Help Hotline Crisis Center receives grants

Help Hotline Crisis Center receives grants

YOUNGSTOWN

Help Hotline Crisis Center has received $24,000 in grants from three local foundations.

The Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley awarded Help Hotline a $10,000 grant for the Tri-County Family Violence Prevention Coalition, which helps employers to acknowledge and address domestic violence.

Help Hotline also received $7,500 from The Youngstown Foundation and $6,500 from the Edna B. and Thomas W. Zimmerman Family Memorial Fund part of The Youngstown Foundation.

The $7,500 grant is for implementation of a texting/online bullying prevention program; and the $6,500 grant will support the Suicide Hotline Program. In 2010, Help Hotline received 7,561 suicide-related calls.

New location for MRIs

New Castle, PA.

Jameson Health System’s new site for Open Bore MRI service is at the Lawrence County MRI and Diagnostic Imaging Center, 2526 Wilmington Road, New Castle. The Open Bore service, previously located in a freestanding building on Jameson Hospital’s North Campus, has been moved to make way for the new Emergency and Surgical Departments Building under construction.

Traditional MRI service continues to be offered in the Medical Imaging Department on the ground floor of Jameson Hospital.

Food for students

YOUNGSTOWN

Wells Fargo Advisors, with headquarters in St. Louis, Mo., awarded a $4,000 grant to Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley to help fund the BackPack Program at Campbell Elementary School. The BackPack Program provides food for children over the weekends during the school year.

Oh Wow! gets grant

YOUNGSTOWN

PNC and the distribution committee of The Walter E. and Caroline H. Watson Foundation have awarded a $5,000 grant to OH WOW! The Roger & Gloria Jones Children’s Center for Science & Technology, 11 W. Federal St. The money will be used for OH WOW!’s “Science Makes Cents” capital campaign.

UPMC adds doctors

GREENVILLE, Pa.

UPMC Horizon will kick off 2012 with an expansion of the hospitalist program at its Greenville campus with the addition of a full-time physician. At the same time, a new family medicine physician will join Greenville Medical Center-UPMC as a longtime medical staff member retires.

Dr. Thomas Pineo, who has practiced family medicine at Greenville Medical Center-UPMC for more than 10 years, will join UPMC Horizon’s hospitalist program in January.

Project Feed Our Valley wraps up ’11 campaign

Youngstown

The 2011 Project Feed Our Valley Campaign, sponsored by 21 WFMJ-TV, raised $71,599 and collected more than 74,000 pounds of food to feed hungry families in Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties.

In addition to raising funds and food during November and December, Project Feed Our Valley also created awareness about the growing number of hungry people in the Valley. In five years, Project Feed Our Valley has collected $289,090 and 329,943 pounds of food, said Michael Iberis, Second Harvest Food Bank, executive director.

“We are humbled by the tremendous community support garnered through this campaign, including the continued support of Sparkle Markets, Chevy All Stars, The Cafaro Foundation and the Eastwood Mall in Niles. Every dollar raised and every can of food collected makes a huge difference when more than 13,000 people each week in the Mahoning valley rely on our services,” Iberis said.

St. Elizabeth Health Center receives award

YOUNGSTOWN

St. Elizabeth Health Center has received the Get With The Guidelines Æ–Heart Failure Gold Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. The award recognizes the health center for achieving an aggressive goal for treating heart failure patients as outlined by the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology secondary prevention guidelines.

Get With The Guidelines Æ (GWTG) is a quality improvement initiative that provides hospital staff with tools that follow proven evidence-based guidelines and procedures in caring for heart failure patients to prevent future hospitalizations.

Get With The Guidelines Æ is the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s hospital-based quality improvement program that empowers health-care teams to save lives and reduce health-care costs by helping hospitals follow evidence-based guidelines and recommendations. For more information, visit www.heart.org/quality.