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Pure Life Healthcare Management
Overview
Pure Life Healthcare Management (PLHM) aims to change the healthcare landscape for people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by providing integrated, wrap-around care that responds to the unique needs of this significantly underserved population.
Over 1.3 million people in Canada live with some form of PTSD or trauma. Many are veterans, first responders, healthcare providers and social workers. In lieu of trying to heal, many simply keep pushing forward, either unable to find help or unaware help exists.
That's why Canada's 600,000 frontline healthcare and social work staff are experiencing record attrition rates. It's why Canada's 600,000 veterans and 700,000 first responders have significantly higher rates of PTSD and burnout compared to the general public. This is why Canada is in the process of implementing a National Strategy for PTSD focusing on prevention, early intervention and treatment.
Part of that strategy involves increasing funding for mental health services and looking for partners.
Drawing the majority of its revenue from government and insurance benefits, PLHM provides more than 20 services to support PTSD and trauma patients.
Backed by an experienced team with a deep understanding of issues surrounding mental health, PLHM is also structured to leverage its own value chain, which includes wrap-around care clinics, occupational therapy, alternative medical treatments, pharmacies and partnerships with organizations such as Heroes Haven Society.
PLHM maintains full ownership of its ecosystem, including commercial and real estate holdings.
For years, Canada has underserved the vast population suffering from PTSD. This is finally changing; and PLHM is on the front lines, guided by its corporate mantra, “connecting purpose with profit.” The company's current plan begins with a virtual care model, opening physical locations once it's onboarded enough clinics to ensure profitability on day one. With this strategy, it expects to ultimately achieve $90.85 million in revenue by 2025.
In November 2023, PLHM acquired Revolution Medical Cannabis (RMC), a virtual clinic specializing in the delivery of medical cannabis for the Canadian market. RMC has built an impressive network of doctors providing top-tier virtual care to thousands of patients across the country with its state-of-the-art platform. By integrating RMC's unique offerings, PLHM aims to enhance its current services.
Two additional clinics were acquired by PLHM in 2024, aiming to expand its physical footprint in Alberta and its virtual client base across Canada. The first acquisition is a clinic in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, that provides wrap-around care services for the communities it supports. The other is an education and telehealth clinic that will expand PLHM’s virtual footprint across Canada and leverage the benefits of this more extensive scale.
Company Highlights
- Over 1.3 million Canadians currently struggle with PTSD and trauma, a population largely underserved by the country's mental health services.
- Canada is implementing a National Strategy for PTSD focused on prevention, early treatment and intervention, increasing funding for mental health services and looking for partners.
- Pure Life Healthcare Management is strategically positioned to be among these partners.
- Pure Life Healthcare Management offers more than 20 services to support PTSD and trauma, creating a wrap-around healthcare ecosystem that provides patients with everything they need to heal.
- The company is backed by an experienced leadership team and a business structure designed to maximize the value chain, which includes:
- Wrap-around care clinics
- Pharmacies
- Alternative medicines
- Occupational therapies
- Partnerships
- Joint ventures
- Real estate and commercial holdings
- One of Pure Life Healthcare Management's most prominent partnerships is with the non-profit Heroes Haven Society, which provides free testing and support for individuals suffering from trauma.
- The majority of Pure Life Healthcare Management’s revenue will stem from government and insurance benefits.
- Pure Life Healthcare Management began with a virtual model, and has since expanded its digital and physical footprint with a number of acquisitions between late 2023 and early 2024.
Key Services and Partnerships
PTSD Treatment
Targeting veterans, first responders, healthcare and social workers, PLHM’s wraparound approach to healthcare will provide support throughout the entire healing process, from counseling and medical testing to dentistry and physiotherapy. The majority of clients are expected to require only a light to medium touch, with one to six visits per month. However, PLHM also expects a minority of highly complex cases which will require up to $100,000 annually per client with 10 to 20 visits per month.
Provincial healthcare and other benefit packages will cover the majority of PLHM’s services. The company will also operate on a proven telehealth model with partnered doctors, nurses and complex care managers.
Highlights:
- Wrap Around Support: PLHM’s in-house services include:
- Dentists
- Pharmacies
- Physiotherapy
- Medical testing
- Doctors
- Care workers
- Counseling
- Psychology
- Medical equipment
- Sound Financial Stewardship: Drawing on their extensive experience, the company's leadership team has established the following plan for directing its spending:
- Client Care/Clinic Development (47 percent): Includes pharmacy and healthcare acquisitions and increased patient onboarding capacity.
