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Free program

NILES

Humility of Mary Health Partners Cancer Centers are offering a free program from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 29 at St. Joe’s at the Mall to educate participants about preventing sun damage that can lead to skin cancer and premature aging of the skin.

Participants will have the opportunity to take part in a Derma Scan, a simple device that uses ultraviolet light to show sun damage invisible to the human eye, and indicate where the individual has any sun damage and the condition of the individual’s skin.

For an appointment, call 330-652-7542.

Located inside Eastwood Mall in Niles, St. Joe’s at the Mall offers year-round health screenings and wellness programs, as well as the sale of retail home medical supplies.

Lifeguard training

HUBBARD

The Hubbard Community Pool is taking enrollments for lifeguard training. The course fee of $180 includes training by an authorized American Red Cross instructor, participant manual, CPR pocket mask and certification as a lifeguard upon successful completion.

The class begins May 6. It is from 5 to 9 p.m. and runs three consecutive weekends through May 21.

Call the Hubbard Community Pool at 330- 272-9901, option 9, to register. Call 392-2551 for details or go to www.mahoning-valley.redcross.org.

Speaker planned

YOUNGSTOWN

Dr. Robert Collins, reproductive endocrinologist with the Magee Center for Fertility and Reproductive Endocrinology, will present “Infertility: Advances in Treatments” on April 25 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Nonni’s Ristorante, 4042 Belmont Ave., Youngstown. The program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. To register, call the Womancare Center of UPMC Horizon at 724-347-7700 or toll-free at 1-866-347-7700.

Perfect score

NILES

Shepherd of the Valley Niles Assisted Living community, 1500 McKinley Ave., recently received a perfect score on its annual Ohio Department of Health survey.

Assisted living communities housing 17 or more people are licensed and surveyed annually.

Ohio has 598 assisted-living communities that must meet 324 regulations to achieve a perfect score. Each year, less than 50 percent achieve that goal, said Rick Mattix, Niles SOV associate director.

Labs accredited

FARRELL/GREENVILLE, PA.

The laboratories at UPMC Horizon’s Greenville and Shenango Valley campuses recently were awarded accreditation by the Accreditation Committee of the College of American Pathologists (CAP), which conducted an on-site inspection of the laboratory’s records and quality control of procedures for the preceding two years. CAP inspectors also examine laboratory staff qualifications as well as the laboratory’s equipment, facilities, safety program and record, and overall management of the laboratory.