One Health Ohio gets $1.5M grant

One Health Ohio gets $1.5M grant

YOUNGSTOWN

One Health Ohio has received a $1.5 million federal grant that will allow the organization to implement a service model for its patients to include medical, dental and behavioral-health services.

One Health Ohio has provided medical and dental services in Northeast Ohio for the past 28 years. It is based with a health center on Wick Avenue in Youngstown. It also has four health centers in Warren and one in Alliance.

“The need for mental- health services in the United States is at a critical point,” said U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of Howland, D-13th, who announced the grant. “We need to reduce the barriers to care and increase access to behavioral-health treatment, and I am glad that ONE Health Ohio is leading the charge.”

Match found for girl who needs liver

WARREN

After months of searching, a donor has been found for a Trumbull County foster child who is in desperate need of a new liver, according to 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner.

Marilyn Pape of Trumbull County Children Services told the TV station doctors confirmed that David Denovcheck of Niles is a match with Jamie, a little girl born with a condition that causes bile to remain in her liver.

The 4-year-old already had spent most of her life in and out of a hospital when she was admitted to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in January.

An online campaign was launched to help find Jamie a liver. Donors were required to have type O blood, be between age 18 and 55, have a body mass index of 30 or less and not be suffering from conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes or heart disease.

Facing drug charges after traffic stop

YOUNGSTOWN

Police say they found six doses of heroin on a man after he was pulled over making an illegal turn about 3:50 p.m. Wednesday on the North Side.

Reports said officers pulled over a car driven by Richard Zysk, 61, of North Meridian Road, at Belmont Avenue and the West Bound Service Road, and they immediately smelled a strong odor of marijuana.

Reports said Zysk was asked to step out of the car and was searched. Police found a bag of marijuana and the six doses of heroin in his coat, reports said.

Zysk was arrested on charges of possession of marijuana and possession of heroin and taken to the Mahoning County jail.

Roads closing for YMCA spin/run event

YOUNGSTOWN

These city streets will be closed for the YMCA’s Outdoor Spin/Memorial Run on Saturday between 7 a.m. and noon: Mahoning Avenue (Spring Common Bridge to Glenwood Avenue), Champion Street (East Federal Street to East Commerce Street) and Price Road (entering into Mill Creek Park).

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