- Market Development (13 percent): Includes marketing to increase reach, customer acquisition and public events.
- Medical Production (15 percent): A 12-month runway of operating expenses with a 20 percent contingency; includes production, manufacturing and acquisitions to meet growth demand.
- Innovation and Growth (25 percent): Primarily focused on developing the company's network in new areas for Phase 2 and Phase 3. This includes physical clinic expansions, enhanced customer experiences and data evaluations, new joint ventures and acquisitions, and manufacturing products to fulfill existing purchase orders.
Heroes Haven Society
A strategic partner to PLHM, Heroes Haven Society is a not-for-profit organization primarily geared towards veterans, providing free testing and support for individuals struggling with trauma. Through this partnership agreement, clients will be referred to PLHM’s wrap-around clinic support. Heroes Haven also operates a fundraising program to help offset any costs not already covered by government and benefits packages.
Highlights:
- Research and Development: In addition to supporting the development of government policy, clinical research partners at Heroes Haven consistently evaluate new programs for government funding.
- Services and Supports: Heroes Haven offers the following programs and services:
- Government contracting
- PTSD testing
- Family support services
- PTSD financial coordination
- PTSD support referrals
- Funding service gaps
- Peer support
- Clinical research
- Legal advice
- Advocacy to government
Management Team
Shaun Good — Chief Executive Officer, Executive Chairman, Founder
With a diverse background in various industries, Shaun Good has demonstrated his leadership and entrepreneurial spirit throughout his career. After founding a successful construction company, he transitioned into a career with a major financial company. Responding to his clients' growing interest in investment opportunities, Good entered the cannabis industry in 2017.
As the founder of four companies in BC, one of which focuses on the research and development of cannabis cultivars and terpenoids for the medical industry, Good demonstrates a relentless pursuit of innovation and an endless commitment to helping others succeed.
Robert Nichols — Director
Robert Nicholas is a seasoned entrepreneur and CEO with a proven track record of building successful companies from the ground up. As the visionary leader of Crane Power, he has expertly navigated the company to new heights, expanding its reach from a local startup to a powerhouse with a presence across Canada and the US. His keen understanding of market dynamics coupled with his ability to foster strong relationships has allowed him to assemble a team of top-tier professionals dedicated to delivering exceptional results.
Under Nichols' guidance, Crane Power has generated millions in revenue and garnered an impressive portfolio of more than 100 satisfied clients. The Crane team, known for its unwavering commitment to excellence, consistently delivers projects on time and on budget. With their impressive report card as a testament to their achievements, Nichols and his team continue to push the boundaries of innovation and excellence in their field.
Dr. Riyaan Hassen - Director
Dr. Riyaan Hassen is a family physician trained in South Africa. His patient-focused care has led him towards changing healthcare to improve patient outcomes and the patient experience within the healthcare system. This has been achieved by founding Revolution Medical Clinic, Revolution Medical Cannabis, Wosler Diagnostics, as well as being medical director of NUMI Health, all companies with a vision of improving patient care. He is also a co-founder of NuPharma, a wellness pharmacy that brings pharmacy care mobile, virtual and in-person.
Hassen believes that hard work coupled with a caring attitude provides the best outcomes for patients but also professionally. It was during his time spent at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa that he realized the immense value of family medicine and its importance to the overall well-being of the family unit. He has a keen interest in chronic disease management and special needs families.
Ali Oonwala - Director
Ali Oonwala aims to deflate the stigma around cannabis and encourage research. A strong advocate for the potential of CBD in sports medicine and chronic pain management, Oonwala’s vision educates the public on diverse medical methods, including the positive impact of catalyzing cannabis's role in the opioid crisis.
Oonwala graduated from the University of Alberta School of Pharmacy in 2002, after practicing in Seattle for several years.
Forward Water Technologies
Overview
Forward Water Technologies (TSXV:FWTC) is helping lithium mining companies and other industries reduce their environmental impact through its innovative wastewater treatment technology that enables industrial operations to reduce liquid waste volume by up to 95 percent.
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings continue to be a key business strategy for organizations as they impact public perception and partnership possibilities. For water-intensive industries, such as mining, sustainable wastewater management is critical.
Transformative wastewater technologies are critical for both businesses and the world’s population. In fact, unless sufficient progress is achieved, UNICEF and WHO estimate that 1.6 billion people will be without access to safe drinking water by 2030, and 2.8 billion will be without access to safe sanitation and hygiene. Water treatment technologies can disrupt current trends and improve global access to safe drinking water.
