Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Addiction help
YOUNGSTOWN
ONE Health Ohio soon will open addiction counseling and treatment centers across the Mahoning Valley, called ACT Center For Recovery, which will host substance-abuse resource meetings in September and November to educate the community on injectable Naltrexone (Vivitrol) as a viable treatment option for alcohol and opioid abuse.
ACT Center For Recovery’s substance abuse/addiction resource meetings will take place from 5 to 6 p.m. Thursday and Nov. 17 at the Youngstown Community Health Center’s Community Room, 726 Wick Ave., Youngstown.
Substance users, family, friends and the community are welcome to join the ACT team in discussing injectable Naltrexone as a viable treatment option for opioid and alcohol addiction. Call 844-652-8219 to reserve a seat.
YOA surgeons
CANFIELD
Youngstown Orthopedic Associates Ltd. recently added orthopedic surgeons Drs. Michael P. Miladore and K. Seth Kuwik to its surgery practice group.
A Mahoning Valley native and son of retired orthopedic surgeon Dr. Michael J. Miladore, Dr. Michael P. Miladore adds expertise in procedures of the hand and upper extremities. Doctor Kuwik adds expertise in knee injuries and total joint replacement.
Valedictorian of Canfield High School’s 2004 graduating class, Dr. Miladore graduated summa cum laude in 2006 from Youngstown State University with a bachelor of science degree and completed medical school at Northeast Ohio Medical University in 2010.
A native of Dayton, Dr. Kuwik attended Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn., and received his medicine degree in 2010 from the University of Toledo. He did an orthopedic surgery residency at the State University of New York at Buffalo, N.Y., and completed a fellowship in adult knee reconstruction at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
CPR course
LISBON
The Columbiana County Health Department, 7360 state Route 45, Lisbon, is offering a CPR course, taught by American Heart Association instructor Cecelia Hrovatic, RN, from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the health department.
The cost is $15 per person. There is no certification card for this course, which is ideal for anybody wanting to learn the live-saving technique. To register, call Krista at 330-424-0272, ext. 114.
Free cancer screening
WARREN
Man Up Mahoning Valley, NEO Urology, Mercy Health Foundation Mahoning Valley and Grace AME Church are offering free prostate cancer screenings Thursday for men 40 years old and older who are uninsured or underinsured from 5 to 7 p.m. at Grace AME Church, 1137 Main Ave. SW, Warren. Dinner will be provided to all men taking part.
Screenings consist of a digital rectal exam and a prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood draw. This event is open to the public, but registration is required. Call Mercy Health – Youngstown at 330-480-3405.
Nursing program
WARREN
Students and faculty of Kent State University at Trumbull’s nursing program began the school year with eight upgraded hospital beds donated by Trumbull Memorial Hospital, which marks a significant improvement for the campus nursing lab, said Kathy Dwinnells, Kent State Trumbull nursing program coordinator.
Kent State Trumbull offers a bachelor of science of nursing degree, which can be completed at the Trumbull Campus with students fulfilling their clinical requirements at local health care facilities.