Tour the food bank

Tour the food bank

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Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley invites residents of the Mahoning Valley to an open house Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at its warehouse at 2805 Salt Springs Road in Youngstown.

Food-bank board of directors and staff will thank those who helped the Mahoning Valley finish first in the Walmart Foundation’s Fighting Hunger Together Facebook challenge. Refreshments and a tour of the Food Bank will be available.

St. E’s honored for patient experience

Boardman

St. Elizabeth Boardman Health Center received an outstanding patient experience award for 2012 from HealthGrades.

HealthGrades released a new report on patient safety and satisfaction rates in hospitals across the United States. It found that hospitals with the highest patient ratings in physician and nursing communications on average have fewer patient safety events. The analysis was of patient safety data for hospitalizations between 2008 and 2010.

Lifesaving classes

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Free American Heart Association Family and Friends CPR/AED classes will take place Friday through June 7 at various local in Trumbull and Mahoning counties. The course teaches lifesaving skills of adult Hands-Only CPR, child CPR with breaths, adult and child AED use, infant CPR and relief of choking in an adult, child or infant. For more information, go to http://www.cprtrainingohio.com.

Joint-pain seminar

BOARDMAN

Humility of Mary Health Partners is offering a free joint-pain seminar for adults who suffer from sore or stiff knees and hips and are interested in learning more about surgical and nonsurgical joint-pain treatment options.

The seminar will be at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Azalea Room at St. Elizabeth Boardman Health Center, 8401 Market St., Boardman.

The seminar is free, but space is limited. To register, call 888-787-9537, or go to www.aboutstryker.com/seminars.

Dance and help fight prostate cancer

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USA Dance is hosting a dance to raise money that will go toward finding a cure for prostate cancer.

The event is June 17 at the Orthodox Center at 1025 N. Belle Vista Avenue in Youngstown.

The cost of the dance is $5 for USA Dance members, $10 for nonmembers and $2.50 for students. For more information, call 330-565-0726.

Concussion issues with adolescents

PITTSBURGH

Be careful not to rely on what adolescent athletes tell you about their recovery from concussions as the sole criterion for making return-to-play decisions, researchers from UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh warn sports-medicine practitioners.

In findings published online in the inaugural issue of Applied Neuropsychology: Child, researchers found that young athletes neglect the subtle symptoms — neuropsychiatric and sleep issues — and base their perceptions of their recovery primarily on physical symptoms such as headache and nausea.

Males in the study tended to feel more “recovered” from their concussions than females, suggesting females may experience more severe post-concussion symptoms than males, or males underreport their symptoms. Such gender differences merit more study, researchers concluded.