Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Low-interest loans for medical school
CANFIELD
Application forms for low-interest student loans are available from the Mahoning County Medical Society Foundation. The application deadline is July 1.
Applicants must be residents of Mahoning or Trumbull counties and must have completed at least one year of medical school or school of osteopathic medicine, or be participating in the bridge program at the year-three level or higher at Northeast Ohio Medical University.
Interest on the loans is 1 percent below the prime rate at the time the loan is granted. However, interest is forgiven if the recipient returns to Mahoning or Trumbull county to practice medicine and becomes a member of the Mahoning Valley Medical Society.
For information or to receive an application, call 330-533-4880.
Safe Sitter program
YOUNGSTOWN
Mercy Health Youngs-town, formerly Humility of Mary Health Partners, is accepting registrations for the Safe Sitter programs at St. Elizabeth Youngstown and St. Joseph Warren hospitals.
Cost for the program is $28.50, and scholarships are available for those who meet financial eligibility requirements.
Classes are 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday and July 22 and 23 at St. Joseph Warren Hospital; and July 8 and 9 and Aug. 5 and 6 at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.
Safe Sitter teaches boys and girls age 11 to 13 how to be ideal baby sitters. The two-day course covers basic first aid, rescue breathing, accident prevention, childcare tips, what to do if a child chokes and how and when to call for help.
For information or to register, call 330-480-3070.
Workshop offered for health at home
YOUNGSTOWN
Mercy Health Youngs-town, formerly Humility of Mary Health Partners, is offering a one-hour workshop, “Health at Home.”
Sessions are from 11 a.m. to noon and 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Youngstown Room at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, 1044 Belmont Ave.
The workshop includes an easy-to-use reference guide that provides information about more than 200 common health problems as well as tips on caring for yourself and your family, preventing illness and injury, and advice on when to seek medical attention.
The workshop and all materials are free, but reservations are required. Call 330-480-3070.
Health care wing open house
CANFIELD
The Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown will celebrate the renovation of the 50-plus-year-old health care wing with an open house from 1 to 3 p.m. July 12 at the Motherhouse, 4250 Shields Road.
Light refreshments will be served. Guests are asked to use the main Motherhouse entrance at the circle.
The health care wing is where nuns live when they are in need of assisted-living care, have chronic conditions or are recuperating from surgery.
The entire wing was gutted and the spaces reconfigured. Fixtures that could be reused went to Habitat for Humanity of Mahoning County Restore in Struthers.
The floor now has 10 bedrooms for long-term care, a physical therapy room and a solarium, a kitchen and dining area, and other aspects necessary for assisted-living care.
The previous health care, built in 1963, could no longer accommodate the physical and safety needs of sisters in long-term care.