Free safe-sleep event

Free safe-sleep event

BOARDMAN

Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley is offering a free safe-sleep event for pediatricians, family practice physicians, nurses, firefighters, police officers, EMS, day-care workers and children’s services groups. The conference will focus on the latest safe-sleep best practices and recommendations for infants.

The Mahoning Valley Safe Sleep Summit event is from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Akron Children’s Beeghly Campus Building C, 6505 Market St., Boardman, and from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday at the Davis Family YMCA, 45 McClurg Rd., Boardman. The same program is offered each day. To register and for information, call Jamie DeMain at 330-746-8741.

Speakers include Dr. Stacy Scott, program manager and consultant of Baby 1st Network; Michelle Edison, coordinator of Mahoning County Pathways HUB; and Nathaniel Jordan II, executive director of Fatherhood Matters Program, Columbus Kappa Foundation.

Re-verified as Level III Trauma Center

WARREN

Trumbull Memorial Hospital has been re-verified as a Level III Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons, signifying that TMH has consecutively demonstrated its ability to provide prompt treatment of traumatic injuries and other complex life-threatening conditions.

Trumbull Memorial sees more than 35,000 patients in the emergency room annually. Trauma verification is conducted by the Verification Review Committee, an ad hoc committee of the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons.

Clinical pastoral education program

YOUNGSTOWN

HealthCare Chaplaincy Network (HCCN) of New York City has partnered with Mercy Health – Youngstown in Ohio in advancing their Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) program by providing a CPE Certified Educator, as well as introducing HCCN’s CPE online program to the organization.

HCCN’s CPE program, a convenient and accessible path to further spiritual-care education, offers a standardized, cutting-edge approach to help future and current chaplains. The program includes online self-guided courses, authored by top experts; video conferencing for didactics, group process time, student presentations, one-on-one supervision by an ACPE Certified Educator, more commonly known as the CPE Supervisor.

Mercy Health – Youngstown has provided CPE since 2010. When its CPE educator retired, Chaplain Sandra Lucas, the Regional Director of Spiritual Care, searched for the most convenient and cost-effective way to continue the program. HCCN developed its program in 2016 and has since had more than 125 students complete units through CPE.org.

Distinctive from traditional teaching methods, HCCN’s online CPE course offers students the ability to gain much of the training from clinical hours at a local institution, while engaging in the educational hours from the comfort of a home or office.

Sports medicine

BOARDMAN

Akron Children’s Hospital has added sports medicine services to its Warren location, 5000 E. Market St., Suite 28, provided by Dr. Zaid Khatib, board-certified sports medicine physician. For information, call 330-746-8071. Clinic hours are Tuesdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Growing demand for sports medicine at Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley’s Beeghly campus drove the decision to add another provider in the region, said Shay Mulford, operations supervisor, sports medicine.

The most common types of sport-related injuries in children, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, are ankle and muscle strains, bone or growth plate injuries, repetitive motion injuries and heat-related illness.