health

Track discrepancies in air safety across buildings, neighborhoods, and populations and identify opportunities to improve health equity and outcomes.

Congregate living

Fortify infection control protocols for older adult communities, correctional facilities, temporary housing, and other high-density quarters through air safety projects, testing, and improvements.

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OVERVIEW

Tailored air safety approaches

With fewer infection control mandates, administrators need new ways to keep locations safe. Primary.Health’s team has performed hundreds of indoor air assessments and can design a program that delivers short-term results with your existing infrastructure.

Schools

Curb absenteeism from asthma, wildfires, allergies, and viruses through improved air safety and keep the community safe and healthy.

Public health

Track discrepancies in air safety across buildings, neighborhoods, and populations and identify opportunities to improve health equity and outcomes.

Congregate living

Fortify infection control protocols for older adult communities, correctional facilities, temporary housing, and other high-density quarters through air safety projects, testing, and improvements.

Pilot highlights

Getting a Head Start on air quality

Watch the highlights from our air safety pilot at 12 Head Start centers in Oakland, California, a region frequently affected by wildfire smoke: indoor air assessment, improvement, and the health impact on schools.

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Our trusted indoor air safety partner Poppy Health shares our mission

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How it works

At Primary, we understand every organization faces unique administrative and health challenges. Our simple, affordable four-step approach can quickly improve air safety for healthier living, learning, and working.

  1. 1

    Assess

    We assess air safety in rooms at breathing level and provide certified air change rate per hour (eACH) score for each room along with the new standard EOA (Equivalent Outdoor Air).

  2. 2

    Respond

    We suggest short-term fixes like the proper use of air purifiers along with longer term strategies to increase air intake and adjust HVAC systems.

  3. 3

    Empower

    Success requires a complete program including the education your building staff and facility managers need to make changes, focus resources, prioritize improvements, and spend responsibly.

  4. 4

    Report

    We can integrate our data into your dashboard and data management system. We can also provide custom notifications for facilities, teachers, and staff during higher risk times of year.

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Insights from the team

Blog

Primary.Health Pledges to Meet White House Clean Air in Buildings Challenge

Better indoor air quality is key to preventing the spread of Flu, COVID-19 and other airborne diseases, particularly among vulnerable populations. Primary.Health is joining other…

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Blog

May 16 Roundtable on Healthy Air: Prepare for New ASHRAE and CDC Standards

NOTE: This event has concluded, but you can read highlights from the panel discussion here. How will the new air improvement standards just announced by…

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When Primary.Health integrated Poppy into our safety program, it made perfect sense. Poppy’s air monitoring system is an easy and unobtrusive way to visualize airflow and keep classrooms safe. Changes as simple as repositioning air filters can make a big difference.

Susanne DeRisi | Librarian and COVID testing program coordinator Synergy School in San Francisco

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All the latest Primary.Health updates

San Francisco Examiner

New building system aims to detect spread of disease before symptoms appear

Citing a nationwide rise in several infectious diseases, two health tech companies plan to test a new airborne-pathogen-detection and air-purification system at a San Francisco school later this year. Primary.Health and Poppy Health Inc., headquartered in San Francisco and Winter Park, Fla., respectively, said they’ve created a product that analyzes genetic information that can determine what pathogens are in the air in buildings. When certain pathogens are detected, the buildings’ HVAC systems are triggered to filter them out.

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Press release

Primary.Health Expands School Health Mission with ARPA-H-Funded BREATHE-SCALE Project

Primary.Health will support Poppy Health, Inc., an authority in indoor air technologies for sustainable and healthy buildings that was recently selected as a performer team in the ARPA-H BREATHE program. The ARPA-H BREATHE program aims to revolutionize public health by advancing our ability to monitor and improve indoor air quality and forecast emerging health threats.

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Primary.Health Launches Nation’s First Advanced Newborn Screening Case Management Platform

Newborn Screening Case Management offers integrated case management, automated follow-up and timely analytics for baby’s critical first test.

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Primary.Health Achieves HITRUST Certification, the Highest Standard of Healthcare Data Security

The public health platform meets security, privacy, and compliance requirements for preeminent industry certification

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Poppy Health Releases Results from Pilot with Primary.Health on Indoor Air Safety Monitoring for Schools

The pilot results showcase the importance of air monitoring for airborne illnesses

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K-12 Dive

How one district built a comprehensive COVID-19 testing program in a month

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Real-time airborne detection, connected to the public health workflow that responds to it.

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