Through its Forward Osmosis (FO) technology, Forward Water is providing an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional wastewater disposal. Traditionally, wastewater disposal requires transporting untreated wastewater for deep well disposal or high-intensity thermal treatment.
Forward Water’s FO system is installed at the client site, and wastewater is treated to reduce waste volume and produce valuable clean water for reuse in the manufacturing process. Then, the significantly reduced volume of wastewater is transported and disposed of, significantly saving on transportation and disposal costs.
The FO technology targets three massive sectors: industrial wastewater, mining and food manufacturing. Forward Water’s unique and patented FO technology achieves high-rate water extraction within a low-energy continuous process. The process reduces waste and allows up to 95 percent water recovery, ready for reuse.
Forward Water’s Li-FO™ technology is ideal for lithium-brine mining operations, allowing mines to “fine tune” brine sources to improve concentration by up to 20 times. This results in improved recovery and makes lower-concentration brines economically viable. Forward Water is currently embarking on an early development testing project to further evaluate and refine the technology’s viability in lithium mining.
In 2023, the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Forward Water Technologies Inc., licensed specific intellectual property from FUJIFILM Corporation to solidify the protection of its water treatment technology platform.
CleanTech Lithium (AIM:CTL,Frankfurt:T2N,OTC:CTLHF) has contracted FWT to provide advisory services for the support and development of CleanTech Lithium's direct lithium extraction (DLE) process in Chile. The collaboration will use FWT’s industrial forward osmosis system in the hyper-concentrating of CleanTech Lithium's eluate and its conversion into battery-grade lithium carbonate through Conductive Energy's DLE process.
Howie Honeyman, CEO, explained in an interview how the company’s technology can improve lithium mining operations. “A lot of lithium being mined today around the world is coming from underground aquifers that store the lithium brine. The challenge is that the lithium is surrounded by other minerals and salts, requiring chemical ‘tweezers’ to pluck out that lithium. What we can do is, at multiple places in that process, we can concentrate that lithium-containing water stream, which makes it far easier for these miners to handle the volumes they need to extract that lithium.”
An experienced management team with technical expertise leads the company towards further refining and deploying its technology. The team includes experts in materials science, chemistry and engineering. Additional experts in corporate administration and financing round out the leadership team to lead the company toward its goals.
Company Highlights
- Forward Water Technologies has developed a patented wastewater treatment technology that reduces wastewater volume and improves reusability across multiple industries, including mining and food manufacturing.
- The company’s Forward Osmosis (FO) technology disrupts the traditional method of wastewater disposal by reducing the amount of waste that must be transported and disposed of, directly reducing costs.
- The FO technology also improves water reusability by up to 95 percent, reducing the expense of importing water for industrial processes.
- The Forward Water Technologies Li-FO™ process is applicable in the lithium mining sector by improving concentration by up to 20 times, allowing organizations to improve extraction efficiency.
- The company has partnered with a lithium-brine extraction operation to evaluate its Li-FO™ technology.
- Forward Water Technologies is in early negotiations to deliver an FWTC forward osmosis pilot system on-site in Chile to support a customer's lithium extraction process.
- Forward Water Technologies has licensed specific intellectual property from FUJIFILM Corporation to solidify the protection of its water treatment technology platform.
- The company has been contracted by CleanTech Lithium to provide advisory services for the support and development of CleanTech Lithium's direct lithium extraction processes in Chile.
- An experienced management team with a blend of relevant technical expertise leads the company toward refining and marketing its technology.
Key Project
Forward Osmosis Water Treatment
Forward Osmosis is a naturally occurring process in which water is spontaneously drawn across a membrane when one solution is higher in salt concentration than the other. The difference in salinity, known as the osmotic gradient, creates a low-energy water treatment process.
Forward Water Technologies has leveraged the naturally occurring process to innovate its patented, three-step FO technology, enabling a 95 percent wastewater reduction and 95 percent water recovery.
Project Highlights:
- Patented Three-Step Process: Forward Water Technologies FO process achieves low-energy and high-rate water extraction with a unique three-step design:
- Water Extraction: Water is drawn across the FO membrane into a salt draw solution. The combination of the patented draw solution and unique membrane “locks” the draw solution on one side of the membrane, creating a true closed-loop process.
- Water/Salt Separation: Next, a switchable water salt (SWS) achieves water/salt separation as low-grade heat is applied, and it phases from liquid to gas. As the gas leaves the solution, clean water is left behind. The energy necessary for this step is often found in many facilities in the form of waste heat.
- Salt Draw Reconcentration: Finally, as the gas leaves the solution, it is captured within the closed-loop system and is passively cooled, causing it to phase back into liquid form as an SWS. The SWS liquid is collected and recycled back to the front of the membranes in the water extraction step, creating a continuous process.
- Widely Applicable Water Treatment: The low-energy process allows organizations across several industries to improve water reclamation and reduce wastewater by up to 95 percent. Additionally, the process allows for up to 20 times concentration, making the process amenable to lithium-brine extraction and other potential applications.
- Significant Cost Savings: The primary value proposition for the FO process is cost reduction in wastewater transportation and disposal. With the process in place, more water is reclaimed for reuse in manufacturing, which reduces the raw volume of wastewater that must be transported and disposed of.
Management Team
Howie Honeyman - Chief Executive Officer and President
Dr. Howie Honeyman has 20 years of experience commercializing new technologies at Xerox, Cabot, E Ink, Natrix Separations and as former CTO of GreenCentre Canada. Honeyman commercialized high-capacity, high-throughput membranes for bioprocessing as SVP of Natrix Separations, which has since been acquired by Millipore-Sigma. Since 2015, Honeyman has been leading Forward Water to become a premier wastewater treatment solution. Honeyman is also an inventor of record on over 50 US patents and holds a PhD in chemistry from the University of Toronto.
Michael Willetts - Chief Financial Officer
Michael Willetts has over 25 years in financial leadership roles primarily in manufacturing, from large multinational businesses to startups, both public and private. He previously worked as an engineer in the automotive industry before entering into finance at Ford Motor Company. Willets went on to progressively larger finance roles in several international automotive suppliers (Textron, GKN, DSM) and Canadian manufacturers (Armtec, Stronach International, AirBoss of America). Willetts is currently providing fractional CFO services through WD Numeric Corporate Services in the manufacturing, SaaS and cannabis industries. Willetts graduated with a BASc, BComm and MBA from the University of Windsor.
Wayne Maddever - Chief Operating Officer
Dr. Wayne Maddever received his Ph.D. in materials science engineering from the University of Toronto. Since 1985, he has held senior executive management positions with technically based businesses in start-up, turnaround or acquisition situations where his skills in change management have brought considerable success in the commercialization of new technologies. His experience in both private and public companies, domestically and internationally, spans a broad variety of industries, including bio and advanced materials, precision manufacturing, recycling, waste-to-energy and medical devices. He holds a number of patents in several fields. He is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. In addition to his duties as COO of Forward Water, he is currently portfolio manager at Bioindustrial Innovation Canada, one of the major shareholders of Forward Water.
Grant Thornley - VP Engineering Solution Sales
Grant Thornley is a business strategist with more than 25 years of experience. He has developed and grown international water/wastewater markets through innovative growth hacking techniques and processes, synergized with product development and positioning, data analytics and acceleration of go-to-market strategies through alliances and partnerships. Having expertise in chemical, mechanical and biological treatment processes as well as designing hundreds of municipal and industrial applications, Thornley brings a knowledge-to-action approach to helping clients solve problems and realize new opportunities in water reuse, energy conservation and CO2 reduction.
Leonard Seed - Director of Engineering & Operations
Leonard Seed has over 18 years of experience developing and commercializing new water and wastewater treatment technologies, primarily in a start-up environment. Seed is named as an inventor on over seven patents and has authored several publications. Seed is a professional engineer and has an MSc in environmental engineering from the University of Guelph. Leonard holds inventorship on seven US patents and is an instructor at Mohawk College teaching aspects of water treatment technologies and leading research efforts on forward osmosis.
Philip Jessop - Executive Research Director
Dr. Philip Jessop is a professor and Canada Research Chair of Green Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He also serves as the technical director of GreenCentre Canada and executive research director at Forward Water Technologies. After his Ph.D. (British Columbia, 1991) and a postdoctoral appointment (Toronto, 1992), he became a contract researcher in Japan working for R. Noyori (Nobel Prize 2001). As a professor at the University of California-Davis (1996-2003) and since then at Queen’s, he has studied green solvents and the chemistry of carbon dioxide. Distinctions include the NSERC Polanyi Award (2008), Killam Research Fellowship (2010), Canadian Green Chemistry & Engineering Award (2012), Eni Award (2013), Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada (2013), a Canada Research Chair Tier 1 (2013 to 2020), and the NSERC Brockhouse Prize (2019). He serves as chair of the editorial board for the journal Green Chemistry, has chaired three international conferences, and helped create GreenCentre Canada, a national center of excellence for the commercialization of green chemistry technologies. Forward Water is a spin-off company based on Dr. Jessop’s switchable solvents.
Quarterly Activities Report for the Period Ended 31 March 2024
Highlights
Solonópole Project, Ceará, Brazil
- Anomalous lithium values above 100 ppm (and up to 631 ppm) found in 383 soil samples within existing and new target areas.
- Integration and interpretation of these soil sample results with data from geophysics, geological mapping (138 line-km), trenching and RC drilling (~2,000m) further enhance prospectivity of existing and new targets.
- Combined datasets confirmed several swarms of pegmatite bodies striking in a NE-SW and E-W directions and identified new high priority areas.
- Nira interpreted to be the most prospective new target, with 180 soil samples of >100 ppm Li and as high as 524 ppm Li covering an area of at least 1km2.
- Nira also features 17 pegmatite outcrops with average widths of up to 30 meters and strike lengths from 200m to 600m.
- Planning for the next follow-up drilling campaign is underway.
Napperby Project, Northern Territory, Australia
- Oceana’s Napperby Project covers some of Arunta Province’s hottest granites plutons, the Wangala Granite (uranium) and Ennugan Mountains Granite (uranium/thorium).
- Both granite plutons show outstanding uranium/thorium ratios and are almost fully encapsulated within Napperby’s EL32836 and ELA32841.
- Follow-up exploration activities will target uranium and Rare Earth Elements (REEs) in parallel with Lithium-Caesium-Tantalum (LCT) pegmatites.
Corporate
- Experienced geologist and mining executive, Aidan Platel, appointed as non- executive director.
- Brazilian-based geologist, Mike Sousa, appointed as Exploration Manager and Competent Person.
- The Company remains well-funded with cash at 31 March of ~$2.67m.
OPERATIONS
Solonópole Project, Ceará State, Brazil
The Solonópole Project area is located in the state of Ceará, north-eastern Brazil and consists of ten (10) exploration permits covering approximately 124km2 (Figure 1), owned by Oceana’s subsidiary Ceará Litio. The project is approximately three to four hours by road from the state capital Fortaleza and deep-water port of Pecém, and is well serviced by sealed highways and high voltage electricity.
Figure 1: Solonópole Project permits and targets drilled in May – June 2023 (red dots)
Large-Scale Soil Sampling and Geological Mapping at Solonópole Lithium Project
The large-scale infill soil sampling program that commenced in March 2023 continued over the project area (Figure 2). The optimized sampling grids are along 200m spaced lines with 25m sampling stations, aligned north south to cut across all typical pegmatite strike directions in this area.
As at 31 March 2024, over 10,300 soil samples had been collected from Solonópole and 8,741 soil samples had been analysed by X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) for Lithium-Caesium-Tantalum (LCT) pathfinders, of which 1,908 soil samples have lab results validated by Oceana´s internal QA/QC. Anomalous lithium values above 100 ppm and up to 631 ppm were found in 383 soil samples within existing and new target areas.
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Results From First Drilling at Abbotts North Confirm LCT System
HIGHLIGHTS
- Assay results from Abbotts North confirm continuation of LCT system
- Focus shifts to targets identified to the north and east of previous drilling
- Field work over these newly identified areas has commenced
- Premier1 is fully funded for second phase exploration in these areas
A total of 11 RC holes for 1,623m were drilled to test the main outcropping pegmatites at the Buttamiah Prospect. Additional studies of the outcropping pegmatites in the larger Buttamiah Prospect area including fractionation vectoring using K/Rb ratios suggest the core of the system to be located to the east of the previous drilling.
In addition, the data indicate that LCT pegmatites occur within the granites to the north of the drill area. Further mapping and sampling of pegmatites in these areas as well as over the remaining tenement package has commenced. Focus is to delineate drill targets of higher grades and greater thickness that have the potential to form a significant lithium deposit within the existing LCT system.
Premier1 is fully funded for any subsequent phase two drilling program.
Figure 1: Cross-section of intercepted pegmatites showing significant results >0.05% Li2O.
Figure 2: Geological map of the Buttamiah Prospect with collar locations of completed RC drilling.
Significant intercepts from RC drilling undertaken on the Abbotts North project in February 2024 are shown in Table 1a. Drill collar details are shown in Table 1b.
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Pure Life Healthcare Management Investor Kit
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