Domestic-violence discussion Oct. 17

Domestic-violence discussion Oct. 17

WARREN

The 2014 Domestic Violence Roundtable, offered by the Trumbull County Domestic Violence Task Force, will be from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 17 at DiVieste Banquet Hall, 754 North River Road NW.

The topic is “Trumbull County’s Response to Domestic Violence : Through Intervention by Answering the Question Why Does She Stay?”

The cost is $30, which includes continental breakfast and lunch. Six continuing- education hours are available for chemical-dependency counselors, social workers, health-care professionals and psychologists.

The registration deadline is Oct. 10. Call Marjorie Dangaran at 330-399-6270.

Free prostate screenings

WARREN

St. Elizabeth Health Center and Grace AME Church, 1137 Main Ave. SW, are offering free prostate screenings from 5 to 7 p.m. Sept. 23 at the church. The deadline to register is Friday. Call 330-841-2596 or 330-841-2594. Dinner will be provided by Abvie Pharmaceuticals. Physicians associated with NEO Urology are volunteering their time and services for the event.

Flu shots for adults

NILES

The Niles City Health Department is offering flu shots for adults 19 and older from 1 to 3 p.m. Oct. 3 at the Niles Senior Citizen Center, 14 E. State St.

Appointments are required. Call 330-544-3676. Attendees should bring their Medicaid or Medicare and/or their Anthem Senior Advantage Identification cards. For all other HMOs, the fee is $20.

Adoption info session slated in Warren

WARREN

The Northeast Ohio Adoption Services is presenting an informal information session for Mahoning Valley adults, either couples or singles, who are considering adoption or giving foster care to a school-age child.

The session is from 5 to 7 p.m. today at NOAS, 5000 E. Market St., Suite 26, Warren, when people can talk to NOAS staff to learn more about Ohio children and teens who need good families. Nearly 4,000 children in Ohio are waiting for homes.

Heart-failure guideline award

YOUNGSTOWN

St. Elizabeth Health Center has received the Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Gold Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association for the third year in a row.

St. Elizabeth’s earned the award by meeting stringent quality achievement measures for the diagnosis and treatment of heart-failure patients at a set level for a designated period.

They include proper use of medications and aggressive risk-reduction therapies such as cholesterol-lowering drugs, beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, aspirin, diuretics and anticoagulants while patients are in the hospital.

“At St. Elizabeth Health Center we are dedicated to continuously improving the quality of care we provide for our heart-failure patients,” says Mariann Pacak, director of Heart and Vascular Services said.

“Implementing the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure program helps us to achieve this by tracking and measuring our success in meeting internationally respected guidelines,” she said.

Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure is a quality- improvement program that helps hospital teams provide care in compliance with the most current, research-based AHA guidelines with the goal of speeding recovery and reducing hospital readmissions for heart- failure patients.