Local hospitals granted magnet designation

Local hospitals granted magnet designation
The American Nurses Credentialing Center's (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program for excellence in nursing has redesignated St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown and St. Joseph Health Center in Warren as magnet hospitals for another four years. Also included in the magnet redesignation are diagnostic centers in Boardman and Austintown and the St. Joseph Outpatient Surgery Center in Howland. In 2002, St. Elizabeth's and St. Joseph's were the first hospitals in Ohio to receive magnet recognition.
Group to focus on holiday survival
ALLIANCE -- The Hospice Program of Alliance Visiting Nurse Association & amp; Hospice, the home care division of Alliance Community Hospital, is offering a new bereavement support group, Getting through the Holidays, starting Monday. The group will meet from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at AVNAH's main office, 885 S. Sawburg Road, Suite 106, and on consecutive Mondays during the first three weeks of December. Following the holidays, meetings will be at the same time Dec. 26, and Jan. 2, 2007. To register, call (330) 821-7055.
Ultrasound department attains accreditation
FARRELL AND GREENVILLE, Pa. -- UPMC Horizon's ultrasound departments at the Shenango Valley and Greenville campuses have received three-year accreditation from the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories for its adult and pediatric echocardiograph services.
Focusing on disorders
A support group is being formed for people suffering from panic, anxiety and agoraphobia disorders is being formed in the Mahoning Valley. The group will meet on Mondays from noon to 1 p.m,. and on Wednesdays from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Persons interested in attending should call (732) 940-9658.
It's not the burp that bites
Good news from the Netherlands: Burping does not raise your risk of cancer. Swallowing air, and the excessive burping that results, do not appear to cause acid reflux in people with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), according to a study in the American Journal of Gastroenterology last month.
To provoke belching, Dutch researchers infused air into the stomachs of 12 healthy individuals and 12 who had GERD. While people with GERD burped far more than the healthy subjects -- 52 burps over 24 hours for the GERD group, seven burps for the controls -- the researchers found no increase in acid reflux linked to the air and all that belching. That's good, since untreated GERD can raise the risk of Barrett's esophagus, a precancerous condition.