Skin cancer screenings

Skin cancer screenings

LISBON — The Columbiana County Health Department is offering free skin cancer screenings on Tuesday. Call (330) 424-0272 for an appointment.

Health careers event

EAST LIVERPOOL — Area residents interested in a career in health care may attend a free Health Care Career workshop from 9:30 a.m. to 12:40 p.m. Friday at Kent State East Liverpool Campus, 400 East Fourth St. Registration begins at 9:15 a.m. Call (330) 420-9675 ext. 0 to preregister. The Northeast Ohio HealthForce is presenting the event in partnership with the Columbiana, Trumbull and Mahoning County One Stops.

Transplant achievement

YOUNGSTOWN — Humility of Mary Health Partners’ St. Elizabeth Health Center is one of three Northeast Ohio hospitals recognized by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for achieving at least the national average of 3.75 or greater in the number of organs transplanted per donor over the last 12 months. Also, St. Elizabeth was among several Northeast Ohio hospitals that achieved a conversion rate at or above the national average of 75 percent.

Park Vista passes survey

YOUNGSTOWN — Park Vista achieved a deficiency-free survey from the Ohio Department of Health in a survey of the Anne Kilcawly Christman Health Care Center completed this month. ODH surveys health care agencies annually for compliance with a comprehensive set of state and federal regulations.

Well-child clinic

GIRARD — The well-child immunization clinic is at 11 a.m. Nov. 12 at the Girard Health Department, 100 W. Main St. The clinic is free to Girard City children. Parents are reminded to bring a copy of the child’s immunization record; that a parent or guardian must accompany children under the age of 18, and that they must preregister their child. Call (330) 545-6048.

Three-part program

YOUNGSTOWN — Humility of Mary Health Partners and New Bethel Baptist Church are co-sponsoring a three-part program aimed at getting people healthy. Entitled “Walk on the Healthy Side: Heart, Mind, Body and Soul,” the program begins with health screenings from 9 a.m. to noon Nov. 15. Part two of the program is from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dec. 6, when participants will receive their test results and learn what the numbers mean. They’ll be introduced to part three of the program, an eight-week walk fitness program.

The program is free, but registration is required and appointments must be made. Activities will be at New Bethel Baptist Church, 1507 Hillman St. The registration deadline is Friday. For more information or to register, call (330) 480-3151 or toll-free at (877) 700-4647.

Trumbull WIC moving

WARREN — Effective Nov. 12, the main clinic for Trumbull County’s WIC (Women, Infants and Children) and Resource Mothers programs, free and available to any eligible woman in need in Trumbull County, will be located at the Gibson Building, 258 E. Market St. WIC, the federally funded program administered through Humility of Mary Health Partners, provides education and nutritious food for pregnant women, new breastfeeding moms, and infants and children up to age five. WIC also has an office at 979 Tibbetts-Wick Road., Girard. For more information, call (330) 394-0990 (Warren) or (330) 539-1010 (Girard).

Foundation awards clinic

YOUNGSTOWN– The Neil Kennedy Recovery Clinic (NKRC) recently received a grant of $5,000 from the Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley to support its Youngstown STARS program, an intergenerational before and after-school volunteer program in partnership with the Youngstown Afterschool Alliance. Volunteers age 50 or older serve as tutors and mentors for four Youngstown elementary schools including Paul C. Bunn, Harding, Taft, and Williamson.

Screenings on Thursday

CANFIELD — Life Line Screening is offered at the Western Reserve United Methodist Church on Thursday at 4580 Canfield Road. Appointments begin at 9:30 a.m. For cost and other information, call (800) 697-9721.

Dogs live it up

Some of us toss Fido some scraps off the dinner plate and call it a night. But there’s no shortage of over-the-top products to pamper a pet.

At Three Dog Bakery in Santa Monica, Calif., owners Rocky and Hannah Keever are experts. Customers routinely ask to see the priciest pet paraphernalia, without even looking around the store. For the pooch who has nearly everything.