Strong bones program will begin at Eastwood

Strong bones program will begin at Eastwood

NILES — Beginning Monday, St. Joe’s at the Mall will launch Strong Bones, Strong People, a free program designed to benefit people with osteoporosis and those who are at risk. Participants will register for a 12-week regimen of personalized weight training and nutrition seminars, and are asked to make a 30-60 minute commitment three days a week. After the 12 weeks, participants are encouraged to maintain progress by using the weight machines for a small monthly fee. St. Joe’s at the Mall is inside the Eastwood Mall next to Sears. Call (330) 652-7542.

Alliance hospital earns MRI accreditation

ALLIANCE — Alliance Community Hospital has been awarded a three-year accreditation in Magnetic Resonance Imagining by the American College of Radiology, a national organization that serves more than 32,000 diagnostic and intervention radiologists, radiation oncologists and nuclear medicine and medical physicists.

The goal of the hospital’s Imaging Department is to become wholly ACR accredited. “Long term, we seek to achieve the highest levels of certification because our objective is to offer patients the most technologically advanced imaging services available,” said David Shroades, chief technology officer at ACH.

TMH foundation awards scholarships to 16

WARREN — Sixteen people were recently awarded scholarships totaling $13,000 through the Trumbull Memorial Hospital Foundation.

Recipients are Joseph Zalar, son of TMH employees Judy and Joel Zalar; Kellie Barbe, daughter of TMH employee Debbie Barbe; Judy Dodge, TMH employee; Samantha Popovec, daughter of TMH employee Donna Popovec; Jordan Pozzuto, daughter of Elm Road Surgery employee Wendy Pozzuto; Carissa Santangelo, daughter of TMH employee Vince Santangelo; George Snyder, TMH employee; and Brittany Wallace, daughter of TMH employee Debra Wallace; Kelly Baun, Hubbard High School; Amanda Binion and Kristina Pallante, Niles High School; Taylor Gee, J. F. Kennedy High School; Carly Roscoe and Mary Turek, Mathews High School in Vienna; and Annette Bishop, TMH employee.

Kelly Johnson, of Fonda, Iowa, received a scholarship established in honor of Dr. Robert L. Stauter, who died on Swiss Air Flight 111 on Sept. 2, 1998. His hometown is Fonda.

UPMC campuses receive accreditation

FARRELL/GREENVILLE, Pa. — The Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program of the American Osteopathic Association has granted a three-year accreditation to UPMC Horizon’s hospital campuses in Greenville and Farrell.

HFAP is one of two voluntary accreditation programs in the United States authorized by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to survey hospitals under Medicare. The other accreditation program is the Joint Commission, which granted UPMC Horizon a three-year accreditation at the end of 2007.

Foundation offers medical student loans

YOUNGSTOWN — Application forms for low-interest student loans are available from the Mahoning County Medical Society Foundation. To be eligible, students must be residents of Mahoning or Trumbull counties, must be enrolled in medical school or a school of osteopathic medicine, or participating in the bridge program at the three-year level or higher with Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine.

Interest on the loans is 1 percent below the prime rate at the time the loan is granted. Interest is forgiven if the recipient returns to Mahoning or Trumbull counties to practice medicine and becomes a member of the Mahoning County Medical Society. The deadline for submitting applications to the medical society is June 30. For more information or to receive an application, call (330) 533-04880.