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Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Weekend events around Dayton: May 2-4
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — This weekend will have multiple health fairs, a major art festival and an unofficial Star Wars holiday. 2 NEWS compiled a list of events happening around the Miami Valley. Community Health Fair and Mobile Mammogram Unit – 8 a.m., Ft. McKinley Church. Multiple local health organizations will be present and share information on services. Learn more. Clark County Public Safety Forces Day – 10:30 a.m., E. Columbia at N. Limestone. An event to honor Law Enforcement, EMS and Fire Service members who have died. Learn more. Brick City Mural Festival / Artebration – 5 p.m., Front Street Studio. All weekend, there will be art-based events, including over 80 artists painting. Learn more. Brick City Mural Festival to feature 80+ artists and live demos Child Car Seat Safety Event – 10 a.m., Trotwood Fire Department, Station 72. Parents/guardians can learn more about car seat safety and have their seats inspected. Learn more. Darke County Food Truck Rally, Craft Show and Monster Mash – 11 a.m., Great Darke County Fairgrounds. Enjoy a massive event celebrating spring with live music, car shows, a vendor market, and monster trucks. Learn more. Black Women's Health Initiative Conference – 11 a.m., St. Luke Baptist Church. The event will focus on health issues which affect Black women through education, spiritual connection and resources. Learn more. Versiti Dayton to giveaway free Kings Island tickets May the 4th screenings – 12:30, Plaza Theatre. The theater will be celebrating Star Wars all weekend, and the 501st Garrison Star Wars cosplay group will be present. Learn more. Miamisburg Civil War Weekend – Noon, 147 West Lock Street. Running on both Saturday and Sunday, the event is jam-packed with educational opportunities. Learn more. Annual Open House – 1 p.m., Germantown Historical Society. Enjoy a day of fun with face painting, art, and even chainsaw carving. Learn more. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
23-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Celebrate office heroes on National Administrative Professionals Day
CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – It's National Administrative Professionals Day, also known as Secretaries Day or Admin Day. Community Health Fair in Springfield to link residents to essential services National Administrative Professionals Day recognizes those who keep an office running smoothly every day such as secretaries, administrative assistants, receptionists, and other administrative support professionals, according to the National Day Calendar. But what exactly does an administrative professional do? Every day is full of different tasks and not one day is the same. Organization is key to their success, as well as their flexibility and ability to handle the unexpected, which makes them valuable to any business. Some of their responsibilities are managing appointments, drafting letters and memos, booking business trips, coordinating appointments, and planning meetings. They also compile data and research information. If you work with an administrative professional, one way you celebrate them on Wednesday is to give them a gift to show them how much you appreciate them such as flowers, gift cards, candy, or by providing them lunch. If you are considering becoming an administrative professional, these places are hiring. WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
23-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Community Health Fair in Springfield to link residents to essential services
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Local organizations are holding a Community Health Fair in Springfield at the Central Library Rotunda on State Street. Springfield Thunderbirds prepare for Calder Cup Playoffs The second annual Community Health Fair is free and is meant to connect people to much-needed health care. They're highlighting free, local services available for Springfield residents. Some of the participating organizations include the Gándara Center, Health Care for the Homeless, Greater Springfield Senior Services, Healthy Air Network, Massachusetts Behavioral Health Help Line, Narcotics Anonymous, Open Door Social Services, Pathways to Friendship, Square One, and Tapestry Health. Springfield Public School's Home City Families and Springfield City Library will also be co-hosting a Great Play Date for children and caregivers in the Children's Room at theCentral Library at the same time as the fair. The events will run from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. All visitors will receive a prize for visiting the fair, while supplies last. WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
12-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Community health fair at CityThrift offers vital medical resources
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Vital medical resources, supplies and screenings were offered to people in the Miami Valley at the CityThrift St. Vincent de Paul parking lot. The free Community Health Fair took place on Saturday, April 12, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. It was hosted by Wright State University's Boonshoft School of Medicine students in partnership with Premier Health. The event was designed to provide essential health services and promote healthy lifestyles. 'As medical students, we understand that there are several factors that impact one's health outside the health care setting, and we're looking to plant a seed in our community to promote well-being,' said Beth Ekeh, a third-year medical student at Wright State's Boonshoft School of Medicine. Dayton Children's, Wright State partnership broadens There were multiple educational activities for people of all ages. Highlights include those on hygiene, nutrition education, mental health, health care access, substance use and healthy lifestyles. Premier Community Health's mobile clinic provided three screenings for attendees – BMI, blood pressure and blood sugar. The Mobile Mammogram Coach offered mammogram screenings. Many WSU student organizations were present, including the Pediatric Interest Group, Student 2 Student, Teddy Bear Clinic, PsychSIGN, Emergency Medicine Interest Group, Hunger Alliance, Refugee Student Alliance and more. Community organizations present included Premier Community Health, The National Kidney Foundation, DJ Stan The Man, Preschool Promise, Dayton Recovery Project, Alcoholics Anonymous and more. Missed the fair? Another upcoming health event is the Greater Dayton Minority Health Month 2025 Expo on Saturday, April 19. It will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Main Branch of the Dayton Metro Library. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
19-03-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Bold and collaborative approaches are needed to solve Idaho's physician shortage
Student Doctor Shannon Hall (right) performs a physical exam screening during the 2024 community health fair held by the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine. (Courtesy of the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine) Idahoans are increasingly aware that Idaho ranks last in the nation in physicians per capita, and that our acute and growing shortage of physicians and limited access to medical care leads to sicker and less healthy populations. Today, 43 of 44 Idaho counties are designated health professions shortage areas. In 1972 the state of Idaho entered into a medical education partnership with the University of Washington School of Medicine. In more recent years, a similar partnership was established with the University of Utah. Combined, the Washington and Utah medical education programs educate 50 newly matriculated Idahoans per year. Public is invited to Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine's free Community Health Fair in Meridian Over the past several decades, hundreds of academically qualified Idahoans pursued their medical education and residency training out-of-state due to limited state-supported medical school seats and in state residency programs. Once they leave the state for these purposes, the probability of these student doctor-resident-physicians returning to Idaho is greatly reduced. In 2016, the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine was established in Meridian in partnership with Idaho State University. The college became fully accredited in 2022, and since its inception has matriculated 1,134 student-doctors, graduated 439 doctors and placed 99.6 percent of those graduates into Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education accredited residency programs here in Idaho and across the country. While Idaho ranks 50th in the nation in active physicians per capita, our state also ranks 47th in 'resident' physicians and 45th in total physicians who practice primary care. And while Idaho remains one of the fastest growing states in the nation, roughly one-third of our physician workforce are aged 60 or over and expected to retire in the coming years. Of special concern — and for a combination of reasons — roughly 25 percent of our OB-GYN physicians, and 4 of 9 (42 percent) Idaho perinatologists (experts in high-risk pregnancies) have retired or left Idaho since 2022. Today there is not a hospital, health system nor community in Idaho that is not actively and urgently seeking to recruit one or many physicians. Remarkably, Idaho would need an infusion of roughly 1,400 primary and specialty care physicians and surgeons just to reach the national average of physicians per capita. Incidentally, the average economic impact of a single Idaho physician is roughly $2 million per year. Indeed, Idaho's medical and health care providers have and always will be central not only to the good health and welfare — but also to the economic well-being of our communities. The ICOM board and leadership team maintain that Idaho needs an 'all-hands-on-deck' approach to both undergraduate (medical school) and post-graduate (residency) medical education. We believe the state needs both allopathic (MD) and osteopathic (DO) medical education providers, and that all players in this space must work together in a collaborative, collegial and professional way to address the acute and growing shortage of physicians locally and beyond. I warmly commend the governor, our Legislature and the State Board of Education for prioritizing not only the funding, but also the planning needed to orchestrate an urgent, bolder and more balanced approach to preparing future generations of Idaho physicians. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
