Children’s Advocate nominees sought

Children’s Advocate nominees sought

BOARDMAN

Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley is accepting nominations for its Children’s Advocate Award which will be presented at the hospital’s Champions for Our Valley’s Children celebration on May 9 at The Lake Club in Poland.

The Children’s Advocate Award recognizes individuals and organizations throughout the Mahoning Valley who exhibit the spirit of caring and who are working to make a difference in the lives of the children of the community, said JoAnn Stock, senior director of development at Akron Children’s Mahoning Valley.

Nominees may be an individual, group of individuals or an organization, and may be self-nominated or nominated by another person. Nominees must reside in the Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley service area, which consists of Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties in northeast Ohio, and Mercer and Lawrence counties in western Pennsylvania.

For selection criteria information and for a nomination form that must be received by March 13, visit http://www.akronchildrens.org/championsforourvalleyschildren2017 or call 330-746-9122. Reservations for the Champions for our Valley’s Children celebration are $50 per person. Corporate sponsorships are available.

Grant awarded for infant sleep program

BOARDMAN

A $14,000 KeyBank Foundation grant was recently awarded to the Mahoning Valley Safe Sleep Program, an Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley initiative. Akron Children’s Chief Executive Officer Bill Considine and Dr. Elena Rossi and JoAnn Stock from the Akron Children’s Foundation accepted the donation.

The Mahoning Valley Safe Sleep Program, led by Akron Children’s, is a comprehensive campaign to make sleep safer for infants by reducing the number of sleep-related infant deaths and the overall infant mortality rates in Mahoning and Trumbull counties through a targeted education and community awareness campaign.

Health screenings

SALEM/COLUMBIANA

Salem Regional Medical Center’s (SRMC) Laboratory Services and its Columbiana Family Care Center, 750 E. Park Ave., in Columbiana, is offering comprehensive health screenings March 18. Screenings will be available by appointment-only at the Columbiana Family Care Center, a service of SRMC, for $40.

Comprehensive blood screenings can help to identify many health problems in their earliest stages, when they are most treatable, and may detect conditions such as high cholesterol, anemia and other disorders.

Participants may add a prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening to their comprehensive panel for an additional $10; or an HgA1C diabetes screening for an additional $25. A lipid profile only, which measures cholesterol levels and is included in the comprehensive screening, is also available for $10.

For an appointment for the comprehensive blood screening, call 330-482-3871.

ACE Kids Act health bill

WASHINGTON, D.C.

U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) have reintroduced their bipartisan bill, the Advancing Care for Exceptional (ACE) Kids Act to improve health outcomes and care coordination for children with complex medical conditions on Medicaid.

“When children have specialized health needs, they need specialized care – often times that means crossing state lines, which can be confusing for patients,” Brown said.

“This is a commonsense bill that will help to ensure sick kids have better access to quality care,” Portman said.

“By improving coordination among pediatric providers, we will begin to make life easier for these children and their families, the senators said.