Center reverified

Center reverified

WARREN

St. Joseph Health Center has been reverified as a Level III trauma center by the Verification Review Committee, an ad hoc committee of the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons. Verified trauma centers must meet criteria that ensure trauma care capability and institutional performance as outlined by the American College of Surgeons’ Committee on Trauma.

Grants awarded

YOUNGSTOWN

Beatitude House was recently awarded $13,000 in grants: $3,000 from the Charter One Foundation for its career and education preparation facility, The Potter’s Wheel, which provides low-income women with the opportunity to transform their lives and reach their personal, educational and career goals; and $10,000 from the J. Ford Crandall Foundation to purchase computers and offer computer instruction classes for homeless women and their children in The Potter’s Wheel program. A part-time computer instructor has also been hired.

For information on how to help Beatitude House, call 330-744-3147.

Asking for input

YOUNGSTOWN/WARREN

ValleyCare Health System, which includes Northside Medical Center, Trumbull Memorial Hospital and Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital, is asking for community input to honor a nurse from each hospital through its Patient Choice Award program. The award recognizes the level of quality care, comfort and compassion offered by nurses each day. The winner will be announced at the end of May. ValleyCare asks former patients of Northside, Trumbull Memorial and Hillside, and their family members, to be involved in spotlighting an exceptional nurse because patients are the ones directly impacted by outstanding care.

Nominations for the 2011 Patient Choice Award will be accepted through May 11. Nominations can be made online at the hospital system’s website at www.valleycarehealth.net; mailed to Trish Hrina, marketing director, ValleyCare Health System, 500 Gypsy Lane, Youngstown, OH 44501, or faxed to 330-884-5